When he opened his eyes in a daze, Chen Ziyang felt that the light around him was very strong, and this strong light pierced him and made him unable to open his eyes.

"Am I alive?" Feeling a burst of warmth from his body, Chen Ziyang felt that this time he might have escaped death again, and the pressure from the **** made him know that he was lying on the ground now.

Because he had been in the dark environment for too long before, and the light around him was too strong, Chen Ziyang couldn't open his eyes for the time being. He felt every muscle in his body aching, especially his right arm, which was trembling slightly, and he didn't have any strength at all.

After waiting for a while, Chen Ziyang slowly opened his eyes. The first thing that caught his eye was still the half-human-high stone pillar and the round stone plate in front of him, Chen Ziyang judged from these two items that he might not have been swept into the gust of wind, it seemed that he should still be in that deep well, but where did the surrounding light come from?

After trying several times and couldn't stand up, he had to give up this idea, the muscles in his body were too painful, and he didn't have any strength, Chen Ziyang's strength was all used to fight against the gust of wind and the rope around his waist, and now he was really powerless.

Gritting his teeth, Chen Ziyang slowly turned around, rotated his body ninety degrees, and lay on his side on the round stone plate to look around. At this look, Chen Ziyang's mouth opened wide in surprise, and even he forgot the soreness in his body.

The surrounding scene is truly astounding! The sun hung high in the sky, sprinkled with warm sunlight, and pieces of ruins appeared in Chen Ziyang's field of vision. At this time, he found that the yellow sand that originally surrounded this stone pillar and stone platform was all gone, and was replaced by a ruin standing on the yellow sand, which was not small in area, almost covering Chen Ziyang's entire field of vision.

"Am I crossing over? Or was I blown somewhere by the tornado before, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz? ”

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly lowered his head and looked at the round stone plate in front of him, and then he raised his head again and looked carefully at the stone pillar in front of him.

Chen Ziyang had seen this stone pillar and stone plate many times before, and he remembered the patterns on it clearly, and at this time, the stone pillar and stone plate in front of him were exactly the same as those in his memory, and the diamond that turned white was still placed directly above the stone pillar.

"That's right! The stone pillar is still the same stone pillar, and the stone plate is still the same stone plate. I didn't leave. Because he was so surprised, Chen Ziyang even felt that all this in front of him was probably his own hallucination. So he closed his eyes violently, shook his head vigorously, and slowly opened his eyes again, but what he saw was still a large piece of ruins.

In the shock, Chen Ziyang even forgot the pain all over his body, and he used his strength that he didn't know where to come from, and slowly stood up with difficulty holding on to the stone pillar. After leaning against the stone pillar and stabilizing his figure, Chen Ziyang looked around.

The area of the entire ruin is very large, not only the one I saw before, but also the ruins surrounding the stone pillars and stone platforms, and it seems that this stone pillar and stone platform are located in the middle of this ruin.

"Is this a mirage? Nor should it be, mirages usually appear in the middle of the desert, or in the distance close to the ground, and I have never heard of a mirage appearing dozens of meters below the sand. ”

The strange Chen Ziyang raised his heavy legs and was about to step down the stone platform, but just as he was taking a step, suddenly another pulling force came from his waist.

This pulling force frightened Chen Ziyang, and the familiar feeling made him think that he was still in the eye of the wind, and the rope tied around his waist still wanted to pull him into the wind. Is it true that I am hallucinating because I am too tired?

After feeling this pulling force, Chen Ziyang stopped violently, and then he found that as his movements stopped, the pulling force from his waist also disappeared quickly. Lowering his head, he saw that the rope that was tied to his waist before was still tied there, and Chen Zi knew that the source of the pulling force was still this rope.

Turning his head in the direction of the other end of the rope, Chen Ziyang saw a long rope stretching out from his waist and stretching forward. The rope was blocked on the other side of the wall after crossing two broken walls, and it was impossible to see what was on the other end of the rope.

After knowing that the pulling force just now was only because the rope was still pulling him, Chen Ziyang wiped the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, and slowly pulled the rope with his right hand.

With Chen Ziyang's movements, the rope was slowly pulled, and from the far direction of the other end of the rope, there was the sound of an object rubbing on the ground.

It wasn't until Chen Ziyang pulled the rope closer that he figured out what had happened in the wind before. At the other end of the rope was a pulley tied to the same pulley that had been placed on the bracket to lower oneself to the bottom of the deep well.

It seems that because of the previous strong wind, the bracket above the deep well collapsed, but this pulley is still tied to the other end of the rope, and because the wind is too strong, the pulley on the rope is blown high by the wind, or the rope itself is swept into the wind, so there is a huge pulling force from the rope, and he has been fighting against this pulley.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang shook his head with a wry smile, he couldn't imagine that the pulley installed for his own safety almost killed himself.

At this time, he noticed that there was a lot of loess on the pulley, which made Chen Ziyang a little incomprehensible. This pulley has been in a strong wind before, even if there is any loess sticking to the top of the pulley, it should have been blown away by the strong wind, and it should not be stuck to it now.

When this pulley was installed before, Chen Ziyang saw that this pulley was brand new, and there was no loess sticking on it, and there was only yellow sand around the place where the pulley was placed, and there was no such sticky soil.

After squatting down, Chen Ziyang pressed the loess on the pulley with his fingers. With a little force, the loess lump falls off the pulley, revealing the bright surface of the pulley. In this way, the loess has just been glued to the pulley.

Chen Ziyang hurriedly raised his head and looked in the direction where the pulley had been pulled before. The rope that had just been connected to the pulley crossed two earthen walls, and the loess sticking to the pulley was exactly the same color as the soil on the earthen wall, and at the same time, he saw that there was a clear dent where the rope had just touched the earthen wall.

This indentation should have been made when the pulley was pulled over before, which means that the loess on the pulley is the soil on the previous earthen wall. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang knew that the ruins around him were not a mirage at all, nor was it his hallucination, but a real existence.

After thinking about it for a long time, he could only think of a reasonable explanation. The ruins and the stone platform under his feet were indeed buried dozens of meters below the sand surface, and they were buried in the yellow sand.

However, because he activated the mechanism of this ancient city, he blew endless winds from the bottom of the stone platform, and these winds were beyond his imagination, and the wind blew away all the sand and soil dozens of meters above the ruins, so that this ruin was rediscovered.

Although Chen Ziyang didn't think that there would be a strong wind that could blow away a layer of sand dozens of meters thick, there were too many strange things caused by this diamond, and at the same time, he knew that the diamond had some special effects on the soil, or that this diamond would release some special ability after touching the sand, so it was not strange to see this kind of strange thing.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang looked far away, and he saw that the sand and soil at the edge of this ruin showed a slight upward slope. These slopes extend to the vicinity of those tall sand dunes in the far distance.

The bottom of the basin, which is surrounded by tall sand dunes, is now not flat, but resembles a large iron pot. The location of the ruins is the most central part of the basin, and it is also the lowest place in this "big iron pot".

This discovery verified Chen's previous guess. It seems that his guess is correct, it is indeed the big and strange wind that blew away all the sand that covered the ruins before, otherwise the surrounding sand would not have taken on this shape.

After looking around the entire basin, Chen Ziyang suddenly realized that something was wrong. There wasn't even a living person in the place where I could see. What about Yang Lei? What about the fleet? What about Instructor Liu?

"Leizi, are you there?" Chen Ziyang shouted this sentence loudly in different directions, but no matter how loudly he shouted, there was no response at all.

Turning around and picking up the white diamond, Chen Ziyang carefully put the diamond into his pocket, this diamond is the key to the entire ancient country, but it must not be lost.

After putting away the diamond and cutting the rope tied around his waist with the dagger he carried with him, Chen Ziyang dragged his heavy legs, stepped down the stone platform with difficulty, and walked forward in a random direction, after walking more than a dozen steps, he turned around and looked at the stone platform he had inspired before from a distance.

The stone platform is located in the center of a small square, because there are no broken earthen walls around the stone platform, and the surrounding area is very empty. By this time, the stone platform had completely fallen silent, and the stone pillars and the notches on the stone platform no longer glowed red.

After remembering the location of the stone platform, Chen Ziyang took the stone platform as the center and slowly searched the entire ruins, hoping to find Yang Lei and others.

In this way, he walked and shouted until his strength was exhausted again, until his voice was hoarse and he could no longer make a sound, Chen Ziyang still did not find a living person.

After feeling that he was already weak and weak, Chen Ziyang reluctantly found a stone wall, sat down with his back against the wall, and after drinking a few sips of water, he carefully recalled the search process just now.

The area of this ruin is not too large, only about a kilometer in radius. I had searched about a quarter of the entire area of the ruins, and the remaining walls of the ruins were not too high, and the highest was only up to my shoulders.

From the style of these ruins, it can be seen that these ruins should have been made of loess one after another. Remembering the gust of wind before, Chen Ziyang was surprised by the solidity of these walls.

Under such strong wind speeds, the walls of these ruins can still maintain this height, and they have not all collapsed, it seems that these walls are very strong, and it is not known how the ancient people who lived here built the houses.

Although the area of this ruin is not too large, it is necessary to compare it with when. If you look at it now, the area of this ruin is only a large village, but in the Western Han Dynasty, this scale is a bit incredible. Especially since this ruin is still in the middle of the desert, the scale is even more staggering.

In the entire ruins, except for the earthen wall, Chen Ziyang did not find anything. This is understandable, after all, the previous gust of wind was so strong that even some small objects buried in the ruins should have been blown away by this gust of wind.

Then Chen Ziyang turned his mind back to Yang Lei, and he didn't know what happened to those people who were above the deep well before, in such a strong wind, it should be difficult for these people to survive.

Although Chen Ziyang knew that Yang Lei and the others were likely to be more auspicious, he still had a trace of luck. Since he can survive, then Yang Lei also has the possibility of surviving. This kid is very smart, and he shouldn't just let himself become a white bone in the yellow sand.

After resting for a while and regaining his strength, Chen Ziyang decided to continue searching the area of this ruin, and strive to walk through the entire ruins before sunset. If you want to see people in life, you must see corpses in death, and you must find Yang Lei.

For the rest of the day, Chen Ziyang walked almost all over the ruins, although his footprints did not cover every corner of the ruins, but he had a rough look at the entire ruins, and there was nothing here except for the earthen wall and the yellow sand under the earthen wall.

After sunset, the temperature in the desert plummeted, and Chen Ziyang found a small space crammed into two broken walls, which he used as his place to spend the night.

He wanted to build a bonfire to keep warm, but Chen Ziyang found that he couldn't find wood to make a fire, so he could only cover his body with yellow sand. In this way, Chen Ziyang, who was lying in the sandbed, looked up at the starry sky and pondered.

What if I can't find Yang Lei? What should I do next? Is Yang Lei really more auspicious? The food in the backpack is only enough to eat for a day or two, how long can I last it? Looking at the bright starry sky, Chen Ziyang only had worries in his heart.

(End of chapter)