"What do you say? Have you ever seen this phrase? Where have you seen it? Chen Ziyang couldn't believe his ears, such an obscure statement, Yang Lei actually said that he had seen it somewhere, this is really the sun coming out of the west.

"Don't worry, let me think about it." Yang Lei frowned, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath, and thought about it carefully.

"The star opens in the east, thousands of miles around the moon to the west, and the line of the star is a hundred miles to the sky. C-star first-line ...... C-star ......" Yang Lei muttered while smoking a cigarette. And Chen Ziyang leaned next to him, staring at him, hoping that Yang Lei's eyes would suddenly light up, and he shouted I remembered.

But after waiting for a long time, Chen Ziyang still didn't wait for the picture he expected, Yang Lei threw seven or eight cigarette butts in the carriage, but he still didn't have a clue. The whole carriage was filled with smoke from the cigarette he smoked, and Chen Ziyang sat in the carriage coughing vigorously.

"You think about it slowly, and tell me when you think about it, the smoke is too big here, I'll go out for a walk, you smoke less, and you won't let people sleep this night." After Chen Ziyang finished speaking, he got up and walked out of the carriage.

"Don't you know me, I like to smoke two puffs when I think about things, I don't have as much perseverance as you, and I can quit smoking, you go out and go back, be careful, it's windy outside, don't blow your branch-like arm off."

After coming to the outside of the carriage, Chen Ziyang took a few breaths of fresh air, don't look at this as a desert, but the quality of the air is still good, but now there is a breeze blowing, and the air is filled with a lot of sand smell.

Although it was already eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the whole camp was still brightly lit, and two large excavation equipment were rumbling there, and the excavation work never stopped. The two deep pits that had been dug up had been enlarged a lot, but there was nothing but sand and dirt, and the excavation work was still fruitless.

Instructor Liu and Ji Yoshiokao divided the entire team into three shifts, and the people in each shift worked for eight hours, resting the machines, after all, at this critical juncture, every minute is very important and must not be wasted.

And the busy scene in front of him reminded Chen Ziyang of when he was young. At that time, the iron ore mine in Dawalnut Town also adopted this three-shift method, and the equipment of the mine was roaring 24 hours a day. Thinking of this scene, Chen Ziyang sighed, it has only been a few years, and the scene when he was a child is still vivid, but he didn't expect that the iron mine in Dahetao Town has become what it is now.

Ten years ago, the price of refined iron powder produced by the iron ore mine in Walnut Town was 1,500 yuan a ton, but ten years later, the price of refined iron powder has been impacted to 500 yuan a ton, and this price is not even enough for the most basic mining cost, which is also the most fundamental reason why the big walnut iron mine has fallen to this point today.

Every time the blast furnace in the mine is opened, in the eyes of the workers, it is not how much iron can be smelted, nor how much steel can be smelted, but how much money will be paid. So later, the mine gradually reduced production, so that it stopped. Chen Ziyang has not seen such a scene of a bunch of people surrounding machinery and equipment at night like this, and they are busy at night. If it weren't for the slump in the mines, maybe I wouldn't have been involved in tomb robbing.

After sighing for a while, Chen Ziyang looked up at the sky, although the wind blew today, and the sand in the desert was blown up a lot, but the whole starry sky was still very beautiful and very bright. Looking at the starry sky, Chen Ziyang couldn't figure out which one was the star and which one was the star C.

So he looked into the distance, although the light was not good now, but under the reflection of the starry sky, he could still see the outline of the tall sand dunes in the distance. Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei have studied before, judging by the direction of the convoy and the time of travel, the location of the two people should be located in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang.

Unexpectedly, he ran from the easternmost part of the motherland to the westernmost part, and he also came to the largest desert in the motherland.

The area of the Taklamakan Desert is the largest in China, and the height of the sand dunes is also the highest, with the average height of the sand dunes being about 200 meters, and even the highest can reach more than 300 meters. After visually inspecting the height of the surrounding sand dunes, Chen Ziyang found that the sand dunes surrounding this place are very tall, estimated to be about 300 meters.

The whole sand dunes and the basin made Chen Ziyang feel that this place was very incongruous, as if the sand dunes were not standing on the ground, but as if the whole basin was sunken in the desert. Seeing this scene, Chen Ziyang thought of the green country buried by the wind and sand in the poem.

Could it be that this whole basin is the ancient country they are looking for? For some special reasons, this ancient country was not covered by wind and sand, but sunk into the desert entirely.

Chen Ziyang knew that this idea was his own delusion. Since this country can be called an ancient country, it was at least more than 1,000 years ago. At that time, the population of the ancient countries in the desert was actually very small. During the Tang Dynasty, China was the first city in history with a population of more than one million, and that city was the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

In the dynasties before the Tang Dynasty, the population was even smaller, especially in these ancient countries on the edge of the desert or in the desert, the population was even smaller. The scale of the ancient kingdoms in the desert is generally very small, even the ancient kingdom of Loulan, which is well known to women and children, and the ancient kingdom of Loulan was at its peak, with an army of only 3,000 people, not to mention some other small desert countries.

There are very few historical records left in these countries, but from various indications, it can be inferred that although these ancient countries on the edge of the desert are called countries, in fact, a country is just a city, and the average number of ancient countries is only a few hundred households, and the population is very small, similar to the size of a larger village now.

In this case, the area of this so-called ancient country should not be very large, and it is impossible for the entire basin to be the site of this country. So it is really very difficult to find the ruins of the ancient kingdom in this place, especially without any exact clues.

After looking at the surrounding scenes, Chen Ziyang felt that his brain was much clearer, but there was still no progress on the location of this ancient ruin, and the temperature in the desert at night was very low, Chen Ziyang felt that he was a little cold, and after putting up his collar, he turned around and returned to the carriage.

Yang Lei was still sitting in the inside of the carriage, smoking non-stop, and the whole carriage was smoked by him like a fairyland on earth. Lifting the corner of the canvas, Chen Ziyang was almost pushed by the second-hand smoke rushing to his face.

After cursing Yang Lei a few words, Chen Ziyang lifted the canvas of the carriage and released the cigarettes in the carriage, so that the carriage could barely enter the people. In this way, in the smell of smoke in the full carriage, the two people fell asleep in a drowsy.

Early the next morning, Chen Ziyang was woken up by a strange sound of "poof". Sleepy-eyed, he looked up and saw that the corner of the canvas of the carriage was being blown by the strong wind, constantly beating the side wall of the carriage, making this popping sound, and every time the canvas of the carriage was lifted, some sand would blow in.

At the rear of the carriage, there is a row of snaps under the two canvases, which can be fastened directly onto the carriage and play the role of closing the canvas. Every night when he sleeps, Chen Ziyang will buckle these hidden buttons, so as to ensure the temperature in the carriage. But I don't know when it started, but the wind speed outside actually increased, and the snap button on the corner of the canvas had been blown open.

Yang Lei beside him was still asleep, and his snoring was earth-shattering. Chen Ziyang wanted to get up and take a look at the situation outside, but after he moved a few times, he found that he didn't have the slightest strength.

may be because of the excessive blood loss before, Chen Ziyang will feel weak after cooling down at night, so he had to kick Yang Lei in his sleep to wake him up and let him see what is going on outside.

After rubbing his eyes, Yang Lei stuck his head out of the canvas of the carriage, and then he fell backwards violently, while spitting out the sand in his mouth. At this time, Chen Ziyang found that in just such a second, Yang Lei's face was already covered with a layer of yellow fine sand.

"Phew...... Bah...... The wind outside was so strong that I couldn't see anything clearly, and my eyes were in the sand. Yang Lei said to Chen Ziyang while spitting out the sand in his mouth.

"There's windproof glasses over there, you put them on and go out and see what's going on. If there is a sandstorm, we will be in danger. ”

"Don't worry, if it's really a sandstorm, our carriage would have been swept away a long time ago." Yang Lei was very unhappy to be woken up from his sleep, although he pulled a long face, very dissatisfied with Chen Ziyang's attitude of waking him up, but he still put on windproof glasses and got out of the carriage.

After arguing with Yang Lei for a few words and moving for a while, Chen Ziyang felt that he had regained some strength, so he reluctantly climbed to the back of the carriage and buckled the canvas that Yang Lei had lifted again.

After waiting for about an hour, Yang Lei returned to the carriage in disgrace. As soon as he entered the carriage, he began to curse and shake off the sand from his body and head. Chen Ziyang saw that Yang Lei's hair had turned yellow, and after Yang Lei took off his glasses, Chen Ziyang found that the place on Yang Lei's face that was covered by windproof glasses before was obviously different from the color of other exposed skin, and it seemed that the wind and sand outside should be very large.

"I just asked someone, and the weather forecast said that there would be wind today, but it may be that the weather forecast is not very accurate, and the wind speed is much stronger than the forecast, but it is not yet the level of a sandstorm.

The people outside just now were busy for a long time, and they reinforced the supplies and everything to prevent them from being blown away by the strong wind. When they were done, they all hid in the carriage to avoid the wind, saying that they would wait for the wind to stop before they came out to do their work. This unfortunate wind came at an inopportune time. After hearing that there was no danger in this gale, Chen Ziyang was also relieved.

"By the way, Er Yang, I encountered a strange thing just now. There was a lot of sand outside, and I couldn't see a person from a meter away, and as I was groping my way forward, someone suddenly bumped into me.

Hey, I'm a grumpy, I want to turn around and scold him, but this person walks very fast, plus the vision is not good, I just glance at his back and can't see anyone. But I think this person's back is very familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere. ”

"You see the people in the convoy almost every day, what's so strange about seeing a familiar back, you have that idle time, it's better to think carefully about where you have seen the sentence of the first line of the stars."

"No, the person I'm talking about doesn't seem to be someone in the convoy, but an acquaintance we met before. But the time was too short, I just had this familiar feeling, and the person was gone. Yang Lei said while touching the back of his head, looking at his posture, Chen Ziyang knew that he was thinking about it carefully.

"Don't think about it, this is the depths of the desert, it is impossible for someone we are familiar with to come here, if it is really the reinforcements found by the umbrella stone marshal, they will not be able to walk in this camp so blatantly. And with the size of this desert, and the fact that they don't have any whereabouts of the two of us, I think it's very unlikely that the person you meet is an acquaintance of ours. ”

Nodding, Yang Lei agreed with Chen Ziyang's opinion, and then stopped thinking about the familiar back. Although the wind and sand outside were very large, the carriage was still relatively well sealed, even if a small amount of wind and sand blew in from the cracks in the canvas, it did not have much impact on the two people, so Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei hid in this quiet corner in the wind and sand, carefully studying the poems on the paper.

The wind didn't last very long, and the gale basically stopped in the afternoon, so Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei got out of the stuffy carriage and went outside to see the situation.

It is said that the wind is not strong, but relatively speaking, this kind of wind can be regarded as a strong wind in the city, but it is really insignificant in the desert. The wind blew a lot of sand, and the two men saw that almost all the tires of the vehicles were buried. The people in the convoy were busy, clearing the sand from the vehicles and equipment.

At this moment, suddenly someone shouted loudly from a distance. Although he was far away and couldn't hear what this person was shouting, from the tone of this person's shouting, Chen Ziyang could hear that something big must have happened, so the two of them hurriedly walked towards the other end of the camp.

The place where the sound came from was the excavation site of an excavation equipment, and after walking nearby, the eyes of the two people widened, and an excavation equipment that had been parked there before was gone.

(End of chapter)