Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Strange Snake
Seeing that they were about to leave the valley, the camels refused to go any further, so they tied them to the side and walked over to see what was going on. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Hu Bayi took out a cold pyrotechnic for lighting, lit it up and threw it forward, illuminating a small section of the valley in front of him. On both sides were pitch-black rocks, the ground was thick yellow sand, and the empty mountains were lonely and there was not even a single grass, and nothing unusual was found.
Just when he lit up the second one, he saw Xia Yang striding forward, and when the others looked in that direction, they saw a person sitting on the ground in the distance.
A few people walked over to take a look, and saw that the man was wearing a white robe, with a sand turban on his head, and a backpack on his back, motionless, and it turned out to be a dead man.
Hu Bayi and the others were all a little surprised, it was not strange to encounter dead people or dried corpses in the desert, but this corpse was different. The deceased was a foreign man with a turban over his mouth and only two eyes exposed, staring at the sky, as if he was dead.
And judging by his appearance, the person will not be dead for too long, probably within a few days. But the strange thing is that the man's flesh is blue, and the exposed skin is only slightly dry, and under the light of the fireworks, there is a faint blue light.
Wang Fatzi wanted to go up and take a look clearly, but was stopped by Xia Yang, he had already reacted, this is the place where he encountered the black strange snake in the plot, and solemnly told Wang Fatzi that this person's death was too weird, and he must not approach it at will.
Shirley Yang suddenly said, "Look, there's another one over here!"
Hu Bayi was surprised, and threw out a few cold fireworks, illuminating the surroundings, and suddenly found more than one corpse, on the ground in front of him, there were two male corpses lying horizontally and vertically, plus the first one found, a total of four corpses.
The dead were dressed in the same way, and they died in the same way, all staring in horror and dying in a strange way. There were also several Soviet-style AK47s and some backpacks scattered on the ground.
He drew a sapper shovel as a weapon, walked over and picked up one of the rifles, and found that the bullet was loaded, and he wondered even more, who the hell were these?
Seeing that they were all in doubt, Xia Yang explained to them: "These should be the group of foreigners that An Liman brought into the desert before. ”
Hearing him say this, they immediately reacted and suddenly remembered the incident. And Hu Bayi still remembered that An Liman said that he brought a total of four foreigners, which means that there are exactly all here, and there are many of them.
Wang Fatzi carefully opened one of the backpacks and found that there were a lot of military explosives marked in Russian, plus those Soviet-style AK47s, which means that these four are very likely to be Soviets. It's just that I don't know why these old hairs, armed to the teeth, died in this valley for no apparent reason?
In any case, these people died so strangely and died so intensively, which shows that this is by no means a safe place, Hu Bayi hurriedly asked everyone to leave here, and asked Wang Fatzi to pick up the gun and the backpack filled with explosives before leaving, which may be used in the future.
Just when Wang Fatzi bent down to carry his backpack, a strange snake suddenly jumped out from under the corpse next to him, the scales of the snake body were shining, about thirty centimeters long, and there was a black flesh crown on the top of his head. This thing is extremely fast, just a blink of an eye, it swam in front of Wang Fatzi, and with a flick of the snake's body, it went straight to his front door!
Hu Bayi shouted to be careful! But he was far away, and he didn't have time to rescue at all, just when Wang Fatzi was about to be bitten, he saw a little Xia Yang spear next to him, and his strength penetrated through his body, and he penetrated the black snake on the tip of the spear.
Xia Yang has always been vigilant since he remembered this strange snake, and how could he let them hurt people. And he still remembered that even if this black snake was broken in two, it could still attack, and Hao Aiguo died because of this in the plot. With a flick of the gun, he threw the black snake to the ground, and at the same time, he quickly made up a shot in its head, smashing the snake's head to pieces, and a lot of inky black juice flowed out. No matter how strong the vitality of this strange snake is, it is impossible to come back to life.
After poking this strange snake to death, Xia Yang did not stop, and as soon as his body turned, the spear swung towards Hu Bayi behind him, and the tip of the spear passed through Hu Bayi's shoulder and face, killing another strange snake in the same way.
The remaining three people reacted at this time, it turned out that they didn't know when, Hu Bayi's shoulder also swam with such a strange snake! Fortunately, Xia Yang reacted quickly enough, otherwise he would definitely be bitten at such a close distance.
Wang Fatzi and Hu Bayi were both shocked into a cold sweat, and they finally understood how those foreigners died. The poison of this strange snake is so good, if it is bitten, the snake venom will flow all over the body along the blood in an instant, and it must be dead or alive!
Frightened, they didn't bother to thank them, and the ghost knew if there were any more strange snakes here, so they packed up their things and prepared to leave.
By this time the camels, perhaps sensing that there were no more vipers ahead of them, had calmed down from their restlessness, and they rode on their camels without any success, and hurried out of the dark Zagrama Valley.
After walking outside the mountain pass, Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi, who had lived for the rest of their lives, thanked Xia Yang, if it weren't for him, they would have to stay with the four old Maozi.
Xia Yang did not relax, but solemnly told them that this kind of strange snake may continue to appear in the future, so they must be very careful.
Shirley Yang also said that a colleague from National Geographic magazine had told her that there was a kind of black-eyed monster snake in the desert that was afraid of bright light, and that this might be the kind of snake that she had brought with her, and that she could try to deal with them with flashbangs next time.
Not long after leaving the mountain pass, a dark red crack opened in the distant sky, and the sun was finally rising again.
They all looked involuntarily to the east, only to see that the light slowly turned from dark red to rose, then to blood red, and finally turned into ten thousand golden rays, and the top of the arc of the sun came out, and at this moment, the boundless sea of sand seemed to have turned into gold in a furnace, a piece of gold.
In the midst of this golden molten desert, a huge city appeared in front of the four of them. Countless ruins, bricks, bricks, and stones, and countless towers in the city, the most prominent of which is a black stone tower that has been tilted, standing quietly in the middle of the city, exactly like the black and white photograph in the English explorer's notebook.
After 2,000 years, they finally found the remains of this exquisite ancient city in the deepest part of the desert.
The scale of this ancient city is enough to accommodate fifty or sixty thousand people, even if it was a famous city like Loulan back then, in its heyday, it was only one or two thousand inhabitants, and an army of more than 3,000 people, which could not be compared with the Elite Country. Unfortunately, the city has been largely ruined, buried in the yellow sand for more than a thousand years, and some parts are difficult to distinguish whether they are sand dunes or fortresses, and most of the towers have collapsed and weathered.
But even so, they can imagine how magnificent and majestic the exquisite ancient city was from the existing wheel corridor.
The distance from the mountain pass to the ancient city was very close, and after about ten minutes, they arrived at the city gate. The city gate had already collapsed, and the ditch in front of the city had also been filled with yellow sand, and the four of Xia Yang entered the city from the remnants of the city wall, and there was a dead silence in the ruins around them.
Wang Fatzi couldn't help but be disappointed, this was too far from what he had imagined before. The streets and houses in the city are either collapsed or dilapidated, and from a distance they seem to be okay, quite imposing, but when you look inside, there is nothing but sand and rotten wood and broken stones, and there is no treasure of gold and silver?
Legend has it that the ancient city was destroyed by the war, and the allied forces that rebelled against the rule of the Queen of the Absolute invaded the palace, and just as the battle was about to end, the Black Sandstorm buried the Kingdom of the Absolute Kingdom, along with the inhabitants and troops of the city, indiscriminately in the depths of the sand. It wasn't until the 19th century that the movement of the desert brought it back to light, and judging from the scene, it basically matches the legend.
In today's ancient city, there are no large buildings except for the sloping black tower, and not even a private house in Xiangyang does not exist, it is full of weathered earthen walls, so they can only move towards the black tower, hoping to find any clues from the heights.