Chapter 455: Loulan's Treasure (Part II)
After dinner. Everyone seemed to be very sleepy, and after talking to each other, they went back to their tents. Not long after Jefferson's student Wilson returned to his tent, he took out a set of blankets that were more than enough from his tent and handed them to the two Chinese who suddenly arrived. And point them out where it's appropriate to sleep.
Looking at the blanket in his hand, Long Jinbao smiled and asked Xu Changqing: "One thought can live, one thought can die!" Master, it seems that this foreigner boy has a good heart, when something happens later, will you help him?"
"You can do it yourself!" Xu Changqing was noncommittal, his eyes were always looking at the animal skin in his hand, if Jefferson saw it, he would definitely be surprised, because this animal skin was his animal skin map that showed the treasure of Gu Loulan. It's just that Xu Changqing's eyes are not looking at the map, but at the astrological patterns on the back of the animal skin, and he found that those patterns are eight or nine points similar to the Zhou Tian Xingchen map back then, and none of them were drawn later, they were born with zài.
Xu Changqing was no stranger to the aura of desolate beasts, and when he was just approaching the camp, he felt a very faint aura of desolate beasts from the eldest person in this expedition, so he cast a spell to take the beast skin map that contained the desolate beast aura on his body.
Xu Changqing also had some understanding of the types of ancient desolate beasts, but he didn't know much about the ancient desolate beasts that could be born with patterns into a mysterious array. Within the scope of his knowledge, most of these ancient desolate beasts were the strongest beasts comparable to the innate gods, such as the dragon horse and the turtle carrying the river map and Luoshu, such as the five-element peacock with a large five-element array with feathers, etc., but he had never heard of the desolate beast whose fur pattern could form the Zhou Tian Star Diagram.
Although this beast skin map contained no other power except for a trace of the breath of a wild beast, Xu Changqing believed that this beast skin was far from being as simple as it seemed on the surface. If someone followed the map on the front of the animal skin to find the treasure of the ancient Loulan kingdom, then what they would eventually encounter was definitely a trap leading to death, and the map that really led to the treasure of the ancient Loulan should be the Zhou Tian Xingchen pattern on the back in Xu Changqing's opinion.
Compared with the secular mortals, the treasures of the Guloulan Kingdom should be understood in more detail by the people in the cultivation world, especially those in the Immortal Buddha Authentic Sect, because the disappearance of the Guloulan Kingdom was entirely due to the consequences of the strife in the cultivation world affecting mortals. According to ancient records, the two cultivators who fought in the Loulan Kingdom were from the former Qin and Eastern Jin dynasties, and both were masters of the ancient law. One is the ancient scattered immortal barefoot immortal who moved mountains and seas, and the other is an ancient monk inherited from the ancient Kowloon Island, who is extremely good at plague cup. Both of them had to be said to shake the mountains, the ghosts and gods changed color, and finally both died, and their battle spread to the nearby ancient country of Loulan, while the plague fell, a Lop Nur and Peacock River, which were the water source of the ancient country, also dried up one after another, and finally made Loulan, an ancient country in the Western Regions, disappear into the sand.
Xu Changqing, who knew very well about the reasons for the disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, also thought that Lop Nur would become so abnormal on the way to Lop Nur, perhaps because the aftermath of the war had not disappeared. However, after thinking about it again, the earliest abnormal written record of Lop Nur should be in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not as strong as it is now, if it appeared in the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties and other dynasties where high-ranking monks were like springs. It is impossible that there are no written records of the spiritual world.
Just as Xu Changqing was pondering the secrets hidden in this beast skin map, the time had gradually passed to midnight, the people in the camp had fallen asleep, and Roger's men had gathered in Roger's tent one after another. Although Xu Changqing and the others suddenly appeared, this did not affect Roger's original plan, in his opinion, these two unarmed Huaxia people were very easy to deal with. Just as Roger ordered his men to deal with their respective targets, from the opposite one, a very terrible scream suddenly came from the expedition camp. The screams were as piercing as nails pushing against glass, making not only the awake tremble, but even those who were asleep from the effects of the drug were completely awake.
Everyone came out of the tent one after another, and compared to the confusion of others, Jefferson and Wilson, who had something on their minds, were much more sober and had weapons in their hands.
When he saw all the mercenaries coming out of Roger's tent, the expression on Jefferson's face became extremely gloomy, and his body moved towards the student Wilson, and the weapons in his hands were also tightened a lot. Seeing Jefferson's face and gaze, Roger understood that his intentions had been exposed, but it didn't matter, when he knew Wilson's high secret before dinner, he had already prepared, and all the bullets in Jefferson and Wilson's weapons were replaced with duds by him, and the matter was still under his control. However, what he was concerned about now was not whether to deal with Jefferson and the others and steal the map now, but what was going on in the camp opposite.
After a terrible scream just now, the camp on the opposite side immediately became silent again, because it was far away, it was impossible to see the current quiet situation of the camp opposite, and only a campfire could be vaguely seen shaking. Surrounded by the silence of the desert, the people became extremely nervous, and some tried to shout loudly to the other side, but there was no movement on the other side. Everyone thought of those strange legends in the Lop Nur area, and they couldn't help but worry in their hearts, and at this time, someone mentioned that Yì sent someone to take a look, but Roger rejected it, and the way he used was the gun in his hand.
"Roger, what do you want to do?" Seeing Roger do this, Jefferson's dark and wrinkled old face immediately turned red, and the muzzle of the gun in his hand was also aimed at Roger two steps forward, and he said excitedly.
"Mr. Professor, you already know what I'm going to do, so I'd better give me the map honestly, and I can spare your lives. Roger had seen a lot of strange things from his years of exploration, and this time he also felt that something similar was likely to happen in the camp opposite, and he didn't want to stay here any longer, so getting the map and riding away was his only thought.
"Delusional!" Before the old professor could answer, the student Wilson had already stepped forward first, pointed a gun at Roger and said, "Roger, you'd better not mess around!"
"Hehe!" Roger's expression, which was pointed at two guns, had no fearless expression, and the other subordinates had no intention of rescuing, just pointed their guns at the Jefferson students who were still a little dazed.
Seeing Roger and his men behaving like this, Jefferson and Wilson felt surprised and uneasy. Soon they thought of a possibility, so Jefferson immediately opened the revolver in his hand, and saw that the bullets in the axle were all used duds, and Wilson checked the same result. Seeing this scene, both of them knew that they had no way to fight Roger, so they both dropped their guns, and Jefferson said while digging into his pockets: "Mr. Roger, I hope you can keep your promise, and after you get something, you will let me and my students go." ”