After they left, Uncle Quan and I set off to return to the Imperial Spirit Hall, walked to the bottom of the mountain, looked at the car with a flat tire, Uncle Quan felt distressed for a while, and said: "Forget it, sacrificing a car for a big event is worth it, it should be set off in a few days, and I don't know if I can drive in the future, so it's okay." ”

Uncle Quan and I walked to Nanping with our backpacks on our backs, ready to take a break and take the car back.

When I returned to the Imperial Spirit Hall, it was close to three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was very quiet along the way, and I always felt that there was something missing without Liu Yu.

When I walked to the door, I found Liu Yu sitting alone at the door of the Imperial Spirit Hall looking out in a daze, I pouted and smiled, and for the first time I found that he looked quite cute, but it seemed that there was a hurdle in my heart that I couldn't get over, and a stream of tears almost poured out.

Liu Yu didn't have any extra words, got up and limped over, not as innocent and lively as before, it looked dull and dull, Uncle Quan really didn't care, he threw the backpack on his back to Liu Yu, and strode into the Imperial Spirit Hall, I couldn't bear it, grabbed the backpack and helped Liu Yu to go inside, Liu Yu broke free from me, frowned, and said angrily: "Leave me alone!" I don't need any pity for this little injury! ”

I listened to him say this and pulled him in.

"You're not here, a member of the armed team has a message." Liu Yu said.

Uncle Quan turned his head and stopped, and asked, "What's the news?" ”

"Two days later, Dunhuang will meet, there is a new route, and it will not wait for the expiration." Liu Yu pointed to a file box in the corner.

"It's finally here......" Uncle Quan picked up the box and breathed a sigh of relief.

Uncle Quan took off his coat and quickly closed the door. I joked to myself: no longer do business in broad daylight? Is this going to be closed?

Uncle Quan was in a mess for a while, probably because of the urgency of time now, he quickly dumped the backpack containing the information collected from Nanping on the sofa, and then scattered all kinds of old pages and a few gadgets on the ground.

Uncle Quan tidied up as he spoke, he picked up the worn-out books, put them on the table and asked us both to get together, tidy up for a while, and then began to look for clues.

On the top is a history book on the archaeological research of the Western Regions, Uncle Quan said: "Forty years ago, there were two factions of tomb robbers, the north and the south, your uncle was the representative of the northern faction, at that time on the whole road was known to everyone, it can be described as the most glorious time, and it was at that time, all the elites of the northern faction and he disappeared overnight, as if the world evaporated, no one knew where they went, insiders said that he touched the big fight this time, to rob the large tombs, But the actual tomb robbery is just a cover-up. At the end of 1989, when I officially joined the Southern School, I learned some secrets that were not known in private at that time, and I can't be sure of all of them according to what I know, but I can be sure that this is a hot potato, and there are too many secrets to explain. ”

Uncle Quan casually flipped a few pages, and found that there was a very old photo in the book, Uncle Quan looked excited, I thought it was another family photo, so I looked closer, but found that it was a strange portrait painting, I looked at it for a long time and didn't see why.

I didn't understand what the picture meant, so I asked, "What is this?" ”

"You don't even know that?" Uncle Quan looked at me in surprise, "This is the Dunhuang Flying Sky Mural!" ”

I pretended to understand, and I said "oh", but I really hadn't heard of anything flying in the sky.

Uncle Quan opened the file box, took out a drawing inside and looked at it, and said: "We will leave tomorrow morning, it seems that our first stop is going to Gansu, here we will not stay longer, the time of three days is very tight, they already have reliable news, it seems that they have mastered most of the routes, if I guessed correctly, they have made a bloody investment this time, this time we went, and we will not be able to come back in a few years, you see, they dispatched all human resources." ”

Uncle Quan's fingers moved along the lines on the drawing, pointing to the places marked one after another, and said: "These are the meeting points of our detachments, and these places have local "personnel connections" in addition to our small detachments, and they know a lot of things, which will greatly help us find clues. ”

In this way, I also realized the importance of this matter, but I didn't expect that after my uncle left away forty years ago and disappeared for so long, these mysteries left behind would be re-excavated by our juniors.

The next morning, before the sun rose, I was woken up by the noise outside, and when I got up, I found that Uncle Quan had packed a cart of equipment, and it was Liu Yu who was carrying it with him, I couldn't help but widen my eyes, I couldn't believe everything I saw, I was still sulking and dragging my legs last night, and this morning I was actually jumping alive in front of my eyes.

Seeing that I was stunned at the door, Liu Yu deliberately walked over in a posture to return to normal, and handed over the spirit stone I gave him the night before.

"Thanks, didn't you put it next to my bed last night? I didn't expect this spirit stone to have healing effects, I held it in my hand, and a hot current rushed directly into my body, and I was sweating blood, I got up in fright and ran to the bathroom to wash, and found that my feet didn't hurt anymore, and everything was fine! It gestured in front of me.

I looked at his current state of vitality, and finally returned to normal, and I felt more comforted in my heart, he finally escaped the catastrophe of being "abandoned".

We packed our things and rushed to the train station to take the train from Jinan, Shandong Province to Jiuquan, Gansu Province, by which time the sun had fully risen.

In the car, Uncle Quan told us about his previous experience, and there were some things about my uncle, I listened to the nap, and I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I found that I had been bumpy in the car for six or seven hours, and it was already evening, and I saw that Uncle Quan and Liu Yu were already asleep, so I fell asleep again.

When I arrived at the station, it was late at night, and I looked at my watch, and it was almost 11 o'clock at night.

We followed Uncle Quan out of the train station, although there was still a market outside, but it still felt like the lights were blind, I saw Uncle Quan looking around as if he was looking for someone, is there anyone who came to pick us up?

Sure enough, we walked along the road for more than ten minutes, and a person came across the street, and Uncle Quan recognized it at a glance and went straight up.

"Uncle Quan..." The person on the other side looked weak, thin, his face was yellow, he was not tall, and his face was full of melancholy.

"Xiao Jiu? How did you get here? ”