The plan was to enter the desert after a day's rest in Shawopu, and now there was an assassination act, many people were injured, Xiao Ming was angry and killed all the killers who were captured, and ordered the whole army to rest in Shawopu for a few more days, waiting for the wounded to recover.

A few days later, the army marched towards the desert area, because the army rested well in the sand nest, and the fresh water was relatively well prepared this time, so the army's marching speed was quite fast at first, but Xiao Ming told everyone, don't be greedy for speed, or according to the plan, the daily march is controlled within twenty miles, and maintain good physical strength, and do a good job of preventing heatstroke.

The vastness of the desert really shocked Xiao Ming, the yellow sand is far from visible, and some typical landmarks are not visible, because the sand dunes here are moving, and you can see sand dunes of all shapes and sizes as far as the eye can see. The larger dune chains are impressively thirty to fifty meters high and several hundred meters wide, and the highest form of terrain formed by the wind is the pyramidal dunes, all of which are several hundred meters high.

Standing on the sand dunes and looking at the boundless Taklamakan under the vast sky, it can produce a strange and shocking power in the ethereal space, making everyone who faces this scene feel the insignificance of life's gains and losses.

Three days later, the army arrived at a dry riverbed, this is the legendary Peacock River, also known as: Nia tributary, Alia's road map is to go directly west along the riverbed, but as they walked, the river valley turned into a river valley and finally it turned out to be a canyon washed by the current, and this time was already the sixth day that Xiao Ming and they came in!

According to Alia's map, if you walk forward, you will see a black and white mountain, which is a very peculiar natural landscape, which is estimated to be formed by sedimentary rock and limestone together, and at the foot of the black and white mountain is the "golden city"!

However, after the troops went out of the river valley, they suddenly encountered a strong sandstorm, the yellow sand was filled with strong winds, and the flying sand and stones hung by the strong wind hit the people's bodies very painfully, it was simply dark, this storm was too violent, for more than 3,000 heavy armored cavalry, this kind of storm was lethal! To be on the safe side, Xiao Ming ordered his troops to retreat into the river valley.

But Arya was very happy, and he told everyone that the last time he and his brother went out of this valley, they were also encountered by a strong black storm, and the two of them escaped death, but after the storm stopped, they found the golden city.

So Xiao Ming decided to stay in the valley and wait for the storm to pass, but the storm hung for nearly five hours, until midnight, the wind slowly subsided, and everyone in the valley was covered with yellow dust and sand, but they had already covered the mouth and nose of the war horse with strips of cloth, otherwise the war horse would not be able to stand it.

Seeing that the wind had subsided, Xiao Ming excluded the scouts and slowly moved out of the valley, checking the situation around, before the scouts returned, the storm had also stopped, and the very bright moon rose in mid-air, and there was silence in all directions, and there was no sound in the entire desert, and everyone could only hear their heavy heartbeats and the snorts of war horses.

The scout came back to report that the wind outside had stopped, and that the legendary black and white mountain had also been discovered in the moonlight, Xiao Ming was shocked, so he decided to take advantage of the night to set off, now the visibility is so good, you don't need to light a torch to see the road, so the group of men and horses drove out of the river valley.

Under the bright moonlight, there is indeed a black and white mountain below the horizon, Xiao Ming took a look at the telescope, and confirmed the map, the map on Alya's back has been copied, otherwise it would be a bit too bad to always let the girls take off their clothes!

It seems that the target is ahead, Xiao Ming ordered to set off, as long as it is in the direction of the black and white mountain, it should not be wrong, the team of people and horses traveled for about less than an hour, and sure enough, after turning a hill, they saw a city in the distance, the small city was far away in the dark, and the city walls were generally buried in yellow sand.

Everyone finally arrived here, everyone's mood was different, and many people were excited and surprised! Ashleyjiang was trembling with excitement, only Arya was very sad, Xiao Ming knew that she remembered her brother, so he motioned to Alima to comfort her.

There are only simple streets in the whole city, which is very dead and silent, but it looks ghostly! But for a group like the army, which is very evil, it is completely possible to suppress the ghosts and gods, and Xiao Ming passed on the order. Several detachments were sent out to search, and everyone had not seen any gold all over the ground since they came in, but the legend of the Golden City had been circulating for so many years, and it was certainly not unfounded.

Xiao Ming also led a bunch of people and horses to follow Alya towards the center of the city, their goal was the palace of the royal city, but after walking in the city for half a day, it was basically gray houses and walls, how could it have the appearance of a golden city? Arya seemed to be lost herself, and stood there pondering, searching for her memories.

Xiao Ming asked, "Have you forgotten the road?" Did your brother really die in the palace? ”

Alya nodded, "It's been a long time, but I can't be mistaken, but it seems that the buildings here don't look like the ones I remember!" ”

Alima said: "Think slowly, don't worry! ”

Xiao Ming suddenly thought of a key question, and hurriedly asked, "Alya, how did your brother die?" This place is so desolate and secretive, could it be that the enemy is chasing after it? ”

Arya's face was suddenly full of horror and uneasiness, and her whole body suddenly began to tremble. Xiao Ming immediately felt very strange, he motioned for Alima to ask, Alima helped Arya to the side, asked softly, and comforted her.

After a while, Alima came back with an ugly face and told Xiao Ming that Arya's brother had died a strange death, and according to her, there might really be evil spirits in this city! Her brother was killed by a demon.

It's nonsense, but everyone can't find the palace here, and even Arya seems to be lost, which is a bit abnormal! Is there really something unclean here?

At this time, Arya was slowly searching in front of her! Suddenly she screamed! The screams at this time almost frightened everyone's hearts, Alima and the others hurriedly ran over, he put his arm around Arya's shoulders, and asked repeatedly, "What the hell is wrong?" ”

Arya trembled, pointed to the distance and said, "Yes...... Ghosts! That...... There's a dark shadow there that flashes and disappears! ”

Gu Xiaoliu, who went to investigate, came back and shook his head, obviously he didn't find anything, Xiao Ming felt that he couldn't go on such a blind search, who knew what was strange in this weird city, so he decided to rest in place and wait for dawn to talk.

When the morning glow was revealed on the horizon, and the first rays of sunlight were looking for the ancient city, Gu Xiaoliu went to pee, and when he came back, he shouted loudly to everyone, "The palace has been found, and there is the palace!" Following the direction he pointed, the sun was shining on the roof of a palace, and the golden light shimmered there was enough to indicate that it was the palace.

Now everyone is finally happy! When I got closer, I realized that the reason why I didn't find this place at night was because the whole palace, whether it was the roof tiles or the walls, was full of sand and dust, and if there was no sunlight, no one would know that this was the palace.

This palace has a typical Western Regions style, but it has the treasure roof of the Central Plains culture, the huge pillars are all pasted with gold leaf, but under closer inspection, it is found that it is brass, the whole palace is the structure of the cloister, with the arched door of the Western Regions building, and the three-story building that gradually rises should be the tallest building in the city.

The main hall was already dilapidated, there was nothing but the throne above the empty hall, and behind the hall was a long corridor, where there were some bones lying all over the place, some of them were still wearing tattered armor, probably the soldiers and guards here, I don't know how they died, after a storm, all this was hidden in the yellow sand.

I wonder where Arya's brother died? Alya signaled that she was still ahead, Xiao Ming suddenly felt an inexplicable uneasiness, he reminded everyone to pay attention to safety, and as Alya walked forward, Gu Xiaoliu came over and told Xiao Ming that the few palaces in the back found it again, and asked Xiao Ming to follow and take a look.

Xiao Ming instructed Alima to take care of Arya and follow Gu Xiaoliu to check, Gu Xiaoliu said that he found several places similar to showrooms, where there were indeed a lot of gold and silver utensils, but this should not be called a treasure, the reason why the Golden City is called the Golden City means that there should be a lot of gold here.

If it is such a simple gold and silver ware, then the treasure known as Yue's gold and the royal city of Khotan are too shabby! He ordered to continue to search for the location of the royal family's bedrooms and treasure troves, but at this moment, the entire palace suddenly resounded with a "Boom!" The loud noise.

Xiao Ming hurriedly ran to check, but found that the sound came from the end of the corridor, he took Guo Shouxin, Gu Xiaoliu hurriedly ran to where, but found that Wu Song and Alima escorted Aliya and retreated, and the three of them all looked panicked!

"What the hell is going on?"

"There's an enemy attack! It's Pang Wanchun, he's coming with us! ”

Everyone was shocked, Xiao Ming immediately ordered the tiger guards and soldiers to be transferred up, and formed several teams to search in this area, while Xiao Ming took more than a dozen people to continue to escort Alia to the place where the enemy was found.

There was a palace road that rotated downward, leading directly to the floor below the third floor, Xiao Ming and the others found a few white bones after they passed, but there was no trace of the man in black, and there was a terrifying atmosphere around them!

Arya finally led everyone to a place that looked like a palace gate, and suddenly she cried and walked to the corner, where there was a pair of white bones, and there were clothes on her body, but the flesh on her body had rotted and turned to ashes, this should be his brother's corpse, and everyone was silent, except Alima who accompanied her, no one dared to disturb Arya's grief.

Gu Xiaoliu suddenly exclaimed, "How can there be a big pit there?" ”

I saw that there was a well-like hole in the brick ground in front of the palace gate, and dust was rising. At this moment, suddenly a puff of black smoke rose, and then everywhere there was a "boom......! "The voice sounded"

Arya exclaimed, "Scorpion! ”

That's right, the desert black scorpions all over the ground fell from the sky, crawling everywhere with their teeth and claws, and everyone immediately retreated in a hurry, Xiao Ming shouted: "Hurry back, Alima take her away, this is a poisonous scorpion!" ”

"Boom ......!" A ghostly laugh came, and Arya screamed again!

"Xiao Ming! Xiao Ming! Why are you the ones who sabotage my plans every time? Why do you appear in everything that has anything to do with gold, are you the legendary gold worm? A hoarse voice rang out in the corridor.

"Pang Wanchun!" Xiao Mingli shouted: "You evil devil crooked! You can't run this time! ”

"Is it that you can't run, or am I?" Pang Wanchun said.

Xiao Ming looked around, it was really bad, all around was a piece of scorpion black pressing, and it had surrounded all of them with more than a dozen people! The tiger guards kicked off the scorpions that were close to them, which would attract more scorpions, and suddenly a person screamed and fell to the ground, but in an instant, the scorpions crawled all over his body, he kept rolling, shouting heartbreakingly, very painful!

Alima took out the liquor she had brought with her, took a sip, and squirted out, the scorpions squeaking and retreating! When Xiao Ming saw it, he shouted, "Burn it with fire oil!" Fast! All the tiger guards had fire oil for ignition, and they all took it out and sprinkled it on the scorpion group, Xiao Ming immediately struck a match and flicked it out, and the flames rose instantly, and the scorpions were burned so much that they squeaked and kept retreating.

Xiao Ming slowly pulled out his saber and said, "Pang Wanchun! Let's find out for ourselves about the two of us, right? Do you dare? ”