1986, Lop Nur Lake Basin, Xinjiang, China.

In front of a stone monument engraved with "Ruins of the Ancient City of Loulan", a black military jeep drove by quickly.

There were two people sitting in the car, one was a young man in his early thirties, and the other was a girl who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old. The two walked through this lifeless Gobi Desert, facing the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan, without stopping at all, as if this mysterious country that had died bizarrely more than a thousand years ago had no interest in them.

The man took the girl and didn't say a word, and the atmosphere of indifference lasted from the moment the two met.

Jia Yun ...... Is it?" the man finally couldn't bear it, and if he didn't talk about it for a long time, he would really be depressed. He tried to communicate with this girl, even if she wouldn't talk to him, even if she talked to herself, it was better than being as autistic as she was now.

"Officially introducing, my name is ......"

"There's no need. The girl finally opened her mouth, and the first thing she said was to shut him up.

This man named Bai Makui has never been treated so coldly, and the other party doesn't even want to know his name, he is too arrogant.

However, he is not the kind of person who will honestly shut up, but he caught the conversation, "Why is it not necessary? Do you think that we will not go back alive this time?"

"Yes. ”

This crisp answer surprised him, he didn't expect her to have no taboos.

Maybe she really didn't want to talk.

But he really wanted to tease her.

It's not that the two are familiar with each other, but that this Mr. White Horse has always been active, and he is also familiar.

"I heard that you were sent by UG, so are you from 'Fez'? I didn't think that I could become a special spirit at such a young age, it's amazing. ”

Although he patted himself on the back, Jia Yun still didn't appreciate it, and only took a long deep breath to express his impatience with him.

Bai Makui still said to himself, "Speaking of which, why does UG attach so much importance to Lop Nur because of the mysterious events that have happened in recent decades?"

Jia Yun rested his head on his arm, leaning against the window, and part of his body was sticking out of the window, as if he wanted to stay away from the man as much as possible, or wanted the whistling wind brought by the speed of the car to cover up his verbose words, in short, she was protesting with her whole body against this man's speech.

However, Bai Makui still expressed the four words "protest is ineffective" with practical actions, "There are many mysterious incidents in Lop Nur, such as the 'sand people' incident in the fifties and sixties. At that time, there were many armed forces in the area, which were self-replicating and moving quickly and unconsciously. The military cracked down several times, but to no avail. In the end, in the name of nuclear explosion tests, they were solved with nuclear bombs. ”

He looked at Jia Yun and said in a very exaggerated tone, "Is this what UG cares about? These sandfolk can't be spirits, right?"

The only thing that answered him was the whistling wind, but he was sure that she had heard what he said, because she was already scratching her head quietly, with a lot of anxiety.

Seeing her anxiety, Bai Makui's heart was secretly happy, and he said, "It seems that it is not? It was the disappearance of the botanist of the exploration team in 1980 six years ago? I heard that the exploration team found some kind of virus-carrying plants here, and some large lizards with abnormal body size." Strangely enough, though, one of the botanists in the team left a note and disappeared, and I remember his name was Penga......"

"Aren't you tired?"

Bai Makui secretly applauded, sighed that his treacherous plan had succeeded, and said with a treacherous face, "Don't be tired, I feel that you are quite tired, and you have no strength to speak." ”

"There's no need. ”

Again. Bai Makui closed his mouth for the first time, and suddenly slammed the steering wheel, and the car shook its tail violently, and the rear of the car changed to the front of the car, and drove rapidly in the direction from which it came.

This movement was completely beyond her expectations, and her head slammed unpreparedly on the door frame, and she said angrily, "What are you going to do?!"

"There's no need. ”

Listening to him learn to speak by himself, Jia Yun was stunned, "What?"

"I said we don't need to find someone who is not united and uncooperative to help us. As a principal, a teacher, and a team leader, I have the power to decide what kind of teammates my students need. His expression suddenly became very serious and full of majesty, "I'll send you back to UG and tell them that I don't need your help." ”

Jia Yun was in a complicated mood, a little crying and laughing, but more of a thick anxiety, "Okay." Headmaster Hakuba, what do you want?"

Bai Makui looked her up and down, and looked at her carefully for the first time since they met, only to realize that this was not an ordinary girl.

This should not be used to describe his feelings as "amazing", but more "amazing", and he wonders why human beings can be born so perfectly. The beautiful women he has seen, as long as he looks closely, he can find one or two regrettable shortcomings in each of them, but this girl has no shortcomings.

The first reaction when they met was that this girl was beautiful, but he didn't pay much attention to it. This time he looked closely, but suddenly he couldn't take his eyes off - he was looking for a fault, but he didn't.

If human beings are really "thrown" out of yellow mud by Nuwa with withered vines, then she must be a work of art made by Nuwa herself.

His gaze wandered over Jia Yun stupidly, and finally came back to his senses after meeting her annoyed gaze, his face instantly turned red, and he said embarrassedly, "I...... I don't want to do anything, but if you keep ignoring it like this, I don't think our cooperation will be pleasant. ”

She sighed deeply and reluctantly sat up straight, as if she had agreed to some very excessive request, "Turn around." ”

Her words were still brief, but Bai Makui could hear the compromise in her tone. As if his obscenity had finally brought the girl to her knees, she turned the car around again and drove towards her destination.

"Pisces Jade Pendant. As soon as the front of the car turned back, she said very consciously without waiting for Bai Makui to ask.

"The mysterious object discovered by the exploration team in 1980?" Bai Makui, who finally got a response, was stunned by this information before he could be happy, "It is said that the jade pendant has the mysterious power of replicating objects. Is it true that they managed to make a replica of a fish out of that thing, so they named it 'Pisces Jade Pendant'?"

"It's true. She said lightly.

"Then that sand people incident, will it have something to do with this Pisces jade pendant?"

"I don't know. ”

"I heard that they injected the replica with toxin and killed it, and seven hours later, the body also died. The same toxin is also found in the body of the body. Is this also true?"

"Yes. ”

"What the hell is this ......"

"The botanist who disappeared is someone from UG. ”

Bai Makui was surprised and said, "He is also a spirit being, why don't we know all this time?"

"Because this time your goal is to uncover the secrets behind this. Speaking of such a big confidential incident, her expression and tone were still very calm, "That jade pendant was actually found in an ultra-ancient ruin. UG suspects that the jade pendant is part of the ruins, and that the ruins may be a parascientific instrument with the ability to replicate projections. ”

Bai Makui swallowed in disbelief, "Then this time, we're going to ......"

"Go to the place where they found the jade pendant. Her gaze was fixed ahead, as if focused on somewhere far away, "Take a look, that ancient ruin." ”

......

Then they didn't speak again, this time it was Bai Makui who kept his mouth shut, and for a moment he could not digest such a large amount of information. When he took the initiative to invite Ying to investigate Lop Nur, he didn't expect it to be so complicated, who was that ruin—or rather, what kind of civilization left it?

Until the evening, the car drove to an extremely dense Yadan landscape, and it was impossible to move forward. The two abandoned the car and walked until nightfall, when they saw a bonfire rising under a towering Yadan cliff.

There were already six people waiting around the campfire, and when they saw them from afar, a figure ran towards them excitedly, and they could vaguely see that it was a young girl.

"Stop!" Suddenly, Jia Yun shouted.

"She's her own ......" Bai Makui just wanted to explain, but saw that she had conjured a long white knife out of nowhere, and rushed towards the girl with an arrow.

The girl was stunned for an instant, and before she could be afraid, Jia Yun had already stabbed the ground in front of her.

In front of her was a weed-like plant, and if Jia Yun hadn't shouted that voice, she would have stepped on it.

Jia Yun's knife pierced into the root of the plant, and suddenly picked out a huge black shadow from the ground, the girl screamed in surprise, and hit the flashlight, this black shadow was actually a big lizard, with the weed-like plant growing on its back!

The knife pierced the lizard's head, and it was already a dying twitch at this time, Jia Yun threw it to the side, and said coldly, "The plant on its back is poisonous." ”

Bai Makui looked at the lizard's corpse and muttered, "Virus-carrying plants...... Huge lizard...... Is this the thing?" he looked up at the students in front of the campfire, surprised to see that they were surrounded by plants like that, and yelled, "Get out of there!"

However, before they could reflect, those plants suddenly broke through the ground, and one by one huge lizards quickly approached the students, Bai Makui immediately bit his fingers, drew a strange pattern on his hand, and slapped his palm on the ground, and the ground immediately started from his palm, extending dense red lines towards the bonfire, like some unknown text, those lizards instantly jumped up from the ground, were thrown into the air, and fell heavily on the ground.

I couldn't kill them all, but I was stunned for a while, giving the students time to reflect.

Among the students, there was a middle-aged man who looked like a teacher, and he took out a piece of red paper with white lines drawn from his arms, and said in his mouth, "Enchantment Spell Seal, Knot!" The lines on the red paper immediately changed into another pattern, and then he threw the dagger from his arm, and cut the red paper in the air in half, and the two halves of the red paper turned into red crumbs, forming a protective shield with a red glow around them, and holding them inside like a dinner plate lid.

Under the dark night sky, the purple light gathered in the hands of the students to form a variety of weapons, some were long whips, some were swords, and some were Japanese swords, and they used their spiritual skills to defend against these lizards, but their numbers did not decrease.

"Take her away!"

Jia Yun's words made Bai Makui react, picked up the girl and jumped into the red barrier. Although these lizards will be bounced off when they hit the barrier, their numbers are gathering more and more, and although they have eliminated a lot with weapons formed by spiritual power, they can't withstand this tidal wave.

"Get down!" Jia Yun shouted.

Everyone didn't think about it, obediently lying on the ground, and suddenly countless white lights fell from the sky and fell around them, those white lights were like swords, and there was a rain of swords around them, and each white light sword falling on the ground was an explosion, and these countless sword rains fell and raised a lot of dust, and it didn't take three seconds for the dust to flood the entire protective shield, and the seven people inside were like being bombarded by rocket artillery, except for the dust, nothing could be seen, and the whole earth was shaking. This rain of swords lasted for a full minute, and it took a long time for the dust to gradually fall, and everyone was stunned when they could finally see everything outside.

They were originally lying on the flat ground, but at this time they were at the top of the pillar in the middle of a deep pit with a diameter of several tens of meters, which was at least seven or eight meters deep, and everyone was speechless in shock, even Bai Makui's mouth was wide open.

Everyone looked at Jia Yun in the distance, she had already collected the knife at this time, sat on a small dirt bag, and said lightly, "There are still five hours before dawn, you sleep for a while, I will watch." ”

The unbelievable sword rain just now seemed to be just a routine for her, and her blandness completely convinced everyone.

The surrounding lizards had long been frightened by the rain of swords like a steel storm and fled without a trace. Everyone looked at each other, and Bai Makui said helplessly, "Just listen to her, let's sleep for a while, and start acting at dawn." ”

Jia Yun looked at the stars in the sky, what had just happened did not cause a trace of fluctuation to her, she looked back at the cliff, and a trace of murderous aura flashed in her eyes.

"Our grievances will be settled tomorrow. ”