Chapter 40: The Ancient City of the Western Night
If it was Xue Yang in the past, he would find that today's Shirley Yang would often laugh, and in the past, Shirley Yang basically had a cold face.
Today, Shirley Young would have a quiet conversation with him, and before that, perhaps only after the exhaustion of last night, after the tribulation, would there be a brief confession, and this confession even had a certain purpose.
But today, the chat between Shirley Yang and Xue Yang was very calm from beginning to end, which was very different from the Shirley Yang that Xue Yang had seen in the past, but Xue Yang didn't notice this difference for a while.
Change always comes quietly, but this change requires a pair of eyes that are good at discovering and a calm heart.
The desert after the storm is a little different than before!
The whole desert has been filled with yellow sand after the storm, a long stretch of yellow sand in the distance, and even farther away are rolling hills, these hills are also made of all the yellow sand, here is the world of yellow sand, the sea of yellow sand, the continuous yellow sand meets the sky, I can't imagine where is the end of the sand!
After eating, everyone stepped on this world of yellow sand, and followed An Liman towards the ruins of the West Night City.
Xue Yang, Professor Chen and the others couldn't see the difference in routes, but they could roughly identify the direction through the sun, but An Liman walked forward decisively as if he could find an accurate route from the boundless sand.
The crowd walked on their camels for a long time, and the sand dunes under their feet suddenly became high and low, and the degree of undulation was very different, which was very different from the previous sand dune undulations.
An Liman said that under these dense sand dunes were ancient cities swallowed by yellow sand, he led everyone up to the highest big sand mountain, pointed to the south and told everyone that there was the intermediate station that was about to stop, the ruins of the ancient city of Xiye.
Everyone climbed the sand mountain, looked down, and saw the scenery below, and they all screamed.
In the middle of this vast desert lies a huge oasis, surrounded by rows of huge poplar trees, forming a rare and strange landscape: bounded by a road, on one side is an endless desert, which makes people despair, and on the other side is a scene of lush vegetation and life.
The combination of completely different natural landscapes is simply breathtaking!
West Night City is nestled in this oasis!
The ruins of the West Night City are quite well preserved, and the city is relatively late, until the end of the Tang Dynasty was destroyed in the war, since then, it has been abandoned to the present, at the beginning of the 19th century, German explorers discovered this place, most of the murals and statues and other artistic relics in the ruins, have been looted.
Only this empty city is left in the desert, the oldest ancient channel of the Peacock River, so far, because the city from ancient times to the present, there are underground water veins through all year round, here has become an important supply point for travelers in the desert.
No matter what the purpose of the desert is, if you want to continue to move forward or return in this great desert, you will inevitably replenish and repair in West Night City!
It's like a paradise in the desert, not only beautiful, but also gives people the possibility of regeneration.
Because of this peculiarity, West Night City is known as the 'City of Angels' in this desert.
The camel caravan descended the Great Sand Mountain and slowly advanced towards the oasis, An Liman discussed with everyone, and then entered the Black Desert after resting for two more days in the West Night City.
These days, the camels are frightened, and they are carrying a large number of supplies, and they need to take good care of their legs, while everyone is exhausted by the wind and sand of these days and the black sandstorm that preceded it.
Everyone needs to take a good rest to prepare for the next trip!
Everyone has no opinion on this, and they are all full of yearning for the next rest time.
On the sand mountain, it looked not far from the oasis, as if it was only seven or eight miles away, but it took three hours to actually walk up.
When the group arrived at the West Night City, the sky was already starting to get a little dark, and they looked up at the city wall in front of them.
The city wall is made of black stone, some places have been weathered, the damage is very serious, only the main city is quite solid, and the glorious weather of the year can still be vaguely seen, some oil well workers, expedition teams, geological exploration teams, passing by here, are staying in the main city, blocking the door with stones, so you don't have to worry about the attack of wolves.
There used to be a large number of wolves in the desert, but since the mid-70s, after the wolf fighting activities in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, the large-scale wolf packs have completely disappeared, leaving only a few groups of three or five, or lone wolves that act alone, are not a problem.
Everyone is well-equipped, and Xue Yang is a master of chemical strength who can compete with the tiger and leopard head-on, so everyone is not too worried.
A group of people gathered and entered the West Night City, found the largest main house to live in, lit a campfire, and ate and made tea.
An Liman took Hu Bayi to find the ancient well in the urban village that had been there for thousands of years, and then used a rope to hang a bucket to start drawing water from the well.
Eating and drinking, replenishing water, everyone performs their duties, and is busy.
In the evening, everyone soaked their feet in hot water to relieve their physical fatigue, and then everyone rested together.
In the middle of the night, everyone woke up one after another.
Xue Yang sat at the head of the city early, staring at the stars in the sky in the distance.
Maybe it's because he came to these heavenly worlds from the starry sky world, every time he sees the stars in the sky, he always gets a little distracted.
The moon in the sky was picturesque, the stars were like brocade, but the ground was silent, silent, until a footstep interrupted Xue Yang's thoughts.
"Why is Brother Xue here, don't you go down for some supper?"
It was Hu Bayi, this guy who looked a little haggard because of the wind and sand was completely energetic at this time.
"Lao Hu, what do you think these stars represent, and what secrets they hide. ”
Xue Yang stared at the twinkling stars in the sky, and while watching, he looked inexplicably thinking about something.
Hu Bayi looked at the stars in the distance, and then looked at Xue Yang, who was different from his impression of calm and natural, always calm, he knew that this man had many secrets in his heart, but he didn't know what these secrets were.
But even if he didn't understand, he knew that Xue Yang must have thought of something at this time, and what he thought of made his mood low.
Hu Bayi thought in his heart, and after a long time, Fang said slowly: "I don't know the secrets in the stars, but I know that there are not only many secrets in the stars in this world, but also many secrets in other places, and what we can explore is only a small part. ”
"Know what you want. ”
Xue Yang repeated Hu Bayi's sentence, he knew what he wanted, and he also knew how he should go in the future, but many times, he couldn't be completely free, and he also wanted to know some secrets about himself.
Xue Yang fell back into himself, while Hu Bayi, who was opposite him, stopped talking, took out a cigarette from his arms, lit it slowly, and began to swallow at the stars.