Sand Sea Magic Nest 14

"Magnetic Mountain?" In the past two days, my mechanical watch has either stopped or gone fast and slow. I thought the cheap watch was of poor quality and broke in the desert. Could it be that we are near those two Magnetic Mountains?

An Liman also remembered that he had heard from people that in the hinterland of the Black Desert, there were two sacred mountains of Zagrama, one red and one white. Legend has it that they were the two sacred mountains where the sages were buried.

Miss Guo added: "If there are really two mountains like this in the desert, then the Ziduan River may be underground and intercepted by Cishan. The distance from the ground is too deep, so we can't find it. I think we can You shouldn¡¯t focus all your attention on looking for traces of the underground river. If the legend and the British explorer are right, Cishan should be nearby. Mr. Hu, I will use your Tianxing Feng Shui skills again tonight. Oh, don¡¯t forget, as we said before, if you find Jingjue Ancient City, you will be paid double the reward.¡±

I didn't have the confidence to find Jingjue City from the beginning. After hearing what she said, I had to try at night. If I could find Nazagrama Mountain, my reward would be increased to 20,000 beautiful sons. If we couldn't find it, we would have to fight. Back home.

To be honest, I can¡¯t tell if I¡¯m looking forward to finding the ancient city of Jingjue. After hearing the story of Queen Jingjue, a mysterious and alluring image lingers in my mind. Deep in the desert, it seems like There is an invisible magic that attracts me. I wonder if Professor Qiao, Miss Guo, and the expedition team who never returned have the same feeling as me.

The day was extremely long. I wanted to shoot the sun out of the sky with a gun. I dug a sand pit very deep, but I couldn't feel any cold air.

Although there is a thick canvas on the pit, people are hiding in the shadows, and their bodies are lying in the sand, it still feels like being placed in an oven. Ye Yixin, who has a thin body, may have been confused by the sun, and she fell asleep and talked about it. lies.

Everyone was worried that she had a high fever, so they touched her forehead with their hands. It was as hot as sand. They couldn't tell whether she had a high fever or not. No matter how hard they pushed her, she didn't wake up.

We still had some water, enough for about five days, and two bags of yogurt soup left, which were reserved for the last moment. I had nothing to give up at this time, so I took out one bag and asked Miss Guo to feed her a drink. After a few sips, I gave her some more medicine.

After Ye Yixin drank the medicine, she gradually calmed down, but she was still unconscious. She was probably suffering from acute dehydration, which was troublesome. I told Professor Understanding and others about the situation the archaeological team was facing now.

There are nothing more than two roads. One road is to start back tonight. On the way back, in the last few days, you have to eat camel meat, drink salty sandwozi water, and drive No. 11. Even if you do this, you can't guarantee Ye Yixin's safety. life safety.

The other way is to bite the bullet and continue looking for Jingjue City. If there is a water source in the city, her life will be saved.

Professor Qiao said that the difficulties we face are great. Although archeology requires dedication, Ye Yixin is so young, and we must be responsible for her life. Although the first route is safe, it does not have enough clean water, and the way back will be very difficult. difficult. The second route is more risky, but we have already arrived near Zagrama, and we are 60% sure to find Jingjue. These ancient cities should all have underground water veins, but two thousand years have passed, and it remains unclear whether the water veins have dried up and been diverted. It can be known. Where to go now, let us all share our opinions.

The monkey first said: "I have lost two full pounds around my waist. If we go further into the desert, you can just call me the thin man from now on. I suggest that we don't stop for a moment. As soon as the sun goes down, we Go back, maybe you can still have half your life left."

Hao Aiguo and Satipeng were relatively stable and agreed to go back.

In contrast, more people think that although the method of finding Jingjue City is risky, it is worth a try. After all, everyone has paid so much hardship and price to get to this point. I really don¡¯t want to waste all the efforts, and I also hope that Finding clean water in the ruins of the ancient city saved Ye Yixin's life. She drank salty Shawozi water on the way back. Even a healthy person could do it. Besides, she was so seriously ill. Going back would be tantamount to her death sentence.

Miss Guo, Chu Jian, and the professor and I all hold the same view. Except for Ye Yixin who was unconscious, only old man An Liman remained silent. Everyone's eyes were focused on his face.

If his point of view is to go back, then we are exactly four against four, but An Liman is a guide, and his decision in this matter is very weighty.

I said to old man An Liman: "Old man, you have to think carefully before speaking. Your words are related to Ye Yixin's life. What do you think we should do now?"

Old man An Liman held his pipe in his mouth, squinted his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky, and said, "Of course I obey Hu Da's will. There is only one sun in the sky, and there is only one almighty true god in the world. Hu Da The conference guides us.¡±

I pointed to the sky: "Then you should quickly ask, what did the old man Hu Da say?"

An Liman knocked the old cigarette pipe, inserted it back into his waist, took away the tattered blanket, and began to pray with a pious expression. He turned his palms inward, facing his face, and recited the verses of the Koran, with his face His expression was pious and solemn, unlike his usual philistine and cunning look.

He was mumbling words, but we couldn't understand what he meant. The longer we waited for him, the more he couldn't finish. The monkey got impatient and asked, "Sir, are you still finished?"

An Liman opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Mr. Hu, you have already given us a revelation." After that, he took out a five-cent coin and showed it to everyone. The word on the side means "keep moving forward" and the picture on the side. Then go back the same way and ask the oldest professor here to throw it into the sky. The result that falls will be Hu Da's will.

Everyone couldn't laugh or cry, how dare you express your will to Hu Da like this? Professor Ting took the coin and threw it high into the air. Everyone looked up at the coin. The sun was bright and dazzling, but they saw the coin falling from the sky and standing upright in the sand.

Even if we throw it a hundred thousand times, it may not be such a coincidence. An Liman shook his head repeatedly, with a look of frustration on his face, forgetting that this was a black desert abandoned by Hu Da. How could Hu Da give us directions.

We were scratching our heads in wonder when we heard Miss Guo pointing to the distance and shouting: "Oh God, where is Lagzama Mountain?"

The desert was extremely empty, and as far as the eye could see from thousands of miles away, she could only see that the direction of her finger was facing the direction where the coin fell from Professor Dong. At the end of the world, there was a faint black line, but it was far away, and you couldn't see it unless you looked carefully. Not sure.

We hurriedly took out the telescope, adjusted the focus and saw a black mountain range, like a static black dragon in the thousands of miles of yellow sand. The mountain range was cut off from it and there was a mountain pass in the middle. These features were consistent with those recorded in the notes of British explorers.

Last year, Miss Guo's father led an expedition team to find the ancient city of Jingjue based on these clues. I wonder if they had ever seen this sacred mountain. If they had been here before, what did they encounter? What makes them never come back?

Thinking of this, I dared to feel a chill under the scorching sun, but this feeling was quickly diluted by the joyful atmosphere. We traveled long distances and almost died, and finally found the door to enter the ancient country of Jingjue at the last moment.

However, An Liman once said that there is a dreamy land in the black desert, where mirages often appear. Those wonders are illusions that lead people to the abyss of death. Are the two sacred mountains we saw real? ?

Then I thought, probably not. First of all, the illusions in the desert are all caused by the refraction of light. Those landscapes are all kinds of strange, and most of them are scenery that does not exist in the desert. And the black mountains, someone has mentioned it more than once, It should be absolutely true.

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Since we are not far from the ancient city of Jingjue, we can set off there when it gets dark. However, the information we have is very limited. Most of it is inferences and related legends collected. The only reliable evidence is a vague picture. It is difficult to say whether the ancient city can be found in the blurry black and white photos, or even whether there is such an ancient city in the world. Maybe everything is spread by some people, and this is how legends often come about.

On the Korean battlefield, MacArthur once said this: "At the beginning, we thought we knew everything, but later we discovered that the fact was that we knew nothing." I seem to feel this way now.

Are the ruins of the royal city not buried by yellow sand again? Can we find water in the city? Is the ancient tomb where Queen Jingjue is buried in the city? Or somewhere else? Are there really mountains of treasure in the city? What is that monster queen? Will she still pose a threat to outsiders after her death? Miss: Did Guo's father and others really die in the ancient city of Jingjue? Can their remains be found? What did those foreign explorers encounter in the city? For us, all this is still unknown.

Sand Sea Magic Nest 15

In the evening, the archaeological team set off towards Zagrama.

As the saying goes, if you look at the mountain and run to death, you will have the correct direction. You will not arrive at the mountain pass until late at night. At that time, the moonlight is like water, and the desert is like a silent sea. In this ocean of sand, the shape of Zagrama Mountain is It is undulating and covered with black stones. The closer you look, the more eye-catching you see.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a mountain. It is better to say that it is two oversized black stones. The diameter of these two huge stones is about tens of kilometers. Only a shallow backbone is exposed in the sea of ????sand. The larger part is buried underground. Maybe Below, the two boulders are themselves connected, and the pass may be nothing more than a crack in the boulder.

This black stone contains magnets. Although the average content is not high, it is enough to affect the precision instruments used to determine the orientation. We also feel that the metal objects we carry on our bodies are gradually becoming heavier.

The moonlight reflected nothing on the black stones. It was dark inside the mountain pass. Except for Ye Yixin, who was unconscious, everyone got off the camels and walked. I remind everyone to highlight their tricks. Never be careless when traveling in this devil's mouth.

An Liman and I were in front, the monkey Chu Jian was behind, and Miss Guo and others were taking care of Ye Yixin in the middle. The team lined up in a single file and slowly entered the valley.

This mountain was regarded as a sacred mountain by ancient people. It is said that these two sages were buried. This is mostly myths and legends, but from the perspective of Feng Shui, this place can really be regarded as occupying the situation and swallowing everything. The black mountain is Two black dragons guarding the mountain, it is not true that the sage can be buried on the mountain. If the mausoleum of the exquisite queen is really there at the end of the mountain, it would not be unexpected at all.

Taklimakan is the second largest mobile desert in the world. After complete desertification, the desert as a whole is gradually moving southward, and only then has the sacred mountain that was originally buried deep in the yellow sand been exposed again.

The moon was at its peak, and the valley running from north to south was so dark that I couldn't even see my fingers. We moved forward one step deeper and one shallower. The further we walked, the more uneasy we became. Once we left the valley, we could really find the exquisite scenery. An ancient city? Now that we have found the ancient city, is there any water source in the city? The most worrying thing is Ye Yixin's condition. Her acute dehydration must be treated with a large amount of clean cold salt water. If she can't find a water source within three days, her life will be thrown into the desert.

Our watches had stopped a long time ago, and we didn¡¯t know how long we had walked. We intuitively estimated that it would be dawn in a while, but at this time, the camels¡¯ breathing suddenly became heavy, and they were obviously restless.

Old man An Liman hurriedly whistled and shouted, using all his skills to calm down the group of camels. His nineteen camels were all strong and strong male camels, and they had been walking in the desert for so many days. , this has never happened.

It was already dark all around, and the commotion of these camels only increased the fear in the hearts of the team members. Miss Guo was worried that Ye Yixin would be thrown off the camel, so he and Hao Aiguo hurriedly picked her off the camel's back.

I called the monkey over and asked him to work harder. He should carry Ye Yixin on his back first. This valley is weird and tight. It is not a place to stay for a long time. We must not delay and get out as soon as possible.

The monkey was quite happy. First, Ye Yixin didn't have much weight. Since he entered the desert, he was exposed to the sun and lacked water, and he was even skinnier. Besides, it's not a bad thing to carry a beautiful girl on his back. He was like carrying a child. He carried Ye Yixin on his back and repeatedly urged An Liman in front to walk quickly.

However, no matter how hard An Liman drove us, those camels refused to take even half a step forward. Old man An Liman also became suspicious and began to talk again, fearing that Hu Da would not let us go forward any further, so he hurried back. yes.

As they were about to leave the valley, how could the rest of the people be willing to go back the way they came. The team was in a mess for a while. Miss Guo said to me: "Is there something in front that scares the camels and refuses to move forward? Let's throw a cold firework over there to take a photo." Take a photo and understand it clearly."

I agreed from the front, took out a cold firework for lighting, shot it and threw it forward, illuminating a small section of the valley in front. There were dark rocks on both sides, thick yellow sand on the ground, and the empty mountains were silent. There wasn't even a blade of grass, so there was nothing unusual about it.

At that moment, I took a few steps forward and threw a second lighting firework. My eyes lit up. There was a person sitting on the ground in the distance. We walked over and took a look. We saw that the person was wearing a white robe and had a sandproof headband on his head. wearing a turban and a rucksack on his back, motionless, it turned out to be a dead man.

Everyone was shocked. It was not surprising to encounter dead people or mummies in the desert, but this corpse was different. The deceased was a man, with a turban covering his mouth and only two eyes exposed, staring. He stared at the sky and refused to close his eyes. Perhaps he died too quickly and had no time to close his eyes.

The time of death will not be long, maybe within a few days. His exposed skin is only slightly dry. The weirdest thing is that his skin and flesh are blue, and under the illumination of the fireworks, there are traces of blue light.

Several people wanted to come around and have a look, but I stopped them. The way this person died was too weird, so don't get close. Chu Jian suddenly shouted: "Brother Hu, look, there is another dead body here."

My scalp is slightly numb. There are two dead bodies in succession. Could there be more? A few more cold fireworks were thrown out casually, illuminating the surrounding area. Sure enough, there were more than two corpses, and four male corpses were lying on the ground all around.

These dead people were dressed in the same attire and died in the same way. They all stared in horror and died in a strange way. There were also several Soviet-style AK47s and some backpacks scattered on the ground.

I pulled out the engineer shovel and used it as a weapon for self-defense. I walked over and picked up one of them. I saw that the bullet was loaded. Damn, this is weird. Who are these people? Some poachers in Xinjiang use foreign Remingtons, or Type 56s made by the army. How come there are Soviet-made AKs? Are they the same group of tomb robbers who robbed the stone tomb?

I opened one of the backpacks again and found a lot of yellow military explosives marked in Russian. It is estimated that these arms flowed into Xinjiang from Afghanistan. It is not surprising that these tomb thieves bought them to blow up ancient tombs in the desert. But why did these guys who were armed to the teeth die in this valley without any reason?

I used the barrel of my gun to lift the scarf on the face of the male corpse sitting on the ground. I saw that he had a big mouth and seemed to be shouting desperately before he died. I didn¡¯t want to look any further. No matter what, I left this graveyard as soon as possible. The valley is the best option. Those explosives might be used later. I picked up the backpack containing the explosives and prepared to let everyone leave.

At this time, Hao Aiguo walked out of the team: "It doesn't matter whether these people are tomb robbers. We can't let them expose their corpses here. Let's carry them outside the valley and bury them. As soon as I saw the people who exposed their corpses in the wilderness, I thought of Those people who were sent to the labor camp with me, those comrades died so pitifully, they didn¡¯t even have a ragged straw mat to wrap their bodies on. Alas, I hate seeing these the most..." He chatted as he went to move the seats. The male corpse on the ground.

I was really anxious at this time, and yelled and went to stop him: "You stinking nerd, you are so fucking ignorant, please don't touch these dead people!"

But it was too late. From the mouth of the male corpse, a strange snake suddenly sprang out. The scales on the snake's body were gleaming. There was a black flesh crown on the top of its head, about thirty centimeters long. The snake's body flicked and it was gone. He rushed towards Hao Aiguo's face.

Hao Aiguo had bad eyesight. Even if he had good eyesight, he couldn't dodge with his reaction. In this flash of lightning, I was eager to save people. Without having time to think about it, I picked up the engineer shovel in my hand and chopped the snake into pieces. Two cuts.

Hao Aiguo sat down on the ground in fright, his whole body trembling, and he reluctantly smiled at me: "It's too... too dangerous, thank you..."

Just as he was about to speak, the half-cut snake head on the ground suddenly bounced up, with the speed of a fast arrow leaving the string, and bit Hao Aiguo's neck. I saw that the snake had been cut into two pieces, so I He relaxed, but he didn't expect that he was so exhausted that he didn't have time to save him.

Hao Aiguo's face froze, and he made a few gurgling sounds in his throat. He wanted to speak but couldn't. His skin instantly turned dark blue, and he sat motionless and died.

Now everyone was stunned. Professor Dong's vision went dark and he fainted and fell to the ground. Before I could feel sorry for Hao Aiguo, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck. When I looked sideways, I saw the same strange snake swam up from nowhere. My shoulder was spitting out a message, and the muscles all over my body were slightly contracted backwards. It opened its mouth and arched its body, and was about to bite me. This strange snake moved too fast, and it was impossible to avoid it at such a close distance. .

Only Monkey in the team can shoot, but he was carrying Ye Yixin on his back and didn't have a gun in his hand. This change was so sudden, and the rest of the people were unprepared. My heart felt like a bucket of ice water had been poured on it, damn, I never thought that I, Old Hu, would die here today and never see the morning sun again.