You don’t know day or night underground, so you can only use a watch to keep time.
At seven o'clock in the morning, everyone who had taken turns to rest for two hours woke up one after another.
After a brief wash, I ate some dry food and water that I brought with me to fill my stomach, and set off again.
Yun Yi walked last and closed the door, clasping his hands together and saying, "Thank you for staying the night."
Chang Ning turned around and saw his move: "..."
I have to say, there is a lot of progress!
Following yesterday's bedtime discussion, everyone was much more careful when checking again this time.
But the more you investigate, the less relaxed you become.
"It seems that this is really not an exception. No one uses the furniture in this house, so why is it built? It can't just be used as a decoration, right? Such a large-scale decoration is really luxurious!"
One of the team members under Xu Zhao couldn't help but sigh. After saying this, not only his captain, but also Miss Jiang who was walking at the front looked towards him with stern eyes, and suddenly felt panicked, "I, Did I say something wrong?"
"No."
"That's right."
Jiang Lingxi and Xu Zhao shook their heads at him and almost finished speaking in unison, then looked at each other.
"This ruins is probably just a decoration."
"ah?"
"If this site is regarded as a large tomb, then no living people will live in it. All the buildings here are not just decorations."
When they walked across a bridge and saw water flowing in the underground river below, their guess that it was a large tomb became more certain.
In a place like the desert, water is so precious that even a child who can barely remember it knows.
Even if there is water, it would be foolish to choose to move to another place.
Unless no one lives in this place!
Seeing water in the desert, even in this huge ancient tomb, is undoubtedly an exciting thing.
It was exactly noon, and everyone unanimously decided to rest on the bridge.
Yun Yi also walked down from the bridge and ran to the river to take a closer look. When he heard the footsteps, he turned around and saw that it was Chang Ning. He immediately said excitedly: "The water in the river is very clear. You can see the fine sand underneath. It should be able to boil it." Drink?"
"I advise you to give up this idea," Chang Ning said, squatting down, picking up a small stone, and throwing it into the water. The water in that area suddenly became turbid, and it took a while to become clear again. "Since there is a lot of water here, It might be a tomb, and things in that tomb are generally taboo, so don’t touch them if you can.”
Yun Yi quickly took back his hand that was about to touch the water.
The two of them turned around and went back without looking back. Naturally, they did not see the water surface where Chang Ning had just thrown the stone. A string of bubbles slowly emerged from the bottom.
The water surface quickly returned to calm.
Although there is an extra river, the strange thing is that the surrounding air is not much moister.
Basically, every half an hour or so of walking, you need to drink water to relieve your thirst.
Jiang Lingxi tightened the cap of the mineral water bottle and put it back in her bag, "Since we assume that this is a tomb, the most important place should be the residence of the owner of the tomb. Unsurprisingly, the destination of Chang Cangmen is also there."
"Then sir, they should have arrived, right? Even if they haven't arrived, they should be there soon."
Jiang Lingxi closed her eyes and recalled the map on the USB flash drive that she had looked at earlier. "Since it is an ancient capital, the location of the tomb owner is most likely the imperial city. Let's continue moving forward."
When the time came to three o'clock in the afternoon, they came to a fork in the road.
This was not the first fork in the road they had taken, they had gone through several before.
This time it was Jiang Lingxi who stopped first.
"What's wrong, Sister Xi, are you tired? If you are tired, let's..."
"Chang Ning, Brother Xu, Yun Yi, look at that wooden plaque in front of you, does it look familiar?"
What is written on the wooden plaque?
Everyone looked intently.
"Mingji Bufang."
"Is there a chain of these ancient cloth workshops? It's pretty advanced!"
Chang Ning endured being speechless, "Are you sure this is a chain? Don't you think this place is exactly the same as what you saw before?"
Yun Yi's expression suddenly changed, and when he turned around, he saw that everyone's expressions were not much better either.
"Are we...circling back again? But I remember that we have been moving forward!"
When he walked onto the familiar bridge again, Yun Yi made a point of looking at the footprints that he and Chang Ning had taken to the river and back. Now the last trace of luck was gone.
"It seems that I was a bit too optimistic before. Also, since it is a tomb, how could there be no blocking mechanism?"
"Don't leave yet. Let's walk through the road we walked before and see where the problem originated."
Changning cooperated and took out a pen and paper. At Jiang Lingxi's signal, each person was given a piece of paper and a pen.
Jiang Lingxi took the pen and paper, "As long as I can remember it, draw it. We must think about it carefully. If we can't find a way out, we will have to keep wandering here."
Everyone's hearts trembled when they heard this, and their minds were spinning rapidly for a moment.
After Jiang Lingxi finished her drawing, she looked up and saw that everyone else was still busy writing. She put down the paper and pen and quietly got up, walked to the river, and looked at the time on the watch.
Half past five in the afternoon.
It's almost night time again.
The harvest of this day cannot be said to be nothing, but it is very limited.
I don’t know if Yun Qing and the others encountered a similar situation when they passed by here.
The bubbling sound interrupted Jiang Lingxi's contemplation.
The sound came from the water in front of her. She took a few steps back and then moved her flashlight to the water.
Only then did I realize that a thin layer of mist had floated on the water.
How thin is this mist? It is just a thin layer floating on the water and cannot even float.
But in this way, light cannot penetrate, and there is no way to see what is going on under the water.
The flashlight shines directly on the place where Gululu is bubbling, and the mist seems to come out of the water through the bubbles that emerge.
One second the flashlight shined through, and the next second there was a bubbling sound.
Jiang Lingxi also had a meal.
If it reacts to light, it is most likely not dead.
The first thing she remembered about living existence was the flash of green eyes she saw in the first inn she entered last night.
In the ruins of this ancient capital, there may really be indigenous people.
What I discovered last night was probably not an illusion!
The water doesn't look very deep. Do you want to go down and find out?
As soon as the thought passed through my mind, Chang Ning's voice came from the bridge: "Sister Xi? Everyone has finished drawing. Would you like to come over and take a look?"
"Come to the river, there is something in the river."
After a while, a group of people came running over.
Looking at the mist floating on the river and the bubbles popping up, no one spoke for a while.
"No, it can't be!" Yun Yi opened his mouth, "Chang Ning and I have come to see it before. You can see the bottom of the water at a glance. There is obviously nothing under the water except sand!"
"What about under the sand?"
Yun Yi was completely speechless.
