"So, what you're saying is that since we're already like this now, why not do the opposite and go find the person hiding in the secret?"
This may be the tacit understanding between me and Li Dabao.
His answer was exactly what I wanted to say.
"Or maybe it's not a person at all!"
"At least not a normal 'person'!"
Li Dabao shook his head: "I don't understand what you mean, but even if we go to find him, how should we go to find him at this time?"
I thought for a moment and said, "Originally, we must be talking nonsense when looking for him. We have no clue at all."
"But just now Boss Wang said something and mentioned a place. There is an alchemy furnace in the stone room, which means there is a place where elixirs can be made."
"Although we can't find that stone chamber, what do you think was the first thing you needed to make alchemy in ancient times?"
Li Dabao said: "Isn't this nonsense? Of course we need fire, and it's not just ordinary firewood. We must..."
"Damn... Mr. Chen, you are so damn special. You can think of all this."
I nodded slightly at Li Dabao and said that was the case.
Anyway, we can no longer determine where the real entrance is.
But one thing is certain, it is either in the surrounding mountains or somewhere under our feet.
The underground ruins of the entire desert cannot be infinite, which is also difficult to support physically.
The first is the unexpectedly endless black desert above our heads. This is actually a natural quicksand layer.
The structure of any tomb, no matter how exquisitely designed, cannot be without a limit.
When a place is designed underground, whether it is a man-made tomb structure or a naturally formed cave, etc.
Its stress-bearing area actually has a limit.
Perhaps this limit is a number we cannot imagine for the top of the tomb.
But I think that even a small mountain range cannot withstand a part of the Taghlamakan Desert.
Not to mention that there are many man-made hollow environments here.
Once certain places are completely broken, for example, we are now looking for a place that can touch the top layer and blast it with a large number of detonators.
Then it will definitely cause a chain reaction and bury this place and even places we don't know about.
certainly!
If this were the case, we would definitely not be able to survive.
Thinking of this, I sincerely admired the Qingyi Taoist for being able to utilize natural conditions to such a situation.
I don't even believe it if it's not a tomb robber.
Because only tomb robbers can think so much, even super Feng Shui masters like Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng cannot plan all the details carefully.
Some things must be buried in person, and only after the experience accumulated after various burials can one accomplish such a great feat with almost no flaws.
When Li Dabao and I came out of the stone formation, we didn't meet the Azheng that Boss Wang mentioned.
After all, even if Azheng is alive now, he only has one arm and one leg left.
What kind of waves can he make?
Most likely, Boss Wang used it to yell at us.
In fact, besides looking for the underground fire veins, there is another way to find the real entrance to the tomb.
That is following those strange black crows.
Not to mention that those black crows are very annoying. Even if they are willing to let me follow them, I am afraid that we will not be able to keep up with them at our pace.
Not to mention, those black crows will attack us one after another as long as they encounter sound or strangers.
So this is simply impossible.
We returned to the place where we fell, then started climbing up using the only ropes, and finally descended from the other side of the mountain.
Finding the underground fire veins is easy to say, but more complicated to find.
This requires careful observation with the naked eye.
Because there is an alchemy furnace, there must be fire.
And how is the earth fire produced?
Naturally, there is an active volcano deep in this place, and of course it may be dead now.
And this can also explain why the desert above our heads is black.
Li Dabao and I walked more than half a circle around the entire mountain range and drilled many caves, but we couldn't find any clues related to the underground fire veins.
Even those black crows, human-faced black snakes, blue-striped squids and the so-called people didn't even see half of them.
In the end, Li Dabao was so tired that he slumped down on a rock and said, "Nine days, I feel like we can't continue searching like a headless fly."
"First of all, we really don't have much fresh water. Secondly, secondly, Mr. Bao, I'm really exhausted."
"Just let me take a break first, just for a while..."
In fact, I was also very tired, and my mouth was so dry that I didn’t want to say a word.
My body has long been dry and wet due to the sultry environment here...
wrong!
It suddenly occurred to me that we seemed to be closer to the underground fire veins.
When I told Li Dabao about this.
Li Dabao was drinking water. He replied while drinking: "I have already noticed what you said. The heat around is much worse than that at the Stonehenge."
"But what can we do? Look, there is still such a big area ahead of us. This black mountain range extends in all directions. We can find the year of the monkey, the horse and the moon."
"To take a step back, even if we finally find the tomb, the contents inside have been completely wiped out by those idiots. Not even a hair will be left for us."
After Li Dabao finished drinking the water, he handed me the water bottle in his hand.
"Take off your gas mask. It's so hot here, we don't need it anymore."
When I took off my gas mask, I felt that although the air around me was unpleasant, it didn't have that special smell.
There was indeed not much water in the kettle that Li Dabao handed me, and even the water inside was warm.
I took a few sips casually, then put away the kettle and said, "Even if we don't find it, I feel like we're almost there."
"Did you smell a smell of sulfur?"
After hearing what I said, Li Dabao sniffed the air, then shook his head to say no.
I picked up a small piece of stone from the ground and put it to the tip of my nose and smelled it. There was indeed a hint of sulfur smell, but it was not strong.
I pointed to a dark cave on the mountainside and said: "Let's go up and rest for a while, and then take safety measures. We can tell by looking at the sky...!"
"Okay, okay, okay, whatever you say is right, okay? Anyway, Mr. Bao, I don't want to move at all..."
When we came to this cave, we found a lot of scattered items inside.
There were fragments of clay pots and some bronze vessels, but most of them were in pieces.
In addition, there are some gravels, and the end of the cave is completely blocked.
We have entered two or three caves like this.
After a brief inspection, I took out the flare and prepared to shoot it into the air.
Li Dabao sat on the ground, leaned against the wall and murmured: "Nine days, I think, it's so quiet here, it's better to take a nap first."
"You won't have the strength to work until you wake up, don't you think?"
I turned my head and glanced at Li Dabao and said, "If you want to sleep, just squint for a while. I can hold on for a while."
With that said, I pulled the gun.
"biu, whoosh..."
The lighting egg jumped directly into the air and exploded, and the surrounding area was covered in bright white.
Because the cave we are in is relatively high, we can see many things very clearly.
Just at one o'clock below our feet, there is a small stream, although there is no water in it.
But the large patches of green mixed with dark yellow on both sides made me immediately know that it was the underground fire vein we were looking for.
Not only that, I also saw a body lying nearby near the creek that had dried up long ago.
Although it was far away, I still learned the identity of this person through the mutilated body on it.
"Azheng...!"
