Keli nodded: "If you want to take a shower and wash your face, I advise you not to do so. The wind and sand in the desert are already very strong, and it is difficult to clean the human body. You just wash it again, and after walking less than a few miles, you will be covered with dirt. It's also stuck to the wind and sand. If you keep washing like this, it will be difficult for the water on your body to last until night."
"In the desert, as long as there is a lack of water, you probably won't be able to survive for three days!"
Yue Guanchao teased: "Did you hear that, if your little water is washed away, we won't have any water for you to drink."
"Cut!" Although Yue Erpao was not too happy, he had no choice but to save the clean water due to the lack of water in the desert.
Afterwards, everyone drank water and rested, taking advantage of the break to stretch their legs and muscles while on the road. They would definitely continue on the road in the afternoon, so they took advantage of this time to squint and catch up on some sleep.
While Yue Guanchao was resting, strange noises began to appear in his ears!
These movements were just the sound of wind and sand at first, until the sound of wind and sand became louder and louder, and finally turned into a noisy sound of chanting, as if there were thousands of monks chanting and praying in the ancient city. Then, this sound of chanting Continuous differentiation.
Soldiers marched in formation, causing weapons to shake, merchants and travelers rushing on their way, causing cars and horses to neigh, and shopkeepers to shout, making noises and hawking, traders walking from house to house, and a series of shouts to be heard. Marching troops, cars and horses appeared one after another in the ancient city. , bustling streets, three religions and nine streams, all kinds of sounds, all kinds of strange movements, all sobbing in the sound of chanting sutras, gradually entering people's ears more and more clearly,
"Listen, what is this sound?"
While Yue Guanchao was resting, he still remained vigilant. Hearing the sounds in his ears becoming clearer and clearer, he immediately opened his eyes.
"We won't encounter a ghost town."
Yue Erpao recalled Xu Xiake's ghost talk about the deserted city and immediately hid next to the camel.
Song Siyuan looked around, looked at Keli and said: "Before we came, Xu Xiake had already read about the strange legends of abandoned cities. It is said that these abandoned ancient cities have souls living in them, and they only come out to confuse business travelers when night comes. To intimidate pedestrians.”
"I just didn't expect that even in broad daylight, I can still scare living people."
Now, the noise was getting clearer and clearer. They could even hear the children talking and the couples arguing right next to their ears. Even though the sun was shining brightly, they were sweating coldly without knowing whether it was true or not.
Keli seemed to be familiar with these things and explained: "I have encountered these things a few times, but I have never seen any souls that confuse passers-by. I also asked my father what was going on before, and he said that these people are They were taken away by the devil. From now on, they can only exist in the devil's world. They are completely invisible in our world. We can only hear their voices alive in another world under special circumstances."
Xu Xiake listened carefully to these strange movements and teased: "Maybe someone is playing tricks, let's just go and see for ourselves!"
"Listen, is this what a Taoist priest who is devoted to Taoism can say? I thought you wanted to slay demons again."
Although Yue Guanchao was joking in his words, he was not afraid in his actions. He took Song Siyuan and Xu Xiake and picked up machetes and shotguns, and carefully began to search the city. When Keli saw that they were about to take action, he also picked up his bow and arrow and chased after them.
Taking the opportunity to track down the sound, they began to walk along the city wall, and this abandoned ancient city gradually came into their sight.
The area of the ancient city is not large, and the squares are regular. It looks like an ancient style. However, most of the city towers and watchtowers have been destroyed. Only the square tower base at the top of the city can still be seen as ancient pavilions. The city wall is the longest. Five hundred meters, counting the area, it can be considered a densely populated town at most.
In the town, just as they had imagined, most of the houses and shops in the streets could no longer tell their age and style. The wood was rotted into waste and most of the walls had collapsed. They could only be distinguished by the piles of square loess. There used to be residential houses here.
Most of these buildings and mansions were covered with a thick layer of sand due to the raging northwest wind and sand. The thick sand had to be cleared to see the real thing, which made them look extremely desolate.
When Song Siyuan observed the ruins of the mansion, she could clearly see that no matter how big or small the mansions were, there was always a mound fixed in the center of the courtyard. She thought this was an exception. As more and more mansions were observed, The appearance of mounds also follows a pattern.
Faced with such regular things, Song Siyuan had already sensed something fishy in it. She asked Keli: "Brother Keli, do you know what these mounds in the yard are?"
Keli is not very clear about this: "The abandoned ancient city is ever-changing, and there are everything in the ruins. I guess it should be some kind of courtyard structure, or carbonized tree stumps. They can't build tombs in the courtyard!"
The discussion was fruitless, but it only made Song Siyuan more curious. Whether this thing was a carbonized tree stump or a tomb, it had already aroused her curiosity.
Song Siyuan simply put on a mask and goggles and walked near one of the mansions. When she entered the yard, she focused her eyes on a mound higher than the ground.
Most of these mounds were half a meter high and half a meter wide. Covered in loess, they looked like flat-topped tombs. She walked to the mounds and used the engineer pick in her hand to pry open the loess seal until it was half a meter thick. After the loess layer was cleared, the original appearance of the mound was also cleared.
Under the loess seal, you can see the hexagonal structure of the city surrounded by bluestone slabs, with carvings of people fetching water for washing clothes. Song Siyuan's eyes lit up: "I suspect these mounds are wells covered by loess."
After that, Yue Guanchao and Xu Xiake continued digging, digging out all the loess near the bluestone slab, and releasing the entire bluestone slab from the loess seal.
By now, the speculation that the bluestone structure was a well had come true. Song Siyuan picked up an engineering pickaxe and pried open the stone slab covering the wellhead.
With a bang, the stone slab fell to the ground and stirred up dust. When the loess completely dissipated, she picked up a flashlight and shined it at the half-meter-wide well mouth. The lamppost illuminated the well mouth.
The entire well wall is about three meters from the wellhead to the bottom, similar to a cylindrical trapezoid that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The wellhead is the narrowest, and then becomes wider and wider towards the bottom.
The well walls are mostly laid with blue bricks, extending from the wellhead to the bottom. These green bricks were soaked in water before and then dried for thousands of years. They have already formed obvious water marks on the well walls. With the gradually decreasing water marks, various historical periods can also be seen. The water level of the well.
Only the bottom of the well was different from the water wells they had seen. There seemed to be a section of underground channel under the bottom of the well, forming two arched holes for water in and out on the left and right walls of the well.
