Brother Long placed more than twenty camels beside the well and drank them all. He took out salt and bean cakes for them to eat, then carried two large buckets of well water back to the room where the archaeologists rested.
These people were all exhausted and fell asleep on the ground. Some of them even had half a pancake in their mouths and fell asleep halfway through. Brother Long didn't alert them. These few days were enough for them to suffer.
"Brother Long, why didn't you ask why you didn't organize them in the beginning?”
"There's no need, because it's useless to stop them. As long as there's one army ant, there will be countless of them after a period of time.”
"Yes!"
The two of them looked at the pitch-black sky silently with their fruit wine in their mouths.
After boiling a large pot of water, Brother Long woke up Professor Chen and the others one by one and forced them to use hot water to burn their feet. Then, he popped the blisters on their feet.
After everything was done, Brother Long and Qin Shi went to bed. They slept for a whole day and night before their tired bodies finally recovered. At night, everyone sat around and listened to Fatty brag.
Fatty was eloquent. He told everyone how rich the resources in the old forest in the northeast were and how delicious the mountain delicacies were. It was unlike this desert. Other than sand, there was only sand. The wind was strong, and a bite of a yellow sheep would leave a mouthful of sand particles. Especially in the Greater and Lesser Xing 'an Mountains, there were all kinds of delicious food. Since ancient times, there had been a saying: beat the roe deer with a stick, scoop the fish with a ladle, and fly the pheasant into the rice cooker. Can you imagine the free life of hunters?
The few students were inexperienced and made Fatty dumbfounded. Sa Dipeng pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked curiously,
"Big Brother Wang, what is beating a roe deer with a stick? Beat him with a stick?"
Fatty said,
"Glasses, I see that you're quite studious, so I'll tell you. It means that when you walk in the mountains, you can kill a roe deer with a swing of a stick, and when you fish in the river with a ladle, you can catch big fat fish.”
This fatty really knew how to brag. Qin Shi and Long Zhixi lay down and watched him brag with a smile.
Shirley Yang snorted, disregarding Fatty's words.
"The desert has its advantages too. The species of animals and plants in the desert are no less than those in the forest. Additionally, although the Taklamakan Desert is located at the lowest point of the basin, it is a peak of the ancient civilization in a sense.”
Then, Hu Bayi was afraid that the two of them would fight, so he quickly said,"
"There's a lady in the house. We'll go out for a smoke.”
As he spoke, he pulled Fatty outside.
The bright moon in the sky was like a painting, and the stars were like brocade, illuminating the earth with a silver light. Hu Bayi lit a cigarette for Fatty.
"Fatty, give in to Shirley Yang. Don't let Brother Qin see you as a joke."
Fatty said," Of course I can't lower myself to her level. The Americans are not sensible. We can't not understand. Moreover, she's a woman. If she was a man, she would have twisted her head off and kicked it like a ball.”
Hu Bayi smiled."
"That's right, that's right. Who are you? You can even make a big hole in the cement floor by peeing. You have to be magnanimous. Don't pull Shirley's head off. Otherwise, who else can we ask for our salary? Twenty thousand dollars was not a small amount.”
After joking around for a while, Hu Bayi raised his head and blew out a smoke ring. In the sky, he saw the Giant Door Star, the Left Assistant Star, and the Right Aureate Star. The three stars were shining and arranged into a triangle. The Sun Star and the Moon Star appeared at the center. It was a good group of Golden Lucky Stars.
In the past, he had never studied the Feng Shui of the Heavenly Stars in detail. He had only read it several times in order to earn some money from the archaeological team. Now that he had read it, the contents of the Feng Shui Secret Technique Zhongtian Handscroll immediately appeared in his mind.
Hu Bayi quickly ran back to his room, took the compass, and climbed to the top of the city tower. He compared the stars in the sky and found that the place covered by the auspicious stars was at the ancient well in the city.
That meant that there must be an ancient tomb near the underground water vein? There was a saying of holding water in a tomb, but wasn't this too close?
Seeing Hu Bayi's expression and actions, Qin Shi knew that something interesting was about to happen.
No matter what, this was a major discovery. Hu Bayi had to tell the archeological team about this. It would be best if they found something here and gained something. Then, they probably wouldn't have to enter the Black Desert.
Hearing Hu Bayi's words, Professor Chen was overjoyed. He led the students to the well excitedly, wanting to go down and take a look. The railing and noose of this well had been reinstalled later. The previous one had been destroyed at some point.
Qin Shi and Shirley Yang had a discussion. The well was very deep, so they could make a double-button safety lock and hang the person down to see what was inside.
Hu Bayi could only go down himself. Although there was a water vein below, they did not dare to be careless. They put on a gas mask, a flashlight, a whistle, an engineer shovel, a dagger, and hid a black donkey hoof and a gold talisman. They reached out to test the firmness of the rope and discussed a way to contact them. If they used the flashlight to wave it up three times, the people above would stop and not let go of the rope. The second time he waved the flashlight upward, he was asking the flashlight to be pulled upward. In order to prevent accidents, he also brought a whistle. If he could not see the light of the flashlight, he would use the whistle to communicate.
It was night time. Other than the light from the flashlight, the surroundings were pitch-black. They could not see the well clearly even if they looked up. The deeper they went, the lower the temperature in the desert at night. Coupled with the high humidity in the well, it made people feel cold from the bones.
The walls of the well were slippery, making it difficult to step on. It was said that this ancient well was much older than West Night City. It was the first well that existed before West Night City. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew. Hu Bayi hurriedly shone his flashlight and saw a stone door on the wall of the well.
Hu Bayi aimed at the top of his head, blowing his whistle and flashing his flashlight. They were not far from the well, only fifteen or sixteen meters deep. As long as they spoke loudly, the people above could hear them. When they received the signal, they immediately stopped releasing the rope. Hu Bayi happened to be hanging a little below the stone door.
The cold wind blew out from the crack in the stone door. I pushed it with my hand and felt that the stone door was very thick. There was no stone lock or stone latch. Although the crack was large, I couldn't push it open. I needed a crowbar to open it.
Hu Bayi saw that he couldn't get in, so he sent out a second signal for them to pull me up. Hu Bayi explained the situation in detail, and Professor Chen was amazed.
"Strange, this might not be a mausoleum, but a secret passage or something. Which mausoleum in the world is built beside a well and leaves such a mysterious passage?”
Fatty volunteered." Who cares what it is? It's meaningless to guess. Let's go in and take a look." You guys get me down, I'll go pry open the stone door.”
Hu Bayi said," Forget it. If you want to go down, I'll go down with a crowbar. Fatty, you're too heavy. If you fall and break the rope, we'll have to go down the well to fish you up."”
This time, everyone made a rope ladder so that after the stone door opened, anyone who wanted to go down could climb down the rope ladder. In the end, Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, Glasses Emperor, Qin Shi, Brother Long, Hu Bayi and the others decided to go down. Fatty and the others stayed on top.
Hu Bayi went down first and used a crowbar to pry open the stone door. It seemed that this door was often opened in the past, or else there would not be such a big gap. However, it might not have been opened in the past few hundred years. He could not use any strength on the rope ladder. It took a lot of effort to open this door.
Behind the stone door was a brick tunnel. It was spacious and neat, and the inside was pitch black. Hu Bayi called Shirley and the others down and pulled them into the tunnel one by one.
Shirley Yang gave everyone a pill that could prevent oxygen deficiency. Then, they would put on a gas mask and walk inside without any risk.
The four of them walked about fifty meters inside and passed two stone doors in a row. The last door was tightly sealed. There embossed carvings of unknown beasts on the stone door, and there was a dead animal skin stuck on the crack of the door. They used a flat shovel to cut off the animal skin piece by piece before they could open the door.
At the end, they entered a spacious and dry stone room. It was about 60 to 70 meters long and three meters high. The four of them did not seem cramped at all when they stood inside.
Although this space was spacious, the atmosphere was not relaxed. The ground was filled with bones, and there was no place to put one's feet on. The bones looked like they were from animals, and they were extremely loose. They would shatter with a step. There were dozens of wooden pillars around, and on them were dried human skeletons. Judging by their bodies, they were all men in their prime.
Other than the bespectacled emperor, who had been through a lot, they only felt that this place was strange and did not feel afraid. Only Sa Dipeng (the emperor of eyes) was so scared that he could not even speak when he saw so many dried corpses. Wherever the professor went, he followed, not daring to take a step away. Brother Long and I looked at each other and nodded. Then, we tightened our grip on the tools in our hands.
Shirley Yang looked at the dried corpses and sighed,"
"How tragic. They are all slaves or prisoners who were buried with the dead.”
Professor Chen said to everyone,
"Looks like this is where the important dead are sacrificed. This is the custom of the ancient Gumo. These people are all criminals. They were tied up in the desert and died of thirst. After they were completely dried, they were placed here. Then, the blood of the slaughtered animals was poured on these dried corpses. Let's look around. There should be a tomb here.”
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