There was no longer any soil under his feet. Instead, there was endless yellow sand.
Looking at the willow jumping in front of me, I wished I could wipe my snot on her hair and spit on her face.
Originally, after entering the desert, he could ride a camel to reduce his stamina. However, this girl said that the camel that was bitten by the wolf was too pitiful. She took the initiative to share the supplies on its back with the other three camels, causing us to have to walk so that the camel's load would not affect our journey.
After stumbling for two to three days, I finally understood why Lop Nur was the nightmare of all the Mystical Police. Although I haven't encountered any life-threatening danger yet, I'm already half dead from traveling through the desert. If it was an ordinary person, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold on long ago.
For some reason, Team Leader Chen didn't say a word today, especially when it was close to noon. He should have been resting, but he quickened his pace.
"Maybe there's something he's looking for in this area.”
Mozzie and I speculated in a low voice. Yang Liu suddenly stood up and joined in the fun, saying that she thought the same way. Mozzie and I tilted our heads and stared at her, asking her if she had a loudspeaker in her ear. He could hear it even in such a low voice.
Yang Liu proudly told us that we had experienced it before. Her senses were very sensitive since she was young. Moreover, she had a special sense of danger.
I believe this to be true, but to give an inappropriate example: For example, if you were in front of a dog and wanted to beat it up or kill it, it would definitely look at you with vigilance. On the contrary, if you were calm and thought about how cute and obedient it was, it would wag its tail at you.
This was based on science, because animals, especially wild animals, faced the test of survival from birth. They could receive information that humans could not perceive, such as ultrasound, infrasound, and so on. They could even predict some impending danger and react accordingly. This was what people called the sixth sense.
Yang Liu was one of the few people with a particularly strong sixth sense.
In the process of our speculation, Team Leader Chen has already discovered something. He quickened his pace, and before long, the ruins of an earthen wall appeared in front of him.
These ruins were not eye-catching. They had already fused with the desert, and it was impossible to discover them from a distance. Along the way, there were no reference points in the surroundings. Fortunately, Team Leader Chen was able to find them in the vast desert.
Team Leader Chen stood in the middle of the ruins with his head raised and his eyes closed. He might have recalled something from the past. We didn't dare to disturb him and didn't know what to do. It wasn't until he squatted down and started digging the sand with both hands that we were busy helping.
I thought it was a little funny. He didn't know what Team Leader Chen was digging at all, and then the three of us had to pretend to cooperate very seriously. For example, you suddenly said who farted? The people around you would quickly cover their noses and say that it was smelly. No matter how you looked at it, it would seem like they were deceiving themselves.
However, I was slapped in the face in just a few minutes. No wonder Team Leader Chen didn't give us a specific target. This thing was too easy to find and dig out. Yang Liu was the first to reach it, and then Mozzie and I reached it too.
What appeared in front of me was a wooden stake. It was nearly a foot in diameter and was made of poplar wood.
Not long after, one, two, three, more and more wooden stakes were seen again. These wooden stakes were arranged in a very orderly manner around a point, each one about a foot apart. We've only cleared out a small portion of the area in the center. There should be more at the periphery.
Looking at these wooden stakes, I already had an answer in my heart. This is one of the most mysterious and peculiar burial forms that have been discovered in China.
The so-called Sun Tomb was a kind of tomb that used wooden stakes to form a circle with the tomb as the center and formed a number of rays to simulate the sun's rays.
It was first discovered in 1979, and only a few dozen have been excavated. Through carbon-14 analysis, the Sun Tomb had a history of 3800 years.
Among them, the more famous one was the " Loulan Beauty " unearthed in 1980. She was an Indo-European. The funerary objects found in her tomb were very strange. There were stone artifacts, bone artifacts, pottery, bronze artifacts, and other things that spanned two or three civilizations. There were also animal skin scrolls that recorded more than two languages.
As for which race did the owner of the tomb belong to? Why did they build the tomb in such a way? Do you want to use the sun as a totem? Why did those cultural relics span so much time? All of this was still a mystery.
In the afternoon, we finally cleared out the tomb. Other than the unique design, the tomb of the Sun Tomb was much simpler than the Han tombs. It was a concave hemisphere with a single poplar coffin inside. There was no coffin.
The coffin had been opened by someone. The owner lying inside had long become a dried corpse. From his appearance and clothing, he was probably a man in his forties.
There were many things inside, most of which were daily necessities. To an archaeologist, any one of them could probably be studied for more than half a year. However, in our eyes, it doesn't seem to be of much value for the current mission.
The only thing that interested me was a fist-sized stone ball on the right side of the tomb owner's head. Looking at his half-clenched hands in front of his chest, this stone ball should have been held in his hands at the beginning.
I suddenly recalled my experience in the underground cave at the bottom of the Rhinoceros Pond. There was also a stone ball in the stone coffin of the leader of the Jiuli Race.
"Don't move."
I wanted to pick it up and take a look. Just as I touched the stone ball, I heard Team Leader Chen shout sternly. At this moment, I was still half-bent over. My outstretched hands were "paused" by this voice. Mozzie and Yang Liu were also shocked, and the scene fell into an extremely awkward situation.
I released my fingers and slowly put them down. I straightened my body and suddenly raised my head."I'm sorry, Team Leader Chen. I'm undisciplined. Please criticize me.”
Team Leader Chen looked at me and his expression softened." When exploring the unknown, you need to maintain a sense of reverence. You must not face it blindly, especially those things that can arouse curiosity. They are often accompanied by fatal danger. Don't have any objections. It's also my fault for not informing you in advance.”
Hearing Team Leader Chen's words, I admired him a little more in my heart. However, Yang Liu poured cold water on him by saying,"Humph, rat, you're a member of the special case team. In the eyes of others, you're an elite. Why aren't you vigilant at all? He actually dared to take it casually. What if that thing was dangerous?”
I really wanted to refute her, but she was telling the truth. Since Team Leader Chen was in front of me, I could only nod and bow."Comrade Yang Liu is right. I have learned from you. I will definitely remember your teachings and strive to be close to Comrade Yang Liu.”
Yang Liu turned her face away and said,"Bah, you're really thick-skinned."”
"What do you mean by thick-skinned?" I'm obviously shameless."
"Bah, how shameless."
"Quiet down." Team Leader Chen took a few steps back and called us outside the tomb. He said,"Regarding the Sun Tomb, I'm sure you all have some understanding of it from the 'Mystical Records.' The things inside are very common to us, but there are also some very dangerous things, such as that stone ball. That was five years ago."
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