"En, sure. Sa Dipeng, go and bury that skeleton with Chu Jian. Since you saw it in the desert, treat it as a good thing.”Professor Chen agreed to Chu Jian's suggestion and asked Sa Dipeng to help.
Chu Jian and Sa Dipeng didn't move either. They leaned against the bones and the stone wall and started digging.
After digging a few times, Chu Jian and Sa Dipeng felt that the shovel had hit a rock.
Because the house was very tall, the sand that had been blown in for hundreds of thousands of years had piled up very high in the house. Logically speaking, it should be impossible to dig a few times and hit a stone.
Therefore, Chu Jian and Sa Dipeng used a shovel to dig up the sand, revealing a black stone. They dug a few more times on both sides, but there was no stone left.
Xiang Qian, Old Hu, and Fatty also found it strange when they saw this. They also took out their shovel and went forward to help.
The few of them worked together and dug more than half a meter deep. In the thin yellow sand, the head of a black stone statue was actually exposed.
This human head was as big as two ordinary people's heads combined. The eyes were long and olive-shaped. They were too large in proportion to the facial features on the face, making it seem uncoordinated. There was no hat on his head, only a flat bun, and his expression was very serene. There was no obvious joy or anger. He looked like a statue worshiped in a temple or a stone man on the mountain path of a large mausoleum. However, judging from the position of the stone statue in this big house, it was more likely to be the former.
At this moment, Professor Chen came forward from behind and said to Professor Hao, who was beside him,"Look at this stone statue. Have we seen it somewhere before?”
Professor Hao went forward to take a closer look and exclaimed,"I remember now. A few years ago, a thousand-coffin tomb was unearthed in the Western Regions. There was also a stone man exactly like this in that tomb. His eyes were very prominent and different from ordinary people.”
The three young members of the archeological team had never seen a giant pupil stone statue before. When they heard Professor Hao's words, they took out pens and notebooks from their backpacks and wrote and drew on their notebooks. They were discussing how to dig up all the sand below and take a look at the golem's body. Professor Hao was also explaining some relevant knowledge to them.
Xiang Qian and Old Hu were speechless. How did burying the bones become an academic discussion?
At this moment, Ye Yixin, who was staring at the stone man, noticed that sand was starting to flow out of the stone man's eyes.
"Teacher, look at the golem's eyes. Why is sand flowing out?”
Xiang Qian and the others also walked over when they heard this. With a look, sand really began to flow out of the rockman's eyes.
Just as everyone was wondering why the stone golem's eyes had only started to leak sand after it had been dug out for a while, huge black ants the size of crickets crawled out of the stone golem's eyes one after another.
"Desert army ants! Run!" Xiang Qian and Old Hu had seen these Desert Army Ants in the desert before. They knew how terrifying these Desert Army Ants were, so they shouted at everyone and ran out.
When everyone heard their conversation, they also took their backpacks and started running. Although they had never seen Desert Army Ants before, they had seen them in books and heard of them.
Just as they ran out of the stone house, thousands of Desert Army Ants crawled out from behind them. Xiang Qian and Old Hu turned around and saw the densely packed Desert Army Ants, and their scalps went numb.
"Quick, give me the lighter!" As they were entering the desert, Xiang Qian did not bring any kerosene. Now, he and Old Hu could only take off their shirts and light them up. They shouted as they resisted the attack of the Desert Army Ants.
"Miss Yang, quickly think of a way to see if there's anything that can drive them away!”
"I have gas bombs and flash bangs, okay?”Yang Xueli said.
"Forget it, let's give it a try!"
When Yang Xueli heard Xiang Qian's words, she took out a gas bomb and a flash bomb. She pulled them apart and threw them into the desert army ants as if they were free. Needless to say, the desert army ants really retreated when they saw the gas bomb and the flash bomb.
When everyone saw that the Desert Army Ants had retreated, they hurriedly got on their camels and ran into the distance, wanting to leave this place as soon as possible.
Everyone stopped after running for a while. Xiang Qian came to An Liman's side and asked.
"Old Master, where are we now? Can you still find the direction?"
"Can't you find it? During the storm, we ran around, and then we ran around again. Now, I don't know where we are either.”
When Old Hu heard An Liman's words, he took out the compass and looked at it.""I know where we rested last night. Follow me. As long as we reach the place where we rested last night, we won't be far from the ruins of the West Night Ancient City.”
Old Hu led the way until the sun set. Everyone finally returned to the place where they had rested last night, but the supplies had been blown away by the storm.
Everyone rested for the night and woke up early the next morning. After eating their rations, they continued to advance towards the West Night Ancient City ruins.
By noon, everyone had run out of water. An Liman led them to a lake, filled it with water, and headed towards West Night Ancient City.
In the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, everyone finally arrived at the ruins of the West Night Ancient City.
At this point, An Liman expressed that he didn't know where they should go to the Jingjue Ancient Country.
In the evening, everyone was chatting around the bonfire after dinner.
"Old Hu, look at this place." Xiang Qian touched Old Hu's arm and whispered.
"Hmm?" Old Hu felt a little baffled when he heard Xiang Qian's words at first, but as Xiang Qian pointed at the sky and then pointed at the surroundings, Old Hu understood.
Old Hu and Xiang Qian sneakily got up and walked to the side. They took out the compass and calculated the stars in the sky, saying,"The Great Gate Star, the Left Assistant Star, and the Right Pilate Star all correspond to the well. In the middle, there is the Sun Star and the Moon Star. According to the hexagram, the dry armor, the golden auspicious star, and the water vein below…"
As Old Hu spoke, he turned his head and stared at Xiang Qian with wide eyes, exclaiming in a low voice,"There's a huge tomb here!"
"Yeah, let's keep watch tonight. When the time comes, we'll call Fatty and go take a look.”
"En, alright."
After the discussion, the two returned to the bonfire and sat down to listen to Professor Chen talk about what had happened in the past.
In the middle of the night, everyone was already asleep. Xiang Qian and Old Hu, who were keeping watch, looked at each other and nodded.
Old Hu stood up and walked to Fatty's side, gently waking him up.
"Fatty, get up. Lord Xiang and I found a big tomb. Let's go down and take a look.”
Fatty was originally dazed when he was woken up by Old Hu, but when he heard that Old Hu said there was a big tomb, he immediately perked up. He quietly got up and followed Xiang Qian and Old Hu to the well. He pointed at the well and asked in a low voice,"Just this? There's a big tomb?"
Xiang Qian and Old Hu ignored Fatty and tied the rope. Xiang Qian said,"I'll go down first. You guys be careful.”
After saying that, he took the flashlight and slid down the rope.
Xiang Qian landed at the bottom of the well and found that there was an underground river at the bottom of the well. There was a stone door on the opposite side of the underground river, so he pulled the rope, indicating that the two of them could come down.
Old Hu and Fatty followed the rope to the bottom of the well. Fatty used his flashlight to shine around and looked at the stone door on the other side of the underground river. Fatty said,"This is the tomb?"
Old Hu also shone his flashlight at the door." We'll know if it's true after we go over and take a look.”
The three of them crossed the underground river and came to the stone door. They looked around and found that there were no traps.
Xiang Qian pushed the stone door open with force. Fatty took a flashlight and looked inside.
"This…this can't be a morgue, right?!”
Behind the stone door was a stone room filled with dried corpses.
Fatty shone his flashlight on the corpses and saw that the corpses were all facing the three of them with painful expressions.
"Damn, this is too scary! There's nothing inside except for corpses. Are you guys mistaken?”
Xiang Qian and Old Hu walked into the stone room. When they walked to the middle of the stone room, Xiang Qian's feet touched a ring-shaped object.
"Didn't you find it just like that? Fatty, why are you so anxious?" Xiang Qian said to Fatty in a bad mood and bent down to call the two of them over.
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