Hu Ba Yi and Fatty Wang naturally followed Xue Li Yang to Kun Lun. Ding Jie was the only one who went to the Western Regions.
It took them three days to arrive at a small town by the desert by train and bus.
This was the place where Hu Bayi was waiting to set off.
After arriving at the town, Ding Jie stayed in the guest house. He had tried to find An Liman, but he found a very strange piece of news from the locals.
He said that An Liman had recently returned from the desert and had gone crazy talking nonsense all day long. He was currently being detained by the police station.
Although Ding Jie was part of the expedition team, he didn't have a recommendation letter. If he wanted to rescue An Liman, he could only wait until Hu Bayi and the others returned.
They had a recommendation letter and a work permit. The local police station should give them some face.
"Inspector Chen, can I see An Liman?”
An Li was full of living maps of the desert. If they wanted to go to the Black Desert and find the Ancient City of Jingjue, An Li was indispensable.
In fact, An Liman's role in the desert was even more important than Hu Bayi's.
Therefore, he had to find An Liman.
"Sure, but that old man, An Liman, went crazy after he came out of the Black Desert. He kept saying that there was Painted Skin in the desert and that Painted Skin would eat people.”
"He has been walking in the desert for decades. How can he still believe in these feudal superstitions?”
"However, the reason why we detained him was not because he was spreading superstitious rumors. It was because he led a group of foreigners into the desert a few days ago, but that group of foreigners had not come out yet. Only he came out, so we wanted to ask what was going on.”
Director Chen Shen smiled and explained.
"Let me see him first."
"I want to meet him alone."
It was all thanks to a waiter in the guest house that they were able to find Superintendent Chen. He had some relatives with the superintendent, so he brought Ding Jie to see the superintendent.
Of course, there were plenty of benefits.
In this society, there was no helping others for no reason. If you didn't give them benefits, no one would help you.
Anyway, Ding Jie didn't like money. Instead, she wanted to complete the mission and see what the reward was.
Under Superintendent Chen's arrangements, Ding Jie and An Liman met up very quickly.
An Liman had an unkempt beard and looked like a messy old man. He wore a cloth headgear on his head, and his eyes were cunning. He was unkempt and looked like a scavenger.
At this moment, he was walking around the detention room in a daze. He looked like an old priest as he kept muttering.
"There are ghosts in the Black Desert. Don't go in.”
"They are layers of human skin. They will appear at night and eat people.”
"I, I was almost eaten by those human skins.”
"I'm not crazy. What I saw was not an illusion. It really happened."
"You have to believe me. I didn't kill those foreigners. Those painted skins ate them.”
"I'm really not crazy."
An Liman's voice wasn't very loud, but every word he said was filled with confidence.
"Old Master, can we talk?”
"Tell me in detail about the Painted Skin you encountered?”
Ding Jie said after Superintendent Chen and the others left.
"I, I can't say. This is Big Hu's punishment. If I say it, Big Hu won't let me off. It must be Big Hu's punishment.”
"I was the one who led them to that place. I shouldn't have gone.”
An Li mumbled.
It seemed that the current plot was a little different from the progress in the novel, but it would not change in general.
Ding Jie was certain that An Liman had not gone mad. Perhaps he had experienced the Painted Skin, but he had not gone mad.
It was very simple. An Liman's hidden identity was a Taoist priest of Mao Mountain. How could a Taoist priest go crazy so easily when he encountered a ghost?
"Old man, I know you haven't gone mad. Tell me in detail what the painted skin you saw looked like, and I can help you remove it.”
"However, the prerequisite is that you lead me to the desert.”
"Don't worry. In a few days, someone will lead you out.”
Ding Jie said indifferently.
In fact, he already had some guesses about what An Liman had just said.
"We, we suddenly encountered those painted skins when we were staying at the inn at night. They were all women. At first, we thought that we had encountered other teams in the desert, but we didn't expect that.”
At this moment, An Liman was still pretending to be mysterious, but he gave a rough estimate of the time.
It turned out that when An Liman and the others were sleeping in the desert at night, they suddenly saw a group of women walking towards them.
Earlier, they didn't pay much attention to it. They only sent someone over to see what was going on.
Unexpectedly, the person he sent out disappeared.
By the time everyone reacted and chased after it, they saw an empty human skin on the ground.
An Liman was very smart. When he saw that the situation was not good, he pulled the camel and ran away. However, those foreigners were not so lucky. Painted skins appeared one after another like delicate beauties, constantly appearing in the surroundings.
More importantly, An Liman had seen with his own eyes that those human skins could eat people.
They would devour human flesh and blood.
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