Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 123 Sneak Attack
After I heard Sun Heizi's name again, I remembered the purpose of coming here this time. My thoughts were carried a little far by Ma Wen's memories, and I forgot the difficult problems I still have to face now.

"Thirteen, it's almost time, let's go." Jiang Shan saw that I seemed to have escaped from the past of my predecessors, and immediately urged me.

"Okay, let's go."

After getting out of the car, everyone sneaked into the city one by one. Everything seemed normal, but they always felt that something was missing.On the Silk Road, the once prosperous city was destroyed in the desert for some reason.Now, we can't even see a bird, so we don't know what kind of danger we have to face besides Sun Heizi and the others.

This time the team leader is still Jiang Shan. He and Ma Wen have figured out the situation here, so it is not difficult to enter the palace easily.In the process of walking along the road, my eyes kept looking around, hoping to find something suggested in the poem.

But apart from a few empty cans and mineral water bottles, there are only dilapidated temples and empty palaces.I wondered in my mind whether this place had been excavated before.All of a sudden, I thought that Uncle Xiang seemed to have mentioned to us that when he came here for the second time before, he was not the only one.

It was time to listen to his story. I deliberately slowed down and asked Uncle Xiang behind me if this place had become like this when he came in for the second time.

He hesitated and said: "Actually, when I came here last time, there were still some antiquities here. It's just that they took away many of them."

After listening to what he said, I suddenly became angry and said to myself, "You are really good. You just handed over our cultural relics to foreign countries."He saw something was wrong in my little eyes and quickly continued:
"Actually, they didn't take it out either."

After Uncle Xiang led this group of foreigners here, the foreigners were shocked by the situation here. They looked around and the expressions on their faces were even more shocked than seeing gold.

But the explorer who found him expressed disappointment, mainly because he didn't find what he wanted.So he ordered his subordinates to take everything they could.

In fact, there is nothing to take away. Except for the stone slabs with characters and reliefs, there is no way to transport other things, whether it is volume or weight.

I thought for a moment and asked, "What is the foreigner who found you looking for?"

"Judging from the way he spoke, I don't think he's doing it for money. It seems that he really has a scholarly air."

What else would an explorer care about if he didn't want to make money?

Seeing that I was at a loss, Uncle Xiang suddenly seemed to think of something, and then said to me: "They seem to be looking for a slate, but they didn't say what the slate is for. Also, the foreigner kept muttering in Chinese. It's not right, it's not right. I don't know what he means when he said something wrong."

The slate, Uncle Li Xiao once said, the slate found in the back garden of Li Xiao’s house was lost on the way to BJ.Could he be talking about this slate?I couldn't figure it out for a while, but it's more important to find Xia Juanjuan quickly.

In fact, this city is not big. It would be a bit far-fetched to say that it is a country.But there is another possibility. There were other buildings around the city, but for some unknown reason, they have just disappeared.Or, it didn't disappear, but was buried deep underground.

After passing through the nave all the way, we arrived at the very first square.The two miserable little guys on the ground have already started to attract flies.No way, the temperature here is too high.Bursts of stench penetrated into my nostrils from time to time. I was so disgusted that I couldn't even spit out the lunch I just had.

I don't know whether these people are worth their lives for money or for their fanatical religious beliefs.I pinched my nose and looked at Jiang Shan in a blink of an eye, only to find that her performance was a bit beyond my expectation.

She noticed that I was looking at her, and immediately understood what I meant, and said, "I've seen a lot of corpses, and the smell of corpses has long been used to."

She said that when she was learning Gu skills from Jiang Nianqing, she often had to touch corpses, such as making corpse oil or something.I'm not interested in her experience at all, and I don't want to know where they got the corpse.

After checking that there were no clues around, we had no choice but to advance to the apse.Before entering the darkness ahead, I looked back at the yellow sand and stones, wondering if I would be able to come out alive after entering.

Everyone also sorted out their equipment, turned on the flashlight, and got in.

As soon as you enter, you can feel the obvious change in temperature.After studying the design of the palace, it is very elegant in terms of materials.Using Uncle Xiang's dagger on the stone, I scratched it hard a few times, and found that the inside was made of granite, and the outside was coated with mud of unknown composition.

Moreover, on the surface of the granite inside, there are many artificially chiseled textures, which should be used to allow the mud to better adhere to the surface.Otherwise, the wisdom of the ancients was really hard to fathom, especially when they got such a huge amount of granite, but how powerful their national power was at that time.

Seeing that I was looking around all the time, Jiang Shan coughed lightly, which meant to let me concentrate.As soon as I was about to speak, I felt a strange aroma suddenly appear in the air.

He stopped them and asked if they had smelled it.Seeing them both nodding their heads at the same time, I began to wonder where the aroma came from.After a while, I noticed the lit oil lamp on the supporting stone pillar.

This oil lamp is no different from the oil lamps I have seen before in terms of its shape, structure, and texture.Even the length of the flames is almost the same.

After confirming that there were no Sun Heizi or other dangers around, we walked up to the oil lamp and looked at it carefully.I dipped my hand in the lamp oil, put it in front of my nose and smelled it, the scent was definitely coming from the burning lamp oil.

"This seems to be 'ambergris'?" Jiang Shan's words puzzled me, so I quickly asked her what ambergris was.She patiently explained to me that this stuff is actually a kind of secretion from the intestines of sperm whales, which is very precious.

"Why is such a precious thing placed here so casually?" After I finished speaking, I hurried to other oil lamps to check.I found only this one lamp, the lamp oil in it was mixed with "ambergris", and the others were ordinary lamp oil.

Jiang Shan was also puzzled, so she followed me to check, and then said, "Tell me, is it possible that there is some kind of mechanism here?"

I'm a little unsure about her guess.Without that emperor, he would set up secret passages in his palace.I just rejected her idea, and I can't think of a reason for it for the time being, so I might as well move on.

Jiang Shan took out a small bottle and greedily filled a small bottle of lamp oil. When she saw my contemptuous eyes, she quickly explained that she was pretending to be a researcher.

The innermost part of the apse should be where the king was at that time. On the ground, there are still marks similar to the friction of the "dragon chair".After looking at the scope of the seal, I thought that the size of the dragon chair is really not small.

"Thirteen, do you know the country of Jingjue?" Jiang Shan's words interrupted my thoughts, and I replied casually that I had heard it a little.

Jiang Shan continued: "I think this 'ghost country' may be the country of the best."

I don't know how to answer her point of view. After all, I'm not an archaeologist. I came to this place that doesn't shit, just to find the truth about the Soul Sect. No, my purpose now is to destroy them.

Thinking of this, I said to Jiang Shan: "I don't care whether this is the Jingjue Kingdom or the Ghost Kingdom. In short, I have to find a way to destroy the Soul Sect now, otherwise I'm wrong?"

Suddenly, behind the wall where the "Dragon Chair" was located, there was a sound of stones hitting, and it sounded like someone was moving behind.He quickly stretched out his index finger to touch his mouth, then walked gently to the wall and listened carefully.

After listening for a while, I was sure there was someone behind this.So I asked everyone to prepare their weapons. Thinking that the space behind the wall should not be very big, I asked Uncle Xiang to put away the rifle. It would be safer to use a knife.

In the middle of the apse is a stone wall made of huge boulders, with a door on each side. For safety reasons, we plan to divide into two teams and enter from both sides at the same time.But there is a problem, that is, I don't know if it is from China Unicom.

Uncle Xiang came over and asked everyone to turn off the flashlights first, and then said to me: "How about we go in together from one side. At this time, it is not suitable to move separately."

It seems that this is the only way to go.Because I remember, there should be seven or eight of them. If we are really tough, we have no advantage at all.

By the time he finished speaking, I had already covered my body with the qi mask, but unfortunately without my wife's jade pendant, I have to save some energy now.

The three of them moved silently against the wall to the left, and when they were about to approach the door, a head suddenly stuck out from inside the door.I was taken aback and subconsciously smashed it with a flashlight.

There was only a muffled groan, and the man fell to the ground, and the hot liquid was splashed on my face.I was still in shock and didn't understand what was going on, so Jiang Shan quickly turned on the flashlight to check, and found that he was a member of Sun Heizi's team.

I don’t know if it was because I was frightened at the time, and I unconsciously transported Qi to my arm. After the flashlight hit it, the back of his head instantly shattered, his brain burst, and thousands of peach blossoms bloomed. I don’t want to see it anymore Eat tofu brain.

"Brother, I'm also a bit heavy handed. Don't take it to heart. I'll burn some more paper for you when I get back, and then I'll save you." I felt a little guilty, so I wanted to use bribes to make myself feel at ease.

Jiang Shan stopped me and showed me his hands.When I looked, I found that he was holding a pistol in his hand. It seemed that they had found us a long time ago, and they came out to take our lives.

Now, I don't have anything to feel guilty about, after all, you have a weapon in your hand, but I'm unarmed.When I was sighing, Jiang Shan made a silent gesture, and then said:

"It seems that there are others."

(End of this chapter)