Rebirth 1958: My Home is in Nanluoguxiang

Coo, coo...

(Let me go, let me go quickly...)

In the empty funeral boat, the blood corpse's roar of unwillingness, powerlessness and despair echoed.

It wanted to resist, but its limbs and spine were broken, so it couldn't exert any strength.

Chang Zhengyang walked out holding the bloody corpse's leg with one hand, while his other hand was not idle either, constantly pouring alcohol on the ground. Until he walked out of the funeral boat, a bottle of alcohol was just finished.

"How is the sunshine in the new society? Do you feel warm?"

Chang Zhengyang took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, flicked his finger on the bottom of the box, and a cigarette flew out of the box and was held in his mouth.

"It stinks so damn much, how long has it been since you last showered?"

Chang Zhengyang lit the cigarette in his mouth and shook his hands in disgust, shaking off the blood stains on his hands.

Coo, coo!

(I'll fight you!)

"Tsk, what's the point of living like this? Goodbye, um, goodbye. Go and apologize to the children in the jar!"

Chang Zhengyang threw the cigarette butt into the funeral boat, and the cigarette butt landed precisely on the alcohol.

boom……

The fire spread at a speed faster than lightning. In just a few breaths, the funeral ship that had stayed in the Devil City for three thousand years turned into a ball of fire in front of Chang Zhengyang.

The sharply rising temperature drove the air to flow, forming cyclones all around, making a humming sound.

It seems like the babies in the clay pots are crying!

Coo, coo!

(My master will avenge me!)

"Master? Queen Mother of the West? She'd better be alive. I came here to talk to her."

Chang Zhengyang looked indifferently at the bloody corpse struggling in the raging flames. From time to time, a pottery jar exploded in the high temperature, and a corpse beetle king flew out of it, and then turned into ashes in the flames.

"I need to make Black Glasses reflect on his mistakes when we get back. What a worthless piece of shit! It's terrible to be uneducated. For something that has lived for three thousand years, those foreigners' cutting-edge biological laboratories are willing to offer a million dollars for it!"

Chang Zhengyang shook his head speechlessly, picked up the thunder bag on the ground, fastened the backpack strap, and walked towards the Palace of Queen Mother of the West.

After returning this time, he will start studying cultural courses in the bureau and stop treating those crappy gold, silver and jewelry as treasures.

Rare living specimens are much more valuable than gold, silver and jewelry of equal weight.

For example, the market price of mice used in biomedical laboratories is three hundred dollars each these days, which is comparable to how much gold is worth these days.

Mice are just consumables, but they are already so expensive, not to mention those unique copies that cannot be reproduced, whose value cannot be calculated at all.

So poor people should not play with technology because you can’t even afford basic experimental supplies.

A day later, Chang Zhengyang stood on a cliff and looked down at the basin below.

The capital of Queen Mother of the West is located in the Snake Swamp Basin!

This basin is the lowest place within hundreds of miles. All the surrounding water converges here, so what Chang Zhengyang sees is a lush scenery.

After looking at yellow sand for several days in a row, even Chang Zhengyang was shocked when he suddenly saw a large green forest.

Chang Zhengyang looked into the distance and estimated in his mind that the diameter of the Snake Swamp Basin was about thirty miles, and it was an irregular oval shape. The altitude was about one hundred and fifty meters lower than his current location.

"There should be some geothermal heat coming out from underneath."

Chang Zhengyang stood at the bottom of the cliff and clearly felt that the temperature in the basin was much higher than the desert above, about fifteen degrees.

"The people from Queen Mother of the West have occupied a good place."

Chang Zhengyang looked around, confirmed the direction, and walked deeper into the basin.

The Palace of Queen Mother of the West is right in the middle of the basin, and he just has to follow the direction of the water flow.

However, since there has been almost no rainfall in the Taklamakan Desert in recent years, even though the Shezhao Basin is the lowest point within hundreds of miles, there is still not much water in the river, the flow is intermittent, and the vegetation is not that dense.

It has been three hundred years since the Little Ice Age began in the late Ming Dynasty, and coupled with the large-scale deforestation, there is almost no rainfall in the northwest now.

This macro-climate change has greatly affected the forests in the Snake Swamp Basin. As Chang Zhengyang walked along, he found that the forests here were originally supposed to be subtropical in shape, but now they look like temperate forests.

After walking about five miles, the view suddenly opened up and a swamp appeared in front of Chang Zhengyang.

Although it is called a swamp, due to insufficient water flow, many parts of this swamp have dried up, and are dotted with puddles of various sizes, sparkling in the sun.

“What a strong smell of snake!”

Chang Zhengyang glanced at a large rock in the distance, where a group of snakes were coiled up basking in the sun.

Snakes are cold-blooded animals and they maintain their body temperature by basking in the sun.

The people of Queen Mother of the West's Kingdom disappeared, and this place became the world of Pheasant Neck.

When Chang Zhengyang stepped into the swamp, the pheasants' necks stood up, their tongues kept moving in and out, making a hissing sound.

Gradually, the hissing sounds became more and more frequent, and more pheasants' necks were startled, but what puzzled them was that although they felt the vibration of the ground, they could not sense any different smell.

"You blind people are a perfect match for the black blind man!"

Chang Zhengyang walked past the pheasant's neck with a swagger. He closed all the pores on his body, which not only reduced the heat dissipation of his body, but also blocked the odor from his body.

There are only two ways for snakes to find prey. One is to sense the smell in the air through the tongue, and the other is to sense the vibration of the ground through the body.

Especially the former, sensing smells through the tongue is the main means of perception for snakes.

Now they only felt the vibrations but no smell, which made the necks of these thoughtless pheasants feel restless.

Chang Zhengyang was too lazy to pay attention to these pheasant necks. He quickly crossed the swamp and walked into the forest again. He walked in the forest for another ten minutes and finally saw the remains of the building.

According to the bureau's archives, this should be the outer area of ​​the temple of the Queen Mother of the West.

Chang Zhengyang was shocked to realize that the entrance to the Queen Mother's Palace was not far ahead.

In fact, the drainage systems here are all interconnected, and you can find the Queen Mother of the West Palace no matter which drainage outlet you enter.

However, this method can only be used when it rains heavily in the desert and the drainage system is filled with water. Only by following the direction of the water flow can you find the Queen Mother of the West Palace.

Therefore, the Snake Swamp Basin has always been here, but few people can find the Palace of Queen Mother of the West.

Because the underground drainage system of the Queen Mother of the West Palace is too large, and there are countless pheasant necks inside, most people who go in will either get lost or be bitten to death by pheasant necks. Chang Zhengyang did not have this worry. Although he had never been to a tomb, he was familiar with the principles of yin and yang and the five elements. Although the layout of the Queen Mother of the West Palace was very different from that of the Central Plains, it still did not escape his discerning eyes.