In the absence of any clues, Wang Keai's discovery is my only hope. I am eager to find valuable clues about the Flaming Sword. I have read a lot of historical materials and found some information about the Flaming Sword, but

There is no connection at all with Turpan, Hongshan, Evil Dragon, Hala and Zhuo, and the Talisman of Fire.

While searching for information, I discovered that the so-called Red Mountain is a mountain range called the Flame Mountain located in Turpan, Western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. There are many folklores spread in the Flame Mountain. "Journey to the West" records that Tang San hid in Tibet.

The "Book of Mountains and Seas" records that a red fire dragon once appeared in the Flame Mountain, and the "Record of Divine Weapons" records that the place where many magical weapons were refined and invented came from this mountain.

Although these have nothing to do with the fire talisman, since nothing has been found so far, the four of us decided to go up there, hoping to find something. The Flame Mountain is the hottest place in China. There is no grass on the surface of the mountain and it is ocher red.

The mountain looks like burning fire. The highest temperature during the day can reach over 47.8℃, and the highest ground temperature can reach over 70℃. Cen Shen, a great frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem to describe the "The volcano is abrupt at Chiting Pass, the volcano is in May"

The fire cloud is thick. The volcano is all over the mountain and has not yet bloomed, and the birds flying thousands of miles away dare not come." It roughly means that the Flame Mountain is like a fire cloud surrounding it. It has not bloomed for a long time. The birds know it even though they are thousands of miles away and dare not come here.

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This trip we went to was almost no man's land, so we had to bring a lot of weapons, equipment and food. We chose to drive the Jetta to Turpan first. In order to avoid public security inspections along the way, we usually choose to travel in less populated areas.

, until a small town more than a thousand kilometers away from the Flame Mountain.

This town is called Huosha Town. Huosha Town is close to the desert. To reach the Flame Mountains, you must cross this desert. The population in this town is very sparse. It was already late when we arrived at the town, and we had no energy to go due to the bumpy road.

After conquering the desert in front of me, I found a small hotel to rest for two days before conquering the endless desert in front of me.

The conditions in the small hotel are quite difficult. In a small room of less than ten square meters, there is a hard bed, a simple wooden table with four legs and nothing else. Water here is much more expensive than food. There is such a saying to describe this place: "

I would rather give you ten steamed buns than sell you a bowl of water." The food here is almost dry food, such as flour cakes, sorghum cakes, and dry-fried soybeans. Anyway, the food here contains very little water, and the people here have good looks.

There is a big contrast with time and age. Due to the long-term lack of water in the body, the face is full of wrinkles at a young age. Water is very precious to them.

The water we drank was very turbid, which made me feel that the water here was not as clean as the water I had washed my face with. Wang Kaitai said that he would not drink it until he died, so Dunzi and I drank some. The water tasted very strange.

, it smelled like something rancid, but we were so thirsty that there was nothing we could do without drinking. In this way, our lips were left with small cracks almost overnight.

There are only four people in this small shop, including the waiter and the cook. The boss is a talkative and hospitable man. He is in his early sixties, has a small goatee, and has a look of vicissitudes of life. He always holds his arid pipe in his hand when he walks in. Dinner

He was talking nonsense with us in front of us and we told him that he was from the exploration team and came to investigate the crustal activity of the Flaming Mountains. When the boss heard this, he waved his hands and said

"I can't go. I can't go recently."

"It's too late to go there. It's just a desert. I'm going to tell you where we've been and I'll make you tremble with fear." Dunzi started bragging without any worries.

I was afraid that Dunzi would be such a brainless guy. He didn't say a word or so before he revealed his old story and quickly interrupted him and said, "What are you bragging about? If the boss can say no, he must have his reasons. You are the only one."

It’s not enough.”

"That's right, you said the Tianchi in Changbai Mountain is underwater..." Dunzi was still worried.

"If you don't speak, no one will think you are mute. If you speak less, you will be choked to death?" Shang Yang interrupted Dunzi before he finished speaking.

"Little brothers, let alone how capable you are, not even the Great Luo Immortal can hope to survive in this desert in the past few months." The boss knocked the ashes in his pipe on the table and said with a serious face.

"Why do you say that? What exactly is this kind of desert? It seems weird what you said." I asked.

"Anyway, just listen to me. Just go if you can't! If you go, I guarantee you won't come back alive." The boss said firmly.

"Old man, I still don't believe it. Do you think any of my brothers will come back alive?" Dunzi refused to acknowledge anyone's door when he got angry, and even got into a fight with the owner of the store.

When the boss saw that Dunzi was not a good guy, he stood up to leave. Shang Yang and I quickly grabbed the boss, but no matter how much we asked, the boss didn't answer. He just said something before leaving, not listening to the old man's words.

, you will suffer losses before your eyes.

Dunzi kept nagging back. This guy can't keep his temper. He originally expected to learn some knowledge about the Flame Mountain from the boss. But Dunzi, a stubborn donkey, forced the old man to leave. Shang and I

Yang Heji, the owner of this hotel has been running a hotel here for so many years, so he must know a lot about it. It seems that if you want to know something about this place, you have to ask someone for a visit.

Shang Yang and I wanted to buy a few bottles of wine at the cooperative to bribe the shop owner, but in order to buy wine at the cooperative, we had to have alcohol stamps. Where could we get those things? In the end, we used forty kilograms of national food stamps.

We exchanged two bottles of Baogu wine. In this place, being able to drink a sip of this kind of wine is considered a cadre life? We carried two bottles of Baogu wine to the shop owner, and the shop owner’s eyes flashed with gold when he looked at the wine in our hands.

Hearing that we came here specially to treat him to a drink, acid flowed from his mouth, and he hurriedly asked the kitchen to cook two hard dishes for us to drink with.

The cook was very fast and prepared three side dishes in a blink of an eye. The owner of the shop was like an alcoholic who had not seen wine for several years. He drank the ordinary rice wine with great flavor and kept praising it.

This wine is good, this is a good thing, old man, this is my favorite drink. The Baogu wine has great stamina. After one bottle, the shop owner was a little confused. Shang Yang gave me a wink and it said something.

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I asked the owner of the shop who was already 80% occupied, "I'm telling you, uncle, what did you say during the day about the progress of this desert? What you said made us feel confused. We don't know whether we should go or not."

The shop owner narrowed his eyes and looked at us in a vulgar way and said, "I still don't know what you do? Boy, can you deceive other people, can you deceive the old man and my eyes?"
Chapter completed!