The red-faced shop owner took a sip of wine and continued, "Do you really think, old man, that I really don't understand anything? You people smell like earth, and you look like you came from the ground. Old man, am I right?"

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Shang Yang turned his eyes and said, "Boss, you are right. Those of us engaged in geological exploration have been dealing with soil all year round, so it is normal for us to smell a little muddy."

The old man shook his head and smiled slightly and said, "Geological exploration? "Private Geological Exploration Team"!"

Huh! This shop owner actually knows the slang? In the tomb robbing industry, in order to facilitate communication, the older generation left behind a lot of slang. For example, "civilian geological exploration" means tomb robbing. Is it possible that he also followed this path?

of?

I thought I would know if I tried it, so I asked, "Shop owner, some of my juniors want to get some oil and water. I don't know how long the road is and how high the mountain is. Is there a cave to hide from the rain and wind? Is there a hole in the cave?"

There is no evil."

When the shop owner heard this, he laughed loudly and said, "Little devil, you must have been right. You want to use dirty words to trick my old man. For the sake of these two bottles of wine, I advise you to give up the idea of ​​fishing for oil."

Just save your life and go find a small stove elsewhere, pick up some firewood, and light a small fire."

It seems that the owner of this shop is not a casual person, and his words reveal the tone of an insider. "Find a small stove, pick up some firewood, and light a small fire." It means that you can find a smaller tomb and make a small fortune.

, don't cause a big "fire" disaster. The old man won't let us enter the desert. Is there a big cave in the desert? It seems that our stay here is not in vain. We just wanted to inquire and find some clues, but we didn't expect to make a major discovery.

"Shop owner, according to you, is there oil to be harvested in this desert?" I asked tentatively.

"Huh? Don't you...don't you know there's no money to be made here? The old man talks nonsense when he drinks." The shop owner asked doubtfully.

In fact, we have no idea that there is actually a big fight in this hot and deadly desert. Maybe it is really related to the golden talisman. We originally wanted to find the legendary temple that enshrines gold medals, but now we have not found anything at all.

.It seems that if you want to find some clues about the golden talisman, the only way now is to go to this big fight. Often the clues without clues are the best clues.

"That's not right, shop owner. You haven't allowed us to go to the Flame Mountain. There must be something there. Could you please tell us? I will definitely buy you a big box of good wine later." This old man doesn't know how to get in, and it seems that

I can only come and seduce him with wine.

As soon as the old man heard that we were going to give him a box of wine, he put down his guard and started chatting, "There are too many treasures buried in this desert. Expeditions, archaeological teams, and of course tomb robbers are all here for these."

The treasure lost his life. Almost no one who stepped into this desert came out safely. I watched groups of fresh lives being buried with the treasure in the desert. I felt bad. Look at you guys.

You are not a bad person, so I advise you not to take this road of death."

The old man took a deep breath of the pungent dry tobacco and fell into the memories of ten years ago. Ten years ago, an old professor named Zhang came here with four young students from Beijing. Professor Zhang was

An old professor who has been studying the ancient Loulan national culture made an astonishing discovery in an ancient book that Turpan, known as Huozhou, is closely related to ancient Loulan. In addition, a foreign friend of Professor Zhang discovered during a scientific expedition

There is a mysterious ancient city ruins in the Kumtag Desert in Turpan. The ruins are very similar to the ancient Loulan ruins discovered in the Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. Professor Zhang firmly believes that the ruins in the Kumtag Desert are

The ruins of that ancient city were probably left behind by the ancient Loulan people.

The owner of the shop was once a gold digger. After another big disaster, he retired here and opened this small shop to enjoy his old age. But when he heard that there might be ancient Loulan ruins in the vast desert in front of him, he thought to himself

If he really found that ancient ruins, even if he just picked up bottles and cans, it would be enough to last him a lifetime, so he insisted on being a guide for Professor Zhang. Professor Zhang was very unfamiliar with the geographical environment here, and the shop owner insisted on

I wanted to go, so I took him on the road with me.

But after entering the desert, I couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north. The compass, watch and all the equipment were useless here. I just walked in the desert with no direction and no time. After three days, all the drinking water was used up.

The hot weather began to make people severely dehydrated, and then something strange happened. There were four students in their group, two of them plunged into the sand and suffocated to death as if they were possessed, and another

He ran in one direction like crazy until he disappeared. In the end, only the shop owner, Professor Zhang and one of his students were left. They took turns to rest at night, and Professor Zhang was too old to let him go.

Let the shopkeeper and the student take a break, and the student would keep watch for the first half of the night, and he would keep watch for the second half of the night. But when the shopkeeper woke up, he found that the student who had been keeping watch was missing. After searching around, he finally found himself there.

Forty meters away from them, they found stains of blood on the sand and the white canvas shoes worn by the student. Professor Zhang watched his favorite students die inexplicably one by one, and felt in his heart

I suffered a severe blow and almost suffered a nervous breakdown. Even walking became a problem. In the next two days, the shop owner helped the old professor to walk with difficulty until the old professor collapsed. When he was about to become severely dehydrated, the shop owner did

Something happened that reversed human nature. He cut the old professor's artery with a knife and drank almost all the blood in the old professor's body.

Later, the shop owner walked alone in the endless desert until he fainted. When he woke up, he realized that he had reached the edge of the desert and was rescued by several locals who came out to dig cacti. Later, he returned here to continue his business.

He stayed at his small hotel. In the following years, several groups of people came one after another, all for the mysterious ruins of the ancient city. He tried his best to persuade the passers-by who stayed here not to enter this place.

The devilish desert. But no one is willing to listen to him, and no one can come out alive.

After talking about this past, the shop owner sighed softly and said, "Young man, there is still a long way to go, why do you have to take this way? Old man, I have talked too much today." After saying this, the shop owner stood up and shook his head.

of preparing to leave.
Chapter completed!