In order to see more clearly, Hu Ming decisively shot a flare over.
The blazing fireball instantly illuminated the area.
It was a huge half-moon-shaped mound hundreds of meters high, and in the sky was a broken wooden ship of extremely ancient style.
Judging from the style, it should be a merchant ship that once traveled to the Western Regions.
However, the question is, how on earth did this thing get embedded in the mountainside?
For a moment, everyone looked at the ship in mid-air in astonishment, and couldn't help themselves for a long time, until the flares slowly went out.
"sky!"
"Am I right? Or are you hallucinating from staying in the Devil's City for a long time?"
The surrounding light became dim again, and Aning murmured subconsciously.
"Nothing is impossible."
"Looking at the landform here, in ancient times, this should have been an ancient river. This ship sank into the mud at the bottom of the river due to some accident."
"It's just that as time went by, the ancient river course turned into the Gobi desert, and the river bottom that wrapped the sunken ship also rose to where it is now as a result of geological movements."
Hu Ming lit a cigarette and said calmly.
"Ancient river path?" Aning said in surprise.
"...Didn't you study the terrain and geographical location here before coming here?"
"This was once one of the seventeen Silk Roads in China, and it was a relatively dangerous one."
"In ancient times, the countries in the Western Regions were distributed on this barren land. This was the middle section of the trade between Arabia and China."
Hu Ming was immediately shocked.
"No, what on earth are these people here for?"
When you come to the Mother Kingdom of the West, have you not done any research on the civilization and geographical features of the Western China Region in advance?
"Ahem, you know, we are all crooked, and we really don't know much about the ancient civilization of China."
Aning's embarrassment flashed away and he murmured.
Hu Ming really got it right!
Before they came, they didn’t know much about the Silk Road here.
After all, in their opinion, they are just here to find the Mother Kingdom of the Western Queen. What does it have to do with other civilizations?
"Huh? Now I remember that you are a crooked person? Who told me that she was Chinese before?"
"Um?"
Hu Ming looked at Aning teasingly.
I have to say that this cheekiness... ahem, I'm wrong, it's based on adapting to circumstances, which is very spiritual.
Seeing that the situation is not going well, he directly switches camps, which is awesome!
"Hey, look at the ground. There are traces of footprints here! It looks like they were left there just in the past few days."
"The terrain here is a natural haven. The Caucasians probably accidentally ran here. As for the people..."
"Maybe the person is in the sunken ship in mid-air?"
"Hu Ming, as expected of you! Your intuition is so effective!"
An Ning seemed not to have heard Hu Ming's teasing words, pointing to the footprints in the ground and the sunken ship on the cliff, and shouted exaggeratedly.
"Can!"
"As far as your talent in changing the subject bluntly and awkwardly is concerned, I, Hu Ming, would like to call you the best!"
Hu Ming looked at Aning with admiration.
"Why are you still watching? Why don't you go up and see if our people are hiding from the wind inside the boat!?"
As if he didn't hear Hu Ming's teasing words at all, Aning ordered his men without changing his expression.
From a certain level, Aning is indeed invincible!
"Uh uh uh... Okay, Ning, let's go right away."
The team doctor and the big white man nodded blankly and gave Aning a thumbs up.
Ning, that’s awesome!
This half-crescent-shaped cliff is extremely steep, with an angle of almost seventy degrees.
Immediately, two of Aning's men took out the paratrooper knives from their waists and used them as mountaineering pickaxes to climb up.
When it comes to rock climbing, they are all professionally trained, even the team doctor.
Under the light of Aning's searchlight, it didn't take long for him to successfully climb onto the sunken ship.
Seeing the two figures disappear into the sunken ship, the atmosphere suddenly became silent.
An Ning was still a little embarrassed.
Hu Ming, on the other hand, squinted his eyes and looked at the sunken ship, not knowing what to think about.
About two minutes later, suddenly...
"Something happened!"
Hu Ming suddenly pulled out the sword from his waist and said solemnly.
For Hu Ming, with the blessing of his extraordinary five senses, even the slightest movement in the sunken ship could not escape his surveillance.
"What do you mean? My people won't be in danger!"
Aning's heart sank, and he asked quickly regardless of the embarrassment.
"Your people touched something they shouldn't have touched. As for safety issues... the two people who were missing before are already dead."
"As for the two who just entered, it's hard to tell... Oh no, another one died, and only the team doctor is still alive."
Hu Ming grinned and said indifferently.
Before he finished speaking, a continuous miserable howl came from the sunken ship in mid-air.
"Monster!!! Damn it, get away, don't come near me!!!"
"Ning, run! There are monsters in this ship!!!"
"Ahhhhh--!!!"
This is the voice of the team doctor.
Immediately afterwards, the team doctor was seen running out of the sunken ship in a panic and rolling down the slope of the cliff.
Even from a distance of tens of meters, you can still see the horrified expression on his face.
"Calm down! What happened? Where are the others?"
Aning's heart trembled, and he quickly ran forward to help the team doctor and asked questions again and again.
"Monsters--there are monsters! People-eating monsters! They're all eaten...eaten."
However, in a short period of time, the team doctor seemed to have been frightened out of his courage, and he just said this back and forth.
especially.
The team doctor's body was covered in mottled blood, and his face was almost completely stained red. Combined with his horrified expression and words, it was really scary.
Coincidentally, a gust of night wind blew by, and bursts of howling ghosts and wolves could be heard in the Devil City behind him.
Under the moonlight, a ferocious figure appeared silently on the bow of the sunken ship, quietly watching the people below.
That is a person..or was a person.
Judging from his clothes, he must be An Ning's subordinate.
However, at this time, this person had changed beyond recognition, and some strange changes had occurred.
The exposed skin seemed to have been corroded by high-concentration sulfuric acid, and the whole body was red with blood dripping from high places.
Especially that face.
The eyelids have long since disappeared, and the blood-red eyes are wide open, full of cruelty and greed.
Even part of his lips are missing, his gums are exposed, and his dark white teeth add to his ferocious appearance.
The most terrifying thing is that in its hand, it is still holding a mutilated thigh!!!
Judging from the gap, it must have been torn out of the human body!
"It's a bloody corpse..." Hu Ming said softly.
Hu Ming has seen this thing too many times and will never admit it!
