Because of the discovery of Prince Gumo's tomb, Hao Shuai and the others stayed in Xiye Ancient City for one more day. It wasn't until the early morning of the third day that everyone packed up their things, filled up everything that could hold water, and set out again to find Jingjue Ancient City.
the journey.
As for the tomb of Prince Gumo, it was sealed up by Professor Chen and others as in the plot, and they wanted to slowly open the coffin for study later.
The sun in the sky was very fierce, and everyone felt as if they were about to be roasted. They kept replenishing water for fear of being exposed and dried out.
After traveling like this for a few days, Hao Shuai and his party have gone deep into the black desert. There is no Populus euphratica here anymore, and there are no undulating sand mountains. The heights of the surrounding sand dunes are almost the same, like flat steamed buns.
, boundless, on the ground, from any angle, it is the same scenery, without any sign of life.
At this time, even An Liman, who is known as the living map of the desert, has never been here. He can only lead the archaeological team forward with his years of experience in the desert.
Fortunately, Shirley Yang still had the notebook left by the British explorer, which recorded that after leaving Xiye City, the explorers discovered a place nearby with a large number of stone tombs.
Do some digging so detailed routes are drawn in your notes.
An Liman's experience and Shirley Yang's notebook, although unable to accurately locate, provided us with great help in terms of distance and direction, so that the group would not deviate from the general direction.
In the evening of that day, a group of people found a raised land and prepared to set up camp. While others were busy building a sand-proof wall on the dunes and settling the camels, Shirley Yang found Hao Shuai with her notebook and Hu Bayi.
"Daozhang Hao, according to the route in the notebook, there should be a large number of stone tombs in this area. Why are there nothing around now?" Shirley Yang asked, pointing to the notebook.
Hao Shuai took the notebook and looked at it. Based on the plot, he knew that this should be the place where Ye Yixin fell into the quicksand. Thinking that Comrade Xiaoye was pitiful enough, it was better not to let her be frightened again!
So Hao Shuai returned the notebook to Shirley Yang, turned around and walked around, then pointed to the yellow sand at his feet and said: "A few of you, come and dig down from here."
Hearing Hao Shuai's words, Shirley Yang was the first to react. She said, "Taoist Master, are you saying that the stone tomb is under the sand?"
"Yes, because of the movement of the dunes, the stone tomb was covered with sand." Hao Shuai confirmed.
The reason why he was so sure was because Hao Shuai sensed that there was an empty space one or two meters below the sand.
As soon as they heard that there was a tomb, Professor Chen and the others didn't even put up a tent. They hurriedly ran over with Chu Jian and others with tools, swung their shovels and dug down.
It didn't take long for everyone to dig down one or two meters deep. Under a not too thick layer of yellow sand, parallel to the slope of the dune, a sloping stone wall was revealed, with a large hole broken in the stone wall.
"This is definitely caused by explosives. And it's definitely an expert. The blasting force is directed outward. Look at the gravel at the entrance of the cave. It's a precise small-scale directional blasting." Hu Bayi, who was an engineer, could tell this at a glance.
It was a hole made by blasting explosives.
After saying this, Hu Bayi hesitated for a moment and continued: "And this was definitely blown up by military TNT."
Hu Bayi's words caused everyone present to fall silent for a moment. They all understood that this group of tomb robbers had military explosives, which meant that they were not ordinary tomb robbers, but probably armed tomb robbers with weapons.
"You don't care what kind of explosives they use. If you want to dig, dig quickly. If not, take them to camp and rest." Hao Shuai, who was standing next to him, saw that they were struggling to dig a hole, so he urged them directly.
Everyone turned to look at Hao Shuai. Thinking of his powerful strength, their worries about tomb robbers suddenly disappeared, so they immediately hurriedly cleaned the yellow sand on the stone tomb.
As the yellow sand was cleared away, a mallet-shaped stone wall was exposed. This is a typical stone tomb from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Huge and thick mountain stones are built into an arch, and the gaps are glued with hemp glue. Such a stone tomb is in
It is very common near the ruins of Xiye.
Now that these stone tombs have been completely covered by the desert, it is difficult to find traces of them. Professor Chen estimated that it may be related to the big sandstorm a few days ago. The strong wind exposed part of the stone tombs, and it was only then that they were robbed.
It was dug up by thieves.
Having said this, Professor Chen felt a little regretful and regretted that he had not arrived here earlier so that he could stop the abominable tomb robber.
The hole in the tomb was dark. Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo and others jumped in with flashlights. The tomb was not very big, only about the size of a small bungalow.
Everyone looked around, and there were four or five wooden coffins scattered inside. The coffin boards had been broken and thrown aside, and everything was turned into a mess.
"What kind of tomb do you think this is? There's nothing there." Fatty Wang complained.
Hao Aiguo said angrily: "If you were a tomb robber, would you leave anything for the people behind you?!"
"I'm just a loser~~~" Fatty Wang started to speak indiscriminately again. Fortunately, Hu Bayi was smart and quickly pushed Fatty Wang.
"What are you pouring?" Hao Aiguo asked.
At this time, Fatty Wang received death stares from Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and Hao Shuai. He also knew that he almost spilled the beans, so he said with a guilty conscience: "I was unlucky, I knocked a little."
Seeing that Fatty Wang had rounded off his words, Hao Shuai and the others withdrew their gaze. At the same time, Hao Shuai thought that he had to increase the amount of training for Fatty Wang, otherwise he would still be very energetic and think about fighting all day long.
"Professor, there is a mummy here." Chu Jian, who was in charge of taking pictures, pointed to a coffin and said.
The ancient corpse in the coffin is the mummified body of a young woman, with long and braided hair, and only the head is relatively well preserved.
Ignoring Professor Chen's classification of ancient corpses, Hao Shuai directly observed the mummies in the coffins.
Unfortunately, as expected, the mummy didn't have any corpse air on it.
I originally thought that this mummy was more than a thousand years old, and even if it didn't turn into a zombie, it should still have some corpse energy. Now it seems that I have thought too much.
The formation of zombies is indeed not that easy.
Hao Shuai was disappointed and walked out of the tomb directly. Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang also followed, leaving Professor Chen and the others to rescue the tomb.
Not long after, while Hao Shuai and the others were drinking and chatting, Professor Chen led Hao Aiguo to find Hao Shuai and the others.
"Xiao Hu~~"
"Professor, what's the matter?" Hu Bayi asked.
"I came here just to tell you something. The tomb was stolen no more than three to five days ago," Professor Chen analyzed.
"What do you mean, professor?" Hu Bayi asked doubtfully.
"What the professor means is that there may be a group of tomb robbers who have entered the depths of the Black Desert earlier than us. We cannot delay and it is best to catch them." Hao Aiguo said.
"Catch them? Professor Chen, Professor Hao, what are you going to use to catch them? Use the old shotgun in Fatty's hand? Or call the police to catch them?" Hao Shuai asked in a serious tone.
"This~~" Hao Aiguo was speechless for a moment after being criticized by Hao Shuai.
"Besides, do you think that with your physique and speed, you can catch up with those professional tomb robbers?" Hao Shuai struck again.