The helicopter arrived before seven o'clock and picked up the body and the injured driver. There will be people to dispose of the body and inspect the scene later, so we don't have to worry about it. What I should worry about is how to prevent the Tsuchimikado Shinto people from coming back.

I can't expect the authorities to catch them all.

Satellites orbit the earth in the sky, and I sensed them in the middle of the night for three consecutive days. From this, we can infer that the enemy's satellites only pass above us in the middle of the night, and there are still ways to guard against them.

We continued on the road, and everyone except me actually knew how to drive. The lack of two drivers was not a big problem. Everyone took turns driving.

"Captain, where did that huge snake go?" Amy asked. After the battle last night, her attitude towards me has completely changed. Her eyes always turn to me, with infinite admiration and surprise——

In fact, it's not just her, but others too.

"That was caused by magic." I said casually. After all, such a big snake was too shocking. There were two scientists nearby, so it was best to use magic to deal with it.

"Wow, that's amazing! Captain, where did you learn your magic? Can you breathe fire?"

"Breathing fire is just a little trick, people in the circus can do it." I continued to pretend.

"It's definitely different. As soon as your fire burns, the terrifying and cold aura disappears. And even if they chop you with their knives, you won't be hurt. It's amazing. Can you teach me?"

"It's not that I don't teach, you can't learn this."

"team leader……"

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Not only Amy kept asking questions, but other people were also very curious, because their curiosity was so strong that even though they knew I didn’t want to say anything, they still broke the casserole and asked endless questions. Alas, people are really afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong.

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Amy asked: "Captain, why are the Japanese here? What do they want to do?"

When I had a conversation with Kenta Abe before, they did not hear what Kenta Abe said clearly, so they had this question.

This question is more difficult to answer. I was thinking about what to say when Yu Chengshu said: "I know this. They are here to steal cultural relics! About 1,600 years ago, Loulan and other ancient countries in the Western Regions perished and disappeared. Since then, there has been no

It was not discovered by the world until the famous Swedish explorer Sven Hedin discovered the Loulan ruins in 1900.

Later, he came to excavate many cultural relics. The British Hungarian Stein, the American Heng Qiandun, and the Japanese Ju Ruichao came to excavate and robbed a large number of precious cultural relics. The Japanese were determined to be thieves, and they may have found out again.

He found the ruins of an ancient country, so he sneaked into the country from the borders of small countries like Kyrgyzstan and stole treasures..."

I was stunned for a moment. This statement made sense. Maybe the Japanese didn't come here specifically to find me, but their satellites scanned a newly appeared ruins, so they came to steal the treasure. Later they found out from some channel that I was there.

They wanted to snatch my jade talisman nearby, so they came to kill me. So, they have a base not too far from here, and the ruins they are looking for may also be nearby, maybe it was the one from last time

Ruins discovered by an archaeological team.

I hurriedly asked: "Aimee, can we use a sanitary scan of this area to find their foothold?"

Amy shook her head: "Our aerospace technology has developed relatively late. Most of the satellites cannot take high-definition photography and cannot see things that are too small on the ground. Moreover, this area is too desolate. There are no satellites specially used to detect this area..."

"Give me the map."

Lu Qingwen took out the map and handed it to me. I looked at it carefully. Originally, according to our plan, we would spend the night in Tuyin tonight and reach the center of Lop Nur tomorrow. But I changed my mind because the last archaeological team was not in danger in Lop Nur.

, but in the desert southwest of Lop Nur. If the Japanese came here for this reason, they would arrive before us, so there is no need for us to follow the archaeological team's route again and we can go directly to the place where they disappeared.

"Change direction, let's go see the Tomb of the Sun, and then go directly to the place where the archaeological team disappeared... Lao Yu, are there any ancient countries in that place?"

Yu Chengshu said hurriedly: "Yes, it is close to the ruins of the ancient Jingjue Kingdom, and the distance may be less than a hundred miles."

"The ancient country of Jingjue?" I had never heard Yu Chengshu talk about the ancient country of Jingjue before, so I had no impression of it.

"Well, "Historical Records: Biography of the Western Regions" records that Jingjue City is 8,820 miles away from Chang'an, with 480 families living there, a population of 3,360, and 500 soldiers. Jingjue City in the Western Han Dynasty

The city was a must pass through on the Silk Road. From the exquisite silk excavated

, Gandhara art and Kallu text wooden tablets, as well as the well-preserved dwellings and pagodas, they have a highly developed economy and culture, and strict laws. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, when Xuanzang passed by on his westward journey, there was no human habitation there, only abandoned buildings.

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After that, there were no records about Jingjue City. In 1991, the British man Stein accidentally discovered the ruins of Jingjue Ancient City. Everything is still as it was 1,600 years ago, with a large number of remaining houses, Buddha

tower, pottery kiln, smelting

He dug there for more than half a month and took away twelve large boxes of precious cultural relics, which caused a sensation in the world and was called the 'Pompeii of the East'. After that, he came to dig three times and took away countless cultural relics.

These people are simply robbers, bandits, and villains!"

As an archaeologist, Yu Chengshu is very angry about foreigners digging up cultural relics, but I am more concerned about how the ancient city of Jingjue could not be discovered for 1,600 years, and how did it perish?

Yu Cheng wrote: "Jingjue is the most bizarre and sudden extinction among the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. The residents evacuated very quickly. Many official documents were neatly placed in the house without being opened or taken away. The residents

It was like disappearing out of thin air in normal life. Archaeologists found the remains of a dog in the ruins. There was a rope tied around its neck, and the other end of the rope was tied to a pillar. The owner did not even let go of the dog when he left.

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Several of us asked curiously: "Then what happened?"

"I don't know. Some people say it was extinct because of the war, and some say it was due to migration due to environmental degradation, but there is not enough evidence, and the conclusion is still unconfirmed. Those who hold the theory of environmental deterioration and extinction believe that it is the drying up of the Niya River and lack of water that makes people unable to

However, archaeologists have not found evidence of large-scale diversion of the Niya River. In the ruins of the ancient city, many houses are surrounded by giant trees, the trees in the orchards are neat, and there are traces of accumulated silt and ponds nearby.

This shows that it was not very dry when they evacuated.

Those who hold the theory of war extermination believe that it was the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China, and the Central Plains was in chaos, and there was no time to take care of the Western Regions. Small countries like Jingjue could be annexed and eliminated at any time. And judging from some excavations of Qilu text, they had

Threatened by a mysterious and powerful tribe, they may have been completely defeated. However, no remaining weapons were found near the ruins. All the ancient corpses unearthed were calm and peaceful, and all house ruins were complete, which proves that they were not destroyed.

For war..."

Amy shrank her head: "How weird!"

I originally thought that all the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions perished due to drought and lack of water. It seems that the ancient Jingjue Kingdom was a little different. So what caused the residents to disappear without a trace?

I'm secretly glad that I didn't drive away all my teammates, otherwise where would I go to find out these reliable historical information?

Yu Chengshu continued to talk about the archaeological development related to Jingjue. We chatted a few words from time to time, and we all became very interested in this small ancient country.

Not long after we arrived at the north bank of the ancient Kongque River, we saw the spectacular Tomb of the Sun.

These cemeteries are completely different from the cemeteries we usually see. Due to thousands of years of wind and sand erosion, only a small mound or completely flat ground remains in the tomb, but a large number of wooden piles are still clearly visible. Each tomb has a round wooden structure in the middle.

The piles are surrounded by a seven-layer circle, and a large number of wooden piles are used to form a neat ray outside, which looks like the rays of the sun. It is neat, spectacular, and exudes a mysterious atmosphere. There are seven tombs nearby, with a total of no less than 10,000 wooden piles, covering an area of ​​nearly two square meters.

Thousands of square meters, it is spectacular.

I couldn't help but take a breath of air. This is definitely a formation that absorbs Yang energy. Wood can make fire, so wooden stakes are used instead of stone pillars. But it is a bit incredible, because before the zombie becomes a drought demon, it has Yin evil attributes.

It is afraid of Yang Qi, so it will only kill the zombies inside.

Thinking about it again, I thought of a terrible possibility. If the deceased did not become a zombie, but someone treated the recently deceased corpse with some kind of medicine and evil methods, and placed it in the tomb to collect Yang Qi, thousands of years later

It is possible to directly turn into a drought demon. There are seven tombs here, and there are many in other places. If they are successful and dozens of drought demons are created, it will definitely be a devastating disaster, more terrifying than any atomic bomb!

Xiaoxue and I sensed carefully and did not sense any evil spirits or energy fluctuations in the tomb. However, we do not know whether the original designer failed or was later broken by an expert. In short, there is no essential difference between it and other mounds now.

Yu Chengshu, Yun Feiyang and others were busy taking pictures and observing, but I was no longer interested in staying here. After staying for about an hour, I urged them to move on and set up camp at the Loulan ancient city ruins tonight.

Nothing special happened along the way. Before dark, we arrived at our destination, the ancient city of Loulan, and saw a very tall mound from a distance. Yu Chengshu said it was a pagoda. Most of the ancient city walls had disappeared, leaving only

In some mounds like "Yadan", the remains of ancient houses are still clearly visible, the Populus euphratica planks used to build houses, and willow branches still stand upright in the sand. There is a lot of wood on the ground, and a large number of pottery fragments are scattered in the low-lying areas...

Thousands of years of wind and sand have washed away the prosperity of the past, but the remaining things still tell the story of the pride and glory of the past. It is so desolate and tragic that it still makes people sigh.

There is a mysterious atmosphere here. When I walked into the ruins, I felt waves of inexplicable uneasiness. This time the uneasiness was different from the previous times. It did not come from the sky or the earth, but from my heart.

Deep in it, it is shadowless and elusive, but it is as heavy as a stone and makes me feel uncomfortable.
Chapter completed!