"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
woo woo woo woo……
The clearly audible cries in the ground came from all directions in the west, surrounding us, and a cold chill also shot up from the soles of my feet, making my heart and liver tremble from the crying.
I was so nervous that I asked Lao Jiang: "What's going on?"
Lao Jiang was still calm and said, "Do you still remember what I taught you when you asked me about the Thirty-Six Techniques for Moving Mountains and Seas?"
My heart suddenly moved: "Qi-gazing technique!"
The situation in the desert is completely different from that in the Central Plains. It is too empty and unlikely to be surrounded by mountains and rivers.
Therefore, ordinary Feng Shui techniques cannot be used at all. The only thing that can be used is: the technique of looking at Qi.
Looking at Yin Ling'er burying her little head into her body, I gritted my teeth! At this time, he didn't care too much. He grabbed the telescope from Lao Jiang's neck and climbed up to a mound more than two meters high.
As I adjusted the lens, a strange sight suddenly appeared in front of me.
In the dark night, although it couldn't be seen clearly, there seemed to be a faint black aura in the Devil's City, coming out of the soil little by little.
The denser the black texture, the denser the cries became. My heart sank and I quickly returned to the team.
The group of people in the Free Commune asked me what new discoveries I had made, but I only replied: "There is something underground!"
My eyes were fixed on Lao Jiang. Lao Jiang pondered for a moment, then got up and went to the place where the camels were tied. He took off two engineering shovels, threw one of them into my hand, and followed me to the black air. Let me dig with him.
We were digging sand from the Devil's City in full view of everyone. Ayim Khan was so frightened that he lost his mind when he saw this scene: "You are trying to kill me! The devils here don't even give God the face of Allah, so how could they?" Give me someone who believes in God.”
Lao Jiang and I ignored his nagging and continued to spin the engineer shovel downwards. When we dug to a depth of more than one meter, the engineer shovel suddenly stopped.
Lao Jiang stopped and said in a deep voice: "Change to the hand planer!"
"Oh, oh, oh, you are going to kill me, you are going to kill me." Ayimu Khan stamped his feet, speaking with a northwest accent, and circled around Lao Jiang and me.
We originally thought that there would be some treasure buried underground, because the aura technique is usually used to hunt for treasures, but what we saw was an upright mummy.
That's right, a mummy buried in the soil standing upright!
You should know that most mummies are lying horizontally. This is the first time I have seen such a corpse.
Especially the expression of this mummy is really hard for me to put into words. One word to describe it is that the canthus is splitting, and the black and shriveled head is like an old tree tumor. It is indescribably weird!
This reminded me of the ghost story Ayim Khan told. I wasn’t worried that this thing was cursed by the devil, but I was worried that he might be carrying an infectious virus, so I jumped away with Lao Jiang in tacit agreement.
A gust of cold wind hit, and the wind and sand began to wave in the west again, seeming to be consciously irrigating the pit we just dug.
Lao Jiang's eyes suddenly shrank: "There are corpses hidden vertically and ghosts filling the pits. There is something fishy about this place. It's not advisable to stay for a long time. The camels have almost rested. Let's leave the Devil City overnight!"
Ayim Khan was eager to escape from this ghost place, and immediately ordered the camel to run away.
During the day, we drove under the scorching sun, and at night, we drove while shivering. For us, it was like a world of ice and fire, and we felt like we were about to die.
I saw that Yin Ling'er's lips were turning white from the cold, so I took off the thick clothes I was wearing and gave them to her. This time Yin Ling'er didn't refuse, but Yueyue snorted coldly: "Humph, you bitch man and woman!"
After walking for about an hour, I saw rows of crooked poplar trees gradually appearing on both sides of the road. Under the cover of the poplar trees, there was a lone beacon tower in front of me.
I suddenly became curious: "Isn't there no one outside Yumen Pass? Why is there a beacon tower here?"
After taking a look at Wanli, he explained with great knowledge: "This should be left from the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han army was stationed here to resist the invasion of the Huns! This beacon tower is equivalent to our border monument , once the Huns invade, the soldiers will set off billowing smoke to alert Yumen Pass. "
"Therefore, this beacon tower is also a warning to the invaders. This is the dividing line of the Han territory: Those who offend the powerful Han will be punished no matter how far away they are!"
The words made us passionate, and the chill in our desolation also subsided a lot. Professor Xiang Wanli lived up to his reputation and had the most understanding of history among the team.
We immediately decided to go to the Beacon Tower to have a look, or simply stay here for the night.
Ayim Khan also said that this is a good place to keep out the wind and cold. We speeded up and came to the beacon tower. Ayim Khan tied the camel to the poplar tree outside.
After entering, we found that the place was in dilapidated condition. There were a lot of broken stones and debris scattered on the ground. Lao Jiang plucked his hand from inside and actually pulled out a wooden slip that was not completely rotten. There was a line of words vaguely engraved on the wooden slip.
"February 18th, the border is in danger."
Xiang Wanli explained: "Because there is almost no bamboo in the northwest, the soldiers here in ancient times used wooden slips to record important events. The eighteenth day of the second lunar month is the day of the vernal equinox, and it should be that there was a Xiongnu war at that time. Invasion."
The professor is indeed a professor, and he lives up to his reputation! He restored the historical truth in just one glance, and we couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.
However, as Lao Jiang and I dug out more and more wooden slips, things became increasingly weird.
Because every time there is an emergency on the border, the time period actually points to February 18th...
Now even Xiang Wanli was confused: "Are the Xiongnu out of their minds? Why do they choose to attack Yumen Pass on February 18th every year? There is no strategy at all."
At this time, Lao Jiang's face turned cold and he made a terrible guess: "What if the ones who attacked Yumen Pass were not the Huns?"
Xiang Wanli retorted: "What else could it be if it wasn't the Huns?"
Lao Jiang stared at a wooden slip in his hand and said, "It says here that the Han Dynasty will send 500 more people every year to resist the spring breeze."
Now everyone is even more confused, Spring Breeze? Do you still need to resist the spring breeze?
The wind brought low whimpering, and this decadent beacon tower was like a secret in the abyss, elusive.
Lao Jiang and I continued to search for the slips. When we couldn't find anything anymore, we rushed to the second floor of the beacon tower.
Many of the stone steps are weathered, and you can step into deep pits if you're not careful.
Everyone walked very carefully, but when we came to the second floor, Yin Ling'er suddenly made an ouch, and I took a flashlight and looked at her feet. At that moment, I clearly saw Yin Ling'er jumping three feet. High, just short of jumping off the beacon tower.
Yueyue covered her mouth and screamed in horror!
I saw a yellowed white skeleton lying there. Under the light of the light, the two sunken eye sockets seemed to be staring at us, indescribably terrifying.
Three crooked English letters are carved on the stone wall behind the bones: "X, I, V."
Lao Jiang just took one look at the bones and immediately concluded that these were not Asian, but European bones, most likely the explorers who came here before.
Lao Jiang and I went up to observe the bones, and found that there were some crooked little letters carved under his body. It seemed that the foreigner was trapped and died here, and he wrote some desperate last words before he died.
Xiang Wanli's English in the team was the best. He bravely stepped forward. When he saw the English, his expression changed.
After a while, he took a breath: "How is that possible?!"
He took a step back uncontrollably, and suddenly squatted down, as if he wanted to check it again carefully.
After a while, he finally gave up.
Lao Jiang quickly asked him what was written on it.
Xiang Wanli told us: "The deceased was a British explorer named George. He named this beacon tower: Fortress XIV. During his lifetime, George was studying the history of the Western Regions, especially the Yumen Pass. He believed that ancient China was resisting the While the Huns were fighting against an even more terrifying existence, that thing was called: Spring Breeze."
"February 18th every year is the day when the spring breeze comes to the world."
At that time, George specially came to the beacon tower at this time, holding a one in ten thousand possibility to investigate what kind of existence Chunfeng was. But unfortunately, when he saw the spring breeze with his own eyes, death also came quietly..."
The whole story ends abruptly here.
We have no way of knowing what George saw, and we have no way of knowing who the spring breeze is. We only know that a strong fear is shrouding us little by little!
Just when we wanted to continue searching for the beacon tower, Master Diao suddenly said: "What day is today?"
Lao Jiang, Xiang Wanli and I looked at our watches at the same time. After a while, we said with a look that was about to burst into tears: "In seven minutes, it will be midnight, which is February 18th."
At that moment the air was stagnant, and no one dared to breathe loudly.
At this time, Eagle Master didn't care about hiding his head and tail in front of Yueyue. He shouted to the crow: "Eagle!"
The next second the crow opened the door of the iron cage, and two eagles, one black and one white, instantly jumped out of the cage, soaring in the sky like arrows from their strings, overlooking all living beings.
I was curious: "This thing flew out, can it come back?"
The sand fox replied calmly from behind: "Not only can it come back, but it can also help us detect the situation within hundreds of miles. If it weren't for the eagle, how could I have survived in this great northwest by walking as a monk?"
The two eagles became smaller and smaller in my naked eyes, and finally turned into two points in the sky, hovering in the vast desert.
They made a sharp cry from time to time, as if they were searching for something keenly. I don't know how long it took, but the eagle finally came back.
Master Diao stretched out an arm to let the eagle rest on it, but what surprised us was that the eagle did not stop on Master Diao's hand, but instead got into the iron cage in despair.
As Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai chirped twice, Diao Ye's face became uglier than ever.
He quickly walked down the beacon tower, dragging Yueyue with him.
Yueyue wanted to resist, but Luo Tuo shouted loudly and looked like she was about to cry: "Miss, please stop making trouble, now is not the time to joke."
I heard something was wrong from Luo Tuo's tone, so I hurriedly chased him and asked Mr. Diao what happened.
Diao Ye replied as he walked: "This is a dead place. Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai said that there are many terrible things heading here, so we have to go quickly."
I asked Mr. Diao where to go.
Lord Diao glanced at the sky and said sternly: "Escape back to the Devil's City!"
