Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 86 Lost
Because the water source is well prepared, the archaeological team will travel easily in the next ten days.

The surrounding fields are vast, and there are yellow sand everywhere. Occasionally, a day or two of wind and sand will also dye the sky within the field of vision into yellow.

When camping at night, everyone just drank water and gnawed dry food silently most of the time.The story of Hu Bayi and Fatty was finished a few days ago, and Fatty has already started to make up his non-existent experience of joining the army, but in the end he will end up with the story of suppressing bandits in Niya Oasis, and he himself feels nothing at the end Meaning, I won’t say more.

A few chattering young people also lost their temper. At first, they followed An Liman's example and searched for Haloxylon grass and Artemisia arvensis all over the desert. Once they found it first, they would say "I'm still the best", but later this It's meaningless to be powerful. It's better to doze off quietly on the camel as the sand undulates.

Professor Chen still couldn't forget the tomb robbers who stole the corpses, and would occasionally babble: "I don't know if those tomb robbers found the ancient city of Jingjue first..." followed by a heavy sigh.

On the contrary, Xiao Ran's journey was quite interesting, when he was free, he would chat with Suohun Dinglingzhu.The Soul Locking Lingzhu will tell him which ancient country in the Western Regions he has entered now, how many ancient tomb ghosts are whispering under his feet, and even the souls of some princes and nobles are angry because the camel caravan stepped over their heads. He threatened to tie Xiao Ran and his party to dry in the desert.

The only thing that makes Xiao Ran curious is that Suohundinglingzhu has been calling him "noble Bayan" since the stone tomb.It was only later that he figured out that this "Bayan" in the entire Turkic language family means lord and nobleman. To put it bluntly, it is the lord Bayan in "Avanti".

At first, Xiao Ran couldn't help but laugh at this title, but he couldn't resist this stubborn bead, so he had no choice but to let it go.

But in the next few days, the Zidu Dark River disappeared completely.Although the team kept moving forward, An Liman still found traces of Suo Suo from time to time, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Shirley Yang was the first to discover this error. She maintained the habit of taking pictures all the way. Later, she found that the Haloxylon weeds in the last three photographs were all the same plant, but the angles and degrees of being buried by wind and sand were different.

Followed by Xiao Ran, but he found out from the information about the Soul-Locking Lingzhu that they kept going back and forth on the same tombs.

Hearing Shirley Yang's doubts, An Liman stared at his bloodshot eyes for a long time, and finally threw up his hands: "Oh, this Zidu dark river means dark river of shadows. Shadows, everyone sees them." No, we can only go here..."

In recent days, even the wind and sand, which made people feel a little bit cool, stopped.The sun is like a glowing demon, scalding human flesh with a scorching fork.After discussing with An Liman, Hu Bayi and An Liman arranged the time for the journey in the evening and morning. During the day, they dug a sandpit and put up a rainproof canvas on it to absorb some cool air from the ground.

Fortunately, the water was relatively sufficient. The fat man was lying in the sandpit, fanning the wind, and sipping water in small sips, as if drinking.It wasn't because he was thirsty, but because he wanted to feel the coolness brought by the clear water across his throat.

Hu Bayi summoned An Liman and Shirley Yang to discuss countermeasures, and called Xiao Ran over.Along the way, Xiao Ran has helped everyone make the right choices many times, and now he has become one of everyone's default leadership cores.

Hu Bayi said: "Comrades, let me say something first. Our current water is enough for ten days. If we save a little, we can last two or three days longer. The food is about ten days. The same way, everyone keeps If you are half full, you can still resist for a few more days. But now we have reached a critical point, even if we go forward, we will go around in circles, so we have to think about the arrangements for the return journey in advance."

An Liman was smoking the cigarette pot in a "clack-clack" manner, without saying a word. Seeing this, Shirley Yang said to everyone: "Everyone, there is a record in Walt's notes. They also lost their way in the black desert and lost the trail of the Zidu Dark River. But they stumbled and found it. There are two huge black magnetic mountains, like two tall warriors in black armor. Passing through the valley between them, the secret city guarded by the black warriors is just around the corner.”

An Liman nodded: "Some of my friends have entered the Black Desert and seen two sacred mountains from a distance, where the sage Zagrama is buried."

Hearing what they said, Hu Bayi suddenly realized: "If you want to talk about Cishan, I think of something. My mechanical watch has stopped and started these few days, and it will be fast and slow for a while. Could it be that we are in Cishan now? Near the mountains?"

Xiao Ran was very anxious, of course he knew there was Cishan, but the question was where exactly was Cishan located?He didn't want to just wait around for a few more days, and then accidentally stumbled upon Magnetic Mountain for some reason.

Seeing that Xiao Ran didn't speak, Shirley Yang mistakenly thought that he also had the idea of ​​retreating, and said: "We should cheer up now, we can't find the Zidu Dark River, which means that the Zidu Dark River was intercepted by the Cishan Mountain and buried deep in the ground , we are not far from our destination. If we can find Jingjue Ancient City, as we said before, the reward will be doubled. Xiao Ran... and Second Uncle Xiao are the same."

Xiao Ran thought to himself, you really think of me as a scumbag who puts family members into the team and wants to get more rewards.

While they were discussing, there was a sudden exclamation from the side.Several people turned their heads and saw Sa Dipeng lying upright in the soft sand pit.

Regardless of discussing countermeasures, everyone rushed to Sa Dipeng's side, only to see that his face was flushed, his exposed skin was covered with beads of sweat, and his forehead was as hot as sand.

Hu Bayi sighed: "It shouldn't be, this water is enough, how can I still be dehydrated..."

Su Dipeng burped suddenly at this time, and a smell of alcohol with a strange smell of medicine floated in the air.

Xiao Ran patted his legs and asked Chu Jian, "Did he take the water bag from my camel? How much did he drink?"

Chu Jian picked up the bulging water bag on the ground with a dazed look, looked at it, and said, "That's it, he just took a sip, then spit it out, saying it was wine. Then, within a minute, he poured it out... "

Xiao Ran turned his head to look, and immediately didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.He and Sa Dipeng's camels were kneeling next to each other to rest on the ground, but at some point they stood up for a walk and changed positions.Su Dipeng probably didn't pay attention to it, so he directly took the water bag that contained the five stone medicinal wine.

Fortunately, Chu Jian said that he only took a sip and vomited, so his life should not be in danger.Everyone was in a hurry, vomiting and soaking his whole body with water. Shirley Yang also found some medicine for him to eat.After a while, Sa Dipeng finally became slightly awake, and his body temperature dropped, but he was still talking nonsense.

The fat man leaned over and asked Xiao Ran suspiciously: "Brother Xiao, you haven't disposed of the wine?"

Xiao Ran made up a nonsense with some embarrassment: "I didn't pour it, I soaked some herbs in it, thinking halfway we could use it as a medicinal wine for expelling wind and heat, and it was considered to be the best use of everything, but I didn't expect him to drink it. wrong……"

It is estimated that Sa Dipeng would never have imagined that in ancient times, he would have been qualified to have a drink with celebrities from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. After all, everyone is a Taoist friend of Wushisan...

(End of this chapter)