After entering the southern Xinjiang region, Su Tang and his companions walked for another ten days.

Every time Su Tang arrives at a town, she goes in and walks around the town.

"Next time we come across a small town like this, we won't go into it." Su Tang and her group finished visiting another town. This time, they only walked around the town roughly, so it didn't take them too long.

"Oh, you finally stopped going from city to city. I thought you wanted to visit all the towns in southern Xinjiang." Professor Tian picked up the water bag hanging on his waist and took a sip.

"Hehe, I've been to such an exotic city before, so it's good to see more. However, I've seen so much in recent days that the initial novelty has worn off. Let's hurry up and get on with our journey." Su Tang had been thinking about the herbs in the old house that Professor Tian mentioned.

As a result, Su Tang and his group moved much faster.

Finally, at noon one day, we arrived at the place Professor Tian mentioned.

"My old house is in the mountains. There is no road ahead. The carriage cannot get in. We have to walk into the mountains."

Professor Tian stood at the foot of a mountain for a few days, and not far in front of them was a steep forest.

Su Tang looked at the mountain in front of her and asked, "How did you get out?"

“I walked out.”

"Oh, we are so lucky that we didn't get lost in the mountains. Can we still find the house?" Su Tang suspected that Professor Tian might not be able to find his original house with them.

"How is that possible? I've joined the training before. Don't underestimate me. Besides, I have this, so I won't get lost." Professor Tian said as he took out a compass from the bag behind him.

Su Tang finally believed it a little.

"Then you can stay in the town we passed by before you go. We will come to the town to find you when we come out." Su Tang planned to go to the house with Professor Tian alone. If there was any danger on the way, she could also take Professor Tian into the space to hide.

"How can this be possible? There are too few people when you and Mr. Tian go into the mountains. If we stay in the mountains..." Chunmei shook her head and refused. This was the first time she disobeyed Su Tang.

"You have to listen to me this time. Mr. Tian was born and raised here. He has been in and out of this mountain many times. How could he get into trouble?" Su Tang really didn't want to bring Chunmei and the others with him.

If it wasn't for reassuring Emperor Jing, she would not have brought Chunmei and the others with her when she left Dayong Kyoto.

Although several people took good care of her on the way, Su Tang still didn't trust Chunmei and the others very much. At least, the matter of the space could not be known to Chunmei and the others.

"You and the driver go to the town to wait for us. We are going into the mountains to look for some herbs." Su Tang turned to look at Professor Tian again, "Mr. Tian, how long will it take to get out of the mountains?"

"It will take about ten days to go back and forth."

"So long?!" Xia Mei exclaimed.

"There are no roads in the mountains, so we have to go around to find places that are easier to walk on," explained Professor Tian.

"Okay, these are for you guys. You all should take some silver and find a big inn to stay in when you get to the town. Don't go out unless necessary." Su Tang gave a purse to Chunmei, the other two, and the two coachmen. The silver and money in it were enough for them to live alone in the town for two or three months.

Shopping before was not without benefits. At least she had learned about the price level in southern Xinjiang.

After watching the two carriages leave, Su Tang turned around and said to Professor Tian, "Let's go."

The two figures quickly disappeared into the dense forest.

"Are there any ferocious beasts in this forest?" Su Tang followed Professor Tian. The two had been climbing for half a day.

"There are no big insects or anything like that. Most of the things here are small insects. We have just sprinkled insect repellent powder, and we can't even have time to hide from those small insects." Professor Tian held a wooden stick in his hand and patted the ground in front of him from time to time.

The forests and vegetation in southern Xinjiang are much more dense than those in Dahe Village where Su Tang is located. If there is a pothole covered with vegetation under your feet, you will definitely fall if you don't explore the road carefully.

Su Tang also held a wooden stick in her hand and hit the ground from time to time.

"Actually, I just said that the round trip would take more than ten days. In fact, it won't take that long. We can get there in three to five days. I thought you would definitely want to visit the old house, so I said it would take a few more days." Professor Tian wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked up the water bag and took a sip of water.

"What else is there in the old house?" Su Tang understood what Professor Tian meant.

"There is a cave near the old house. There are some very special paintings carved on the stone wall of the cave. They look like they were carved with a knife, but the coherence of the pictures makes it seem as if someone drew them with an iron tool. You will understand when you see them."

"Martial arts secrets?" Su Tang thought of some content from movies and TV dramas.

However, she glanced at Professor Tian in front of her. Professor Tian was sweating after climbing the mountain for a while, which didn't seem like someone who knew martial arts.

"How is that possible? If it's a martial arts secret book, do you think I would be so tired?" Sure enough, Professor Tian denied Su Tang's wild imagination.

"Then there's nothing to see. It's just a mural. In this era, there are indeed people who can fly around, so it's nothing strange to carve a picture on a stone wall." Su Tang didn't care.

"Well, you'll know when you go and see." Professor Tian poked the grass with the stick again.

Fortunately, just as Professor Hetian said, three days later, Su Tang and his friends arrived safely at the old house where Professor Tian lived when he came here.

"We're here. It's the big house over there." After just rounding a hillside, Professor Tian stopped, raised the wooden stick in his hand and pointed forward.

There was actually a large house in the valley.

"There's such a large area of houses, but there was no one there when you came here?"

In such a remote place, building such a large yard would require a lot of manpower.

Besides, how could such a big house be occupied by only one person?

Where did the original residents of that house go?

"There's a cemetery over there, and there are quite a few graves in it." Professor Tian pointed the stick in his hand in another direction and said.

"Ah! Are they all dead?"

"I don't know. There is no tombstone and no written records." Professor Tian shook his head.

"Wow, how long have you lived here? Aren't you scared?" Su Tang began to tease Professor Tian. She didn't believe in it. In fact, living people are more terrifying than ghosts and legends.

"I am a staunch materialist, how could I believe this?" Sure enough, Professor Tian didn't believe it either.

"Well, let's go then."

Finally in the afternoon, Su Tang and his friends arrived at the old house.

Su Tang looked at the old house, whose architectural style had obvious southern Xinjiang characteristics.

The entire house is a wooden structure, with only some stone pieces visible at the foundation.

The exterior walls of the wooden house are painted black. If no candles are lit at night, they will definitely blend into the surrounding night sky.

"Aren't there any signs like plaques on the houses here?"

"There is no such thing in this house. Alas, apart from the books I saw, there is not a single word inside or outside this house." Professor Tian pushed open the door of the house. It had been abandoned for so long that the wooden door opened without making any sound.

Professor Tian took Su Tang into the house, and they first went to see the place where Professor Tian appeared when he was awake.

This is a round house. It is the first time that Su Tang has seen such a wooden house.

After all, when building houses with wood, square houses are easier to build and it is also easier to arrange furniture in the house later.

There is only a round table and two chairs in the round house.

The round table is again nothing special, the seats do have high backs.

Professor Tian squatted under the table and pulled out a wooden box from underneath, "Here are the medical books I mentioned."

"Oh." The light in the wooden house was limited, and Professor Tian was about to light the oil lamp. Su Tang waved her hand, took out a high-intensity flashlight and placed it on the table. The small room immediately became as bright as day.

"Hey, I forgot about it." Professor Tian was hit by the strong light and immediately squinted his eyes in discomfort.

Su Tang picked up the book and flipped through it. She saw several prescriptions that Professor Tian had copied down for her before.

"I don't know how long this book has been kept, but there is no sign of decay at all." Su Tang twisted the paper of the book in her hand.

"This paper has been soaked in special medicine," Professor Tian explained.

"Oh, I thought so."

"The wood outside this house is also painted with antiseptic liquid. The black paint is it."

Professor Tian sat at the table and took out a small box from a wooden box.

Opening the box, Professor Tian took out a black plaque and handed it to Su Tang. "This should be a keepsake from the original owner of this house. You can take it. You may need it in the future. You can also store these books in the space. I guess after we leave this time, I won't come back again."

Professor Tian is not young anymore, and he feels that he will definitely stay with Su Tang in the future and will definitely not come back here to live alone again.

There was nothing written on the black sign, nor were there any marks carved on it. It was just a sign with two smooth sides, and it was impossible to tell what material it was made of.

However, judging from the cool touch and the sound it makes when knocking on the table, it should be metal.

Su Tang put the book back into the wooden box and put it into the space together with the black sign.

"This room is also very special. Are there many rooms like this?" Su Tang asked as she looked around the room.

"There is one more. There are two round rooms in this house." Professor Tian still doesn't understand how he got here.

When he woke up and found himself in this room, he was really shocked. It took him a while to calm down and adapt.

It took him a long time to explore the entire house and get familiar with it.

Su Tang really didn't find anything special in the house. After scanning the room with a searchlight, she followed Professor Tian to look at other rooms.

Just as Professor Tian said, there was a round house in the house, but the house was empty and there was no furniture inside.

After visiting the old house, Su Tang and Professor Tian left the house again, took out a drone and scanned the old house from the air.

From directly above, Su Tang finally saw the strangeness of the old house.

The layout of the entire house can actually be seen as the Bagua diagram. The locations of the two circular houses are actually the two fish eyes in the Bagua diagram.

This aroused Su Tang's interest. It was the first time she saw the word "gossip" in this era.

"Let's go take a look at the herbs here." Su Tang put away the drone and said to Professor Tian beside her.

"Well, those herbs are behind the house." Professor Tian agreed and took Su Tang to the back of the house.

Behind the house was an obviously planned field with many medicinal herbs planted in it.

Most of them were herbs that Su Tang didn't recognize. Su Tang summoned some people from the space and asked them to dig the herbs here.

These people had met Professor Tian several times before, so no one looked surprised when they came out.

After receiving Su Tang's order, they didn't ask where they were. They just squatted on the ground with their tools and started digging herbs.

When there are more people, the work can be done faster, and soon a large area of herbs was dug up by them all.

Su Tang waved her hand and took the people and the herbs back into the space. She asked them to go back and replant the herbs in the vegetable garden in the space.

Looking at the bare land, Professor Tian sighed, "Ah, if the owner of this house came here and saw this piece of land with nothing left, he would probably be so angry that he would spit out three liters of blood."

"We are not wasting all the herbs. It would be a waste of resources to leave them here without anyone to take care of them." Su Tang comforted.

By this time, it had already darkened, and Su Tang took Professor Tian back to the space.

It is safer to stay in the space at night. In the past few days, Su Tang and the others have returned to the space to rest at night.

After setting the alarm, Su Tang and Professor Tian left the space again the next day.

They are going to see the cave that Professor Tian mentioned today.

"It's not far from here, just at the foot of the mountain." Professor Tian slept soundly in the space and was in good spirits.

He led the way, and the two of them soon arrived outside the cave.

Su Tang took out the high-power flashlight again. She and Professor Tian each held one, and they entered the cave holding the high-power flashlight.

The cave was very dry, and there were indeed pictures carved on the walls.

These pictures are indeed not martial arts secrets, but simply describe a complete story.

The first picture on the wall was a large group of people coming to a valley, and then they began to build houses in the valley.

Su Tang walked along the stone wall, looking at the story in the painting.

The house was built, and Su Tang could tell at a glance that it was the house outside. After all, this house was very recognizable, and the Bagua shape was easy to recognize.

People began to live in the house, and looking at the shadowy figures drawn on the wall, there were quite a few people living here at first.

But this picture of peaceful life soon changed.

On the screen, a wave of small human dots appeared again from a distance, and those people approached the house.

Then, the people in the house had a conflict with those people, and in the end both sides suffered losses. In the end, only a few people ran out from there.

Then, I drew the tombs one by one. After all, those small mounds of earth are quite special.

Then, there was only one person standing alone beside the grave.

The painting ends here, and there is no further description of the lonely figure.

"You see, this is a story." Professor Tian said after looking at the picture on the wall again.

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