Holy Bone

Chapter 452: The Ear of the Desert God!No Ear's Civilization and Accidents! (6k large chapter)

The team rested briefly in the shelter.

Continue on your journey.

Jin An had already asked Pasha, a tall and thin old man, that if he wanted to go to the Wuershi site, he would not be able to walk for a day or two, and it would take about four days on the road.

"Four days?"

Jin An looked up at the big sun that was as red as a naan above his head. It seemed that there was still a long way to go.

After resting twice on the way, the sun appeared in the sky with a brilliant cross, and the sun was about to set. The team was going to find a place to rest for the night.

By observing the sky and observing the positions of the moon and Chang Gung, Jin'an estimated that the sunset time here is about a quarter of Haishi, that is, around 09:30 in the evening.

"The environment in the desert is complicated, and no one can tell where the seemingly peaceful place hides quicksand pits, weathered and unstable rocks, or other dangers. Although the sun has set now and it will be dark soon, I still hope If you continue to persevere, you will be able to walk a short distance to the safe shelter area opened up by our ancestors. There are food and water stored there. When you get there, you can rest assured and replenish food and water for the team. .”

This time it was not the old man Pasha or the old man Xikelti who spoke this time, but the disfigured Abud.

But he always wears a wind and sand face mask in front of outsiders. Except for Jin An and Mr. Yiyun, outsiders don't know that this old man has been disfigured.

Although I felt that it was not safe to drive in the dark night of the desert, all the people present were bold and skilled, and felt that what the old man Abud said was reasonable, and finally agreed to continue the journey after dark.

Seeing that the team agreed to his proposal, Abud and the other Xiaoshizhuang veterans exchanged glances before continuing on the road.

But just before turning his head and hurrying on his way, Abud covered his face with a kerchief, and cast a cold glance at Mr. Yiyun, with malicious intentions hidden in his two eyeballs.

It's not lust and greed.

Rather disdainful and cold.

"Young master, you have to be careful. This old slave found out that many of these veterans have malicious intentions towards you, young master, and have murderous intentions." After continuing on the road, Qibo quietly reminded Mr. Yiyun when no one was paying attention.

"It's strange, why don't these veterans hate the old slave or the Daoist Jin'an, but you are the only one who hates you? It seems that they hate you even more than Yan Kuan, who is with the old man Jiufeng. Why is the old slave I don't know what you have done, my lord, to be hated more than digging people's ancestral graves?"

"But if you think about it, it's not right. Ever since you entered Xiaoshizhuang, the old slave has been following you, young master. If you do something, the old slave should be aware of it." Qibo couldn't figure out why.

Haha, Jin An couldn't help laughing anymore.

It's not good to be murderous!
Jin An took a sneak look at Mr. Yiyun behind him, just in time to meet his slightly squinted eyes, and suddenly felt his back was wrapped in murderous aura, and the hairs on his neck stood on end.

He chose to watch his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, and concentrate on his journey, not daring to laugh anymore.

Of course, Jin An knew why Abd and the old men were so hostile to Mr. Yiyun. Last night, he and Mr. Yiyun went out of their minds and heard the conversation of the old men. Abud felt that Mr. Yiyun appeared with a woman , destroyed the years of friendship between their brothers, so they have a lot of hostility towards Mr. Yiyun.

Moreover, Aboud is the veteran who persistently suspects that Mr. Yiyun is not like a woman. A "man" who just appeared with rouge, fragrance and powder, destroyed the decades-old relationship between their brothers on the first day. Young Master's hostility will only deepen.

Young Master Yiyun glanced sideways at Jin An, "Qibo, you're drunk again, talking drunk."

Qibo also saw that the young master was in a bad mood, seeing that even Jin An was so frightened that he shrank his neck and did not dare to refute his young master, he also smiled embarrassingly: "It is indeed drunk."

After finishing speaking, he lay on the camel's back and "drunk".

The old Sadiq, who had been sneaking around at the end of the camel caravan, looked at the backs of Jin An and Yiyun, and began to mutter.

They felt that they were hiding so far, and they deliberately lowered their voices to mutter, thinking that Mr. Yiyun would not be able to hear their conversation this time.

"Fourth uncle, I suddenly don't want to find a wife." Little Sahafu suddenly said in frustration.

"What nonsense are you talking about? If my sister hears this, she will surely break off all the poplar branches at the entrance of the village and use them to beat you to death!" Old Sadik glared at himself, the nephew who had the most farts along the way.

Little Sahafu lowered his head in a depressed mood: "Fourth Uncle, I just think that women are so scary... People are afraid of devils, and devils are afraid of Daoist Jin'an. I always think that a person as powerful as Daoist Jin'an is fearless. There is nothing in the world that can scare Daoist Jin'an. Now I know what Daoist Jin'an is most afraid of... Daoist Jin'an is afraid of Yiyun Appa. Just now, Daoist Jin'an lost his freedom of speech with the look of Yiyun Appa just now .”

Old Sadik was silent.

"Don't think too much."

It's just that his explanation seems so pale and weak at this moment.

"At home, I, Apa, is also the head of the family. Me and I, Ata, are very afraid of my Apa being at home. Fourth uncle, you said that you are not afraid of my aunt. How did you do it?" Little Sahafu looked up curiously. To my fourth uncle.

At this time, even Ilham looked at old Sadiq in surprise, with admiration and admiration in his eyes: "You really deserve to be an old brother."

"Hey, man, what does it sound like to be afraid of your wife at home..." Old Sadik felt his scalp chill before he finished speaking, and a huge shadow loomed over him. When he looked up, he almost bit his tongue in horror It was Jin An who walked from the front of the team to the back of the team riding a big goat.

Jin An was quite speechless looking at the pair who kept talking all the way. Where could such an energetic uncle and nephew come from? Then he said with a serious face: "Old Sadiq, little Sahafu, you seem to be in good spirits, don't you?" I see that the other camels in the team are seriously exhausted, how about you help those camels share the pressure?"

The old Sadik and the young Sahaf immediately cried out that they were tired.

"It's getting dark, follow the team closely, don't just talk and get lost. These stone forests are as complicated as a maze. Once you get lost in these maze stone forests, it's very difficult to find people." Jin An would not really embarrass the two. People, after a warning, he walked back to the front of the team to protect the safety of the camel team.

"Fourth Uncle, we purposely stayed so far away to whisper quietly, but Daoist Jin'an could still hear us. Did Yiyun Apa and Qibo also hear our conversation along the way?"

"Don't say a word, you are the one who talks the most along the way!"

Both of them have self-awareness.

They spoke Camel language, Western Region language, and spoke from a distance, but none of them managed to escape Young Master Yiyun.

Thinking of what the two of them said just now, Mr. Yiyun is too scary, they suddenly feel that the road ahead is a long way to go, will Mr. Yiyun keep it in mind?
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The deeper you go into the desert basin, the later it gets dark.

The dusk here is the quarter of the hour of Hai, but it is completely dark, probably after two quarters of the hour of Hai, that is, after ten o'clock in the evening.

It is not a good choice to drive at night in the desert winter.

After it was completely dark, they walked in the stone forest of Yadan landform for about half an hour. It was estimated that it was already midnight, and the camel team finally arrived at the resting place mentioned by the disfigured old man Abud.

It was a cave on a rocky mountain. In the cave on the rocky mountain, there was a dead poplar tree growing like a spectacle. The bare and dead crown of the poplar tree was like a beam, supporting the cave to prevent the possibility of weathering and collapse.

Because in the depths of the desert basin, no outsiders have come in for a long time, there is no grass, and there are no wild animals. I saw a lot of living materials in the cave, such as fresh water, camel meat jerky, hay feed, and living things. Firewood, fur blankets for keeping warm...everything you can think of to survive in the desert can be found here.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a sparrow that is small and well-equipped.

Jin'an has learned about the survival skills of some desert natives. They will habitually store some simple food and water at a distance on the roads with frequent traffic in towns or on the roads of grazing, just in case.

In fact, this is the same reason as those chaifu hunters in Kangding Kingdom. They would hide some simple food and water in caves in the mountains and in deserted temples for occasional overnight stays.

He guessed that the ancestors of these veterans used similar methods of ants to move house, stored some dried meat and fresh water at a distance, and slowly explored the depths of the desert.

This method of exploration is slow.

But the win is safe insurance.

I just don't know how many years it took for the soldiers of the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom to find the Wuer's site.

Dry firewood lit a blazing bonfire, and everyone sat around the bonfire, wrapped in blankets to keep out the cold, listening to the howling wind outside the cave, and the small cave was warmed by so many people.

As for the camel teams, they formed a circle to eat hay and rest outside the cave, which also served as a warning.

The location of this cave was found very well. It was on the leeward side. Although the temperature was low at night, a camel with rough skin and thick flesh could still carry it.

The bonfire was crackling and burning, and camel jerky was roasting on the fire. Everyone sat in a circle. While eating the jerky they brought with them, Jin An noticed a small detail.

Those who have eaten the problematic camel meat in Xiaoshi Zhuang, after not eating camel meat for a day, their spirits seem a little depressed.

Just as everyone was eating the jerky they brought each other, since what happened last night, Mr. Yan, who didn’t talk much along the way, looked at the tall and thin old man Pasha and asked him something. : "During the day, I heard from the old man that you suspect that the explosion that occurred in the deepest part of the desert more than half a year ago, and the abnormal weather in the desert later, and all the strange things that happened in the desert are all related to the so-called black sun sealed by the kingdom of the undead. Regarding... If someone really went into the depths of the desert, followed clues such as Guchi Kingdom, Wuershi, Baizu, etc., and finally found the legendary Kingdom of the Immortal God, it is impossible that the person who broke the seal did not pass through Xiaoshi Village?"

Unexpectedly, the old man Pasha said: "Master Yan, I never said that the breaking of the seal has something to do with people."

"Maybe someone really entered the desert and finally broke the seal."

"Or maybe it's because the seal has loosened itself because of the time."

"Of course, it can't be ruled out that the other party passed through the Xiaoshizhuang, but didn't enter the Xiaoshizhuang, and went directly to the depths of the desert to find the kingdom of the undead. We missed the opportunity to meet that expert."

The old man Pasha seemed to talk back a lot, but in fact, all his answers were useless nonsense, and he was just talking nonsense.

"We have traveled along the way, and the whole journey has been peaceful. Why didn't we encounter the danger that you said would cause heavy casualties to the army of the Black Rain Kingdom? How far is that place from us, so we can make preparations in advance." Ai Maimati, the leader of the Western Regions who came to face the phoenix, quenched his thirst with a sip of the warm water in the cowhide water bag, and asked curiously to the other veterans present.

I don't know why, ever since he ate the incomparably fragrant camel meat from Xiaoshizhuang once, when he saw other jerky, he couldn't arouse his appetite at all.

I can only drink a few sips of warm water to warm my stomach to relieve fatigue.

He didn't think much about it, he just felt that the camel meat was too fragrant, and eating other meat was as unpalatable as chewing wax.

It's not just him, anyone who has eaten camel meat from Xiaoshizhuang has lost their appetite.

As soon as Ai Maimati finished speaking, the complexion of those veterans changed drastically, and they hurriedly said nervously: "Shh, be careful that walls have ears, misfortunes come from their mouths!"

The fat old man Sikelti said solemnly: "We don't know what happened back then. Our ancestors never mentioned a word, and never let us discuss what happened back then!"

"It's normal that we haven't encountered that place back then, because we are taking the correct route now, so there must be deviations from the route back then!"

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Silent all night.

After a night of rest, the next day just after dawn, the camel team took advantage of the coolness of last night and continued on their way in the desert Gobi.

In the next few days, the journey was uneventful, and nothing happened.

And every half a day's journey, they will find a place in the desert Gobi to replenish supplies.

this day!

The camel team finally came to the Wuershi site!

Although I was mentally prepared for the ear of the desert gods, the situation in front of me was still so shocking that it was hard to express. A black crater that almost resembled the outline of a human ear appeared at the end of the field of vision under my feet.

According to a casual visual inspection, the scope of this human ear sinkhole is definitely over hundreds of miles, which shows how huge the human ear is.

This human ear tiankeng is no different from a living person in terms of the auricle, ear canal, and ear corridor. Just one of the ears of the gods.

This reminded Jin An of the legend of the ear of the earth.

"Although we have seen the ear of the gods countless times, every time we see it, we still can't help but feel excited. This place is like a miracle!" Several veterans of Xiaoshizhuang looked at it excitedly.

With excitement in mind, everyone followed the veterans down the high ground and began to walk towards the ear of the gods at the end of the sky.

"Didn't you say that this is the ruins of the Wuer clan? I always thought that those Wuer clans regarded the ear of the gods as a miracle. A country builds houses around the ear of the gods, with the ear of the gods as the center. But the picture here , is very different from the picture I imagined..." On the way to the ear of the gods, someone raised a question in his heart.

Soon, they got the answer.

As a camel was sucked by the quicksand, when everyone was trying to rescue it, the veterans were calm and said that the quicksand here was fake quicksand and no one would die.

The answer was quickly revealed.

As the veterans dug up the sand and soil on the surface with ease, there was actually a hollow building under the sand, with wooden beams, rocks, tables, chairs, benches and other furniture.

The old man Pasha smiled: "This is the truth of the Wuer clan. They think that living in caves can hear the voice of the desert gods from the ears of the gods more clearly. Only the untouchables and slaves will be left on the surface. above."

"Wu'er are all cave dwellers!"

"The higher the status, the closer the cave dwelling building is to the ear of the gods in the center of the country!"

"Hey, people like us who live on the surface, in the eyes of the Wuer clan, are the worst untouchables. Their status is lower than that of livestock. They are only good for grazing, dumping manure, and cleaning up cave dwelling garbage. In short, what kind of dirty work The hard work is done by surface untouchables and slaves."

Unexpectedly, these Wuershi were actually cavemen.

This Wuer's civilization is quite new.

According to the old man Pasha, the knowledge he knows comes from some murals in the Tiankeng, the ear of the gods.

The climate in the desert is dry and materials are scarce. Even parchment scrolls are luxury items that ordinary people cannot afford. The civilization inheritance methods of various ethnic groups in the desert like to pass on murals.

After cleaning up the sand around the crypts, everyone was surprised to find that these crypts were built after the contours of human ears.

If the Wuer civilization hadn't died out, the area surrounding the God's Ear sinkhole should be densely packed with human ear crypts.

This made Jin An think of those dense crab mud holes by the sea.

Of course, these artificially dug human ears cave dwellings are completely different from the huge god ears that are hundreds of miles away.

After seeing the interest of living in the human ear cave for the first time, the team quickly lost interest after digging a few human ear burrows, and then began to rush to Juan Shenming's ear at full speed.

"Young Master Yiyun, do you think it is possible that the God's Ear Tiankeng was also dug out by humans?" As he was on his way, Jin An asked the Young Master Yiyun beside him with a look of deep thought.

"Master Jin'an clearly knows it all, why do you still ask me?" Mr. Yiyun held the camel's rein in his hand, and controlled the camel to run smoothly on the desert Gobi, billowing smoke and dust behind him.

The tall goats ran slowly and unhurriedly. In the end, one person and one goat fell behind Mr. Yiyun's buttocks to eat the dust.

"Cough, cough, cough, silly sheep, you are a foreign worker who wants to eat farts, and you run so slowly on purpose." Jin An stretched out his hand and waved the choking dust, couldn't help but hit the silly sheep, and could only stare blankly and run away The back view of Young Master Yiyun.

"Bah!"

"How dare I talk back to you!"

One person and one sheep were bickering, and gradually approached the God's Ear Tiankeng with the large army.

This time, with the veterans of Xiaoshizhuang leading them to a safe route, they didn't encounter quicksand along the way, and everyone arrived at the Shenming's Ear Tiankeng smoothly.

When you get close, you have to sigh again at the uncanny craftsmanship of nature, such a huge tiankeng appears on the surface.

The scope of the human ear tiankeng is very wide. You can only see the outline of the human ear if you look down from a high place. When you look up close, it is a huge tiankeng.

The tiankeng of the human ear is very large, so even the ear canal, that is, the bottomless pit, is several miles wide, and the sun's rays cannot shine too far. When people stand on the edge of the abyss and look down, they always feel this A voice from below tempted them, jump down, jump down.

It makes people a little weak-legged.

However, there were also some stupid people who picked up a stone at their feet and threw it into the ear canal to test how deep the hole was. His reckless behavior directly aroused the collective anger and resistance of the veterans.

This person is one of those people from the Western Regions.

"what are you doing!"

"Do you want to kill us all!"

Although the old man Pasha and the others had very angry expressions on their faces, they still lowered their voices and shouted angrily, as if they were afraid that their offensive behavior would really anger the gods.

The leader of this group of people from the Western Regions, Ai Yimaimati, also knew that he was in the wrong, scolded his subordinates with a straight face, and then offered an apology to the veterans, which gradually calmed down the anger of the veterans.

"Didn't it mean that there are water sources, desert plants, and other veterans grazing camels here? Why haven't we seen other veterans? The old man introduced us to us and let us say hello to them." Ai Mamaiti After apologizing, he changed the subject.

Hmph, the old man Pasha snorted coldly as before, and then led people to another direction. According to his introduction, there is a part of the ear canal in the deep ear corridor, which is a shady place where the sun does not shine all the year round, and even wind and sand can If you can't get in, the people who stay behind live there, and the camels are also kept there.

There is indeed a shady place somewhere in the ear corridor of the vast God’s Ear, where the sun does not shine and the wind and sand do not blow in. In this arid place where there is no rain all year round, it is rare to see a green plant.

The sight in front of them was no less astonishing than when they stood on a high place overlooking the Human Ear Tiankeng for the first time!
After several months of driving in the desert, the eyes were filled with yellow sand or yellow sand. After several months, I finally saw a green plant, and everyone was stunned.

Even the camels in the team happily left the team and lowered their heads to eat the plants, humming and screaming happily.

Not far away, a few simple sheds were built, old man Pasha and the others walked towards the direction of the sheds.

Others followed suit.

however.

Before they reached the place, they saw a large amount of blood splattered on the ground. The blood had been left for several days. The blood had dried and turned black. A few steps away lay the corpse of a camel that had been brutally dismembered.

The veterans panicked and ran to the shed in a hurry. As a result, there was no one there except for the blood that had dried up for several days and the corpses of a few camels. The veterans who stayed here were all missing.

Even the dozens of other camels that were kept in captivity here are all gone.

The veterans of Pasha and Xikelti had gloomy expressions, and they almost turned the place upside down, but they still didn't find the missing person, neither alive nor dead.

"According to the degree of dust accumulation in this shed, no one has lived in this shed for at least four or five days." Jin An stretched out his hand to touch the thick dust on the table and pondered.

(End of this chapter)