Holy Bone

Chapter 460 Out of the Desert Ear

Behind the stone gate is a long corridor.

When a living person enters, the airflow will bring up dust, and people can only move forward with their mouths and noses tightly covered.

Walking in the depressive space, people feel that even the timeline is infinitely stretched, as if they will never come to an end, and the more they go, the more depressing they are.

I don't know how long they walked, but the light of the torch suddenly flickered slightly.

Sensing the slight change of the torch in his hand, Jin An paused.

Mr. Yiyun: "What's wrong?"

Jin An thought: "It seems that there was a breeze blowing just now. This place should be connected to the outside world."

He guessed right. When they came to the end, an underground palace complex half buried by yellow sand appeared in front of them. There was a new gap in the palace complex that was blown out by explosives, and they could directly see the night starry sky above the ground.

The outside wind blows in from here.

When they climbed out of the cave along the yellow sand slope, they suddenly appeared on the desert Gobi, with the ear of the desert behind them.

"How did we return to the surface?"

At this time, Ayimaimati came out with the earless Abbas on his back, staring blankly at the vast yellow sand world in front of him.

"The underground building just now should be the shrine where the high priest of the Wuer family and the priests live. These priests claim to be extraordinary, and they are angels who walk in the world instead of gods. There must be a special passage to the ear of the gods. The temple in the pit, they should have entered the tiankeng through the shrine to hold various sacrifices and major celebrations." Jin An looked up at the dark sky and expressed his conjecture.

This kind of explanation really makes sense, so no one refuted Jin An.

"These Wuer clans like to live underground and build their houses and shrines underground. Why did I suddenly think of an idiom called digging their own grave? If I didn't know in advance that this is the site of the Wuer clan, when I was in the shrine just now I thought I entered a certain huge mausoleum, and these Wuer clans actually built such a large palace complex underground."

After Jin An finished speaking in amazement, he looked towards the direction of the camp in the ear of the desert: "Come on, let's go back to the camp first. Our trip to the tiankeng took a long time, and it will be dawn soon."

These Wuer clans regard the Desert Ear Tiankeng as a god, and there are no buildings in the Desert Ear. The buildings of the Wuer clan are all built around the Tiankeng. The closer to the Desert Ear, the higher the status.

The Ear of the Desert sinkhole is huge, and they still have a long way to go if they want to return to the temporary camp in the Ear of the Desert.

On the way back, Mr. Yiyun frowned slightly, thinking about something.

"Master Yiyun, do you have something to say?" Jin An looked at Mr. Yiyun strangely.

Mr. Yiyun: "Do you feel that Abbas and his group's sudden madness, leading us to discover the Yin and Yang Twins Road, Tiankeng Temple, Shizhamen, Wuer's Shrine... These things are set up by those veterans who have escaped. The trap is used to deliberately delay time, disrupt our sight, keep us busy from head to toe, and have no free time to think about flaws, so that we can't chase them in the first place?"

Hearing this, Jin An's face was stern: "These veterans have a lot of secrets, and we still haven't figured out what the corpse oil that the people in Xiaoshizhuang spent several generations of hard work to refine is what they want to use."

"Actually, their next whereabouts are not difficult to guess." Jin An smiled slightly, with calm and confidence on his face.

Mr. Yiyun became interested: "Oh? How do you say that?"

The two talked while walking on the Gobi desert in the cold winter wind. Ai Yimaimati and the others followed behind them obediently, but they secretly listened to the conversation between the two in front of them.

Jin An: "During this journey, I didn't notice any corpse oil on those veterans. It may be that the Laughing Corpse Village caught fire a few days ago too suddenly. They have been unable to go down into the ancient tomb under the dry well to take out the corpse oil... ..."

"...So, their next whereabouts are not difficult to guess."

"One, maybe go back to Xiaoshi Zhuang, retrieve those corpse oils that are important to them, and then use those corpse oils to plot something we don't know."

"Second, maybe because they were concerned about the safety of their companions, they didn't rush back to Xiaoshi Zhuang to get back the corpse oil. Instead, they went directly to chase those people in the northern grasslands, intending to save them. When the thirteen brothers were all together Then go back to Laughing Corpse Village to get back the corpse oil. They saw that we were not in a hurry to save people, and then deliberately led us away, and they went on the road to save people by themselves, which is not impossible."

"These two probabilities are equal to each other."

"If you want to catch them back, the safest way is to go back to Xiaoshizhuang and wait quietly. No matter what the possibility is, they will definitely go back to Xiaoshizhuang to get the corpse oil in the end."

"Daoist Jin'an's analysis is very reasonable." Mr. Yiyun nodded thoughtfully.

There was a lot of wind and sand at night, so Jin An raised his hands and covered the face towel tightly to prevent him from eating a mouthful of sand after being blown away by the wind and sand: "However, there is one biggest shortcoming of the method of waiting for rabbits that I mentioned."

Mr. Yiyun: "Too much time-consuming?"

Jin An smiled: "That's why it's good to talk to smart people. It's clear. That's right. It's too time-consuming for us to laugh at Shizhuang."

"And there is no guarantee that those veterans will be guarded in a short time."

"In case those veterans go to save people first and then return to the corpse farm, or if people die forever in the desert without being saved, we will never be able to guard them. Although this method can have the greatest chance of guarding those veterans, the timeline is too slow. Too long, and there is a small probability of failure."

"So I think it's better for us to continue on the road to look for Baizu. We will definitely meet those northern prairie people. Finding these people is equivalent to finding those veterans who fled."

Mr. Yiyun carefully thought about the feasibility of this matter, and finally nodded slightly: "This is a good proposal.

Talking about walking, a group of people walked more than ten miles at night to reach the camp in the ear of the desert.

Lord Yan and the mountain guard who entered the stone gate before them were already in the camp.

Those who were fascinated by the veterans and kept wandering around the wall with ghosts, had been exorcised by the monks, and they were all sitting aside with ugly faces. Even Jin An and the others just raised their eyelids when they came back. People told Jin An that they had come back safely.

Except Chipper.

"Young Master, Daoist Jin'an, you can count yourself back. Just now I saw Yan Kuan and the others coming back, but you didn't see your son coming back. I'm worried that I will be a dead slave. Just come back safely, as long as you come back safely." Qibo led the sheep and The camel came with a happy face.

At this time, those people in Ai Yimaimati still wanted to continue to come over cheekily, but they were driven away by Jin An. He had something to talk about next, and these people could not be trusted yet, and it was impossible to stay by his side to eavesdrop.

"Old Sadiq, Ilham, you were near the shed when those veterans from Xiaoshizhuang fled. Did you see what happened?" Jin An asked the three of them directly in front of Mr. Yiyun and Qibo. camel.

When Jin An asked, old Sadiq immediately exaggeratedly wronged: "Master Jin An, there are too many devils in the desert, and it is safest to follow you! We were awakened by the screams, and we still had some brains at that time. Confused, not fully awake, as if seeing the disfigured veteran, somehow tampered with the bonfire, and the bonfire turned into a ghostly green like a will-o'-the-wisp."

"At that time, we just took a look, and we were fascinated. We were walking in the dark desert all by ourselves, looking for the lost people. If Qibo hadn't arrived later and rescued us in time, we probably would have been walking in circles all the time. down."

Ilham and Sahafu on the side also nodded, saying that the scene they saw was the same as that of old Sadik.

Jin An pondered: "Did those veterans not kill anyone before they fled? Didn't they do anything to the camel?"

The three camels shook their heads together, saying that those veterans only took away their own camels and did not touch other people's camels, probably because they were worried that touching other people's camels would make noise and attract the attention of experts like Jin An and Yan Kuan, so Only the camels they raised were taken away.

As for why the veterans didn’t kill people before they fled, it’s actually very easy to understand. It’s important to escape at this time, and it’s not appropriate to make extra troubles. If you kill everyone, the Lord Yan will be furious and won’t follow Abbas the Earless to the sinkhole. Instead, they launched a relentless hunt for them, and it would be difficult for them to escape tonight.

Seeing Jin An talking to himself with the three camels, Mr. Yiyun and Qi Bo didn't change their expressions. Instead, they shocked the old Sadiq and the little Sahafu. human dialogue.

At this time, Qibo said: "Young master, during the time you have not returned, Lord Yan and his people have already discussed the itinerary for tomorrow, and they plan to go deep into the desert basin to search for centipedes along the dry ancient river. .”

After listening to Qibo's words, Mr. Yiyun subconsciously looked at Jin'an: "Sure enough, as Taoist Jin'an expected, every step of everyone here has been predicted by you."

Jin An: "This result is not surprising at all. After all, Lord Yan doesn't look like a fool. There are so many of them, and every step is considered farther than us."

Mr. Yiyun: "Master Jin'an is too self-effacing."

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Several people did not communicate overnight.

The next day.

At dawn, the camel team that had re-supplied with water, took advantage of the cool weather, and continued on the road early in the morning.

Perhaps there are still many secrets hidden in the sinkhole in the ear of the desert, but the food they carry does not allow them to waste time on some unimportant side details.

The deeper secrets of this tiankeng can only be explored when there is a chance in the future.

The three parties hurried on the road together, but they ignored each other along the way, until it was three poles in the sun, and the last Ayimamaiti team screamed, and it was Abbas the earless who woke up.

Abbas, who had been troubled all night, finally regained his clarity after being exposed to the scorching sun in the desert for half a day. He hugged his broken leg and his head wrapped in a thick blood-stained long cloth, crying out in pain.

Seeing that Abbas recovered, the others also surrounded him. After appeasing Abbas, he began to ask what happened last night?
Why did the three people who went out to relieve themselves suddenly go crazy, and suddenly appeared on the side of the sinkhole, and in the end, two died and one was heavy!
Although Abbas mutilated himself and cut off his ears, he did not completely lose his hearing and became deaf. It was just that his hearing was greatly affected, and he could not hear sounds that were too far away, and he was fine for close conversations.

Too many things happened last night, and now Abbas is still in a bad mood, he can't tell what's going on for a while, he only vaguely remembers someone calling the three of them behind his back, and he doesn't remember anything after that, Until the severe pain when the ear was cut off woke him up temporarily, and he found himself standing on the edge of the tiankeng inexplicably. He was the one who yelled the scream, but he was only awake for a moment before being possessed by the evil spirit again, and he couldn’t remember what happened next up.

Now, just thinking about the memory of last night gave him a splitting headache.

Hearing this, Jin An and Mr. Yiyun looked at each other. This symptom is a bit like crying out for the soul, and the headache after waking up is very similar to the sequelae of the soul.

People who are called out to their souls are most likely to be shocked, but according to what Abbas said, the place where they went to relieve themselves last night is still far away from the tiankeng. The legend of the mysterious voice...

Since it didn't come from the tiankeng, it was man-made. Those veterans still know how to call their souls?
Unexpectedly, this group of old men who have one foot in the coffin hide so deeply.

Seeing that Abbas couldn't get any important clues, and Abbas would have a headache as long as he recalled the memory, in the end Ai Yimaimati protected Abbas and prevented Yan Kuan and others from forcing him to ask Abbas again. Only temporarily came to an end.

For the next three or four days, the three parties continued to travel along the ancient river to the desert basin.

I don't know how wide this Yadan landform is. After walking for so many days, standing on a high place and looking at the end of the sky, it is still a vast and boundless earth and rock forest.

With such a large area of ​​Yadan landform, this basin used to be a huge lake or ocean, but later the sea turned into a mulberry field, revealing the river bed and ditches, and now has the majestic and magnificent Yadan landform.

Although there are no veterans from Xiaoshizhuang to lead the way, there is no clue to find Baizu. No matter how different civilizations are in these desert countries, they have a common characteristic throughout the ages, that is, they are built along rivers.

This ancient river originates from the deepest part of the desert basin, and flows through Baizu, Wuershi, and Guchi countries along the way. As long as you walk along the ancient river, you can find some clues related to Baizu.

On the contrary, the weather is getting more and more extreme, and the scorching heat is becoming more and more unbearable, and the water consumption rate is increasing. Strictly, to prevent the skin from being burned.

With the scorching sun overhead, the camel team walked in the Gobi desert for another two days. On this day, boom!

Several big explosions sounded over the calm desert, the camel was frightened, and several people were caught off guard and were almost thrown from the hump to the ground.

"The explosion came from over there!"

There was an explosion of dust in the sky in the northwest direction, soaring into the sky, no need to remind everyone, everyone saw the strangeness in the sky in the northwest.

The team cheered up, and after quickly calming down the camels, they began to drive the camels to the northwest with whips.

Those who appeared in the depths of the desert at this time were either the people from the northern grasslands or the veterans from Xiaoshizhuang. No matter which side they were from, they were definitely looking for Baizu!
(End of this chapter)