Across the Sky From the Stop of Time

  Chapter 396 Xiye Ancient City

  According to An Liman, Hao Shuai and the others were still more than half a day away from the ruins of the ancient city of Xiye at this time, so in order to feel the ruins of the ancient city of Xiye before dark, Hao Shuai and the others decided to travel during the day.

   You must know that in the desert, people with some experience know that they can’t travel in the daytime, but there is still enough water now, and they can replenish fresh water when they arrive at West Night City, so they marched in the desert under the scorching sun.

  The desert is vast and boundless. If it weren't for the long footprints behind me, I wouldn't even feel that I was moving forward.

  Finally, at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone arrived at the ruins of Xiye Ancient City.

  The ruins of West Night City are quite well preserved, and the city’s age is relatively late. It was not destroyed by war until the end of Tang Dynasty, and it has been abandoned until now. At the beginning of the 19th century, German explorers discovered this place and looted most of the murals and statues in the ruins and other cultural relics of artistic value.

  In the desert, there is only this empty city left, the oldest ancient channel of the Kongque River, and it ends here. Since ancient times to the present, underground water veins have passed through the city all year round, so it has become an important supply point for travelers in the desert.

  After setting up camp near a well, Hao Shuai turned over and roasted the queen ant, and said, "We will rest in this ancient city for two days before setting off. Everyone, try to eat and drink as much as possible to store up your energy in these two days."

  An Liman and Hu Bayi first agreed to Hao Shuai's suggestion. An Liman felt sorry for his camel, who had lost a lot of weight in the past few days.

   Hu Bayi was really worried that Professor Chen and the others would not be able to take it anymore. Leaving them alone, Hu Bayi felt almost exhausted.

  Professor Chen and the others wanted to act quickly, but after getting along for a while, they all knew Hao Shuai's uncompromising character and knew that he was doing it for everyone's benefit, so they agreed.

   "It smells so good!"

  As the ant queen gradually turned golden yellow, the fragrance gradually wafted out, causing Ye Yixin to cry out, and the others couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

   "Come on, everyone taste how the six-winged queen tastes."

   Soon, the queen ant was finished baking, Hao Shuai did his part to share one-third, and Hu Bayi and the others divided the remaining two-thirds among themselves.

   "Kah~~ so delicious!"

This queen ant is fat and fat, and her body is basically full of protein and fat. After one bite, there is a fragrance in the burnt yellow, oily but not greasy. meat.

  Even the emperor Hao Shuai seldom tastes this kind of delicacy. After all, such a big queen ant is hard to find.

   A group of people just gathered around the bonfire, eating barbecue, drinking the vegetable soup contributed by Shirley Yang, and chatting, especially Fatty Wang bragging there.

  But when Fatty Wang bragged, he got a little carried away, and almost revealed the fact that they were fighting at Niuxin Mountain. Fortunately, Hu Bayi reacted quickly, and immediately reminded Fatty Wang with a cough, so he didn't leak his words.

  It's a pity that Hu Bayi and the others can't hide it from Professor Chen and the others, but they can't hide it from Shirley Yang, who was born in the Duodou family. At this time, Shirley Yang has already looked at the two of them suspiciously.

   Seeing this, Hao Shuai felt that there was an opportunity to call these three people out in the past two days, and have an open and honest talk, because the two sides in the province are always so suspicious of each other, which affects the unity of the team.

  Hao Shuai also wanted to train Hu Bayi, the Iron Triangle, and when he became interested in the future, he would come to this world to fight with the three of them, hunt for treasure or something, and relax.

   This is also the reason why Hao Shuai didn't dare to behave unscrupulously. He was afraid that the relevant departments would miss him, so he couldn't go out and hang around.

After eating and drinking, everyone started to wash up. Because of the problem of water resources, everyone didn't care much about washing up, especially the two women Ye Yixin and Xueli Yang, who didn't know how long they hadn't showered or washed their hair. .

  Now that there is Gujing, he boiled water to wash without any scruples, and only Hao Shuai and Fatty Hu Bayi remained indifferent.

  Hao Shuai doesn’t need it. With his current strength, being warm in winter and cool in summer is a basic operation, and he often finds time to go to other worlds to take a bath.

   Fatty Wang also wanted to wash up, but was dragged by Hu Bayi to smoke on a sand dune not far away. Hao Shuai knew that it was Hu Bayi who went to educate Fatty Wang.

  The two chatted for a while, Hu Bayi hurried back, took out the compass from his package and placed it for a while, looking up at the stars in the sky from time to time.

  Hu Bayi's behavior immediately caught the attention of Professor Chen and the others who were about to go to bed. They gathered around Hu Bayi one after another. Professor Chen asked curiously: "Comrade Hu, what did you find?"

After looking at it for a while, Hu Bayi replied: "Professor Chen, there should be a large tomb here, which is where a treasure land is located. Jumen star, Zuofu star, Youbi star, and three stars shine, arranged in an equilateral triangle, with the sun in the center. Xingtaiyinxing is obvious, what a group of Qianjiajinjixing."

  No one present could understand the latter words, except for a fake Taoist priest like Hao Shuai, but everyone really heard the previous sentence 'there is a big tomb'.

   "Where is it?" Hao Aiguo asked eagerly.

   "It's in that well!" Hu Bayi still wanted to make calculations, but Hao Shuai directly said the answer.

   "Patriotic, Xiao Chu, hurry up, get the tools, let's go to that well."

After getting the position, Professor Chen hurriedly ordered loudly, and then ran to Gujing with his legs free. Good guy, Professor Chen ran, even the two strong young men Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang Can't catch up with him.

  Other members of the archaeological team also quickly ran to the ancient well with tools.

   Looking at the team, which was full of morale all of a sudden, as if it had been beaten to death, Hao Shuai slowly followed.

In fact, Hao Shuai thought that in order to save time, he planned to influence Hu Bayi and prevent him from discovering the ancient tomb in the well. Later, seeing that the team had been in the desert for so long, they had no gains for a while, which gradually weakened the morale of the archaeological team, and even caused They felt negative emotions, so they wanted to use the ancient tomb to stimulate Professor Chen's morale.

   Now it seems that the effect is awesome!

  After some research, everyone confirmed that there was an underground river under the ancient well and a large tomb next to it, so they decided to go down to find out.

  However, An Liman strongly opposed Professor Chen's digging of ancient tombs, and always believed that they were here to rob tombs. No matter how Professor Chen explained that they belonged to the national archaeological team and not tomb robbers, it would not help.

   Hao Shuai, who was watching the excitement, said to An Liman: National Archaeological Team? That's not the same as tomb robbery. I deeply agree with this statement, it is indeed the same, the only difference is that the archaeological team is legal.

  Finally, after Professor Chen and the others painstakingly explained for a long time, An Liman angrily allowed them to go down.

   But for safety reasons, Hu Bayi suggested that he go down to explore the road first, and after confirming that there is a tomb, he organizes Professor Chen and the others to go down the well.

  Hao Shuai agreed with Hu Bayi's safe opinion. Although Hao Shuai also knew that there was no danger down here, he still deliberately made an unnecessary move in order to let Professor Chen and the others know how to obey the arrangement.

  Hu Bayi was very efficient. He completed the pathfinding work within ten minutes and confirmed the existence of the ancient tomb below.

  At this moment, Professor Chen and the others couldn't sit still any longer, and immediately prepared tools and planned to go down the well.

   "Everyone is tired today, let's have a good night's rest first, and go down tomorrow morning!" Hao Shuai stepped forward to stop them.

   "Daoist Hao, this~~" Professor Chen was a little anxious.

  But seeing Hao Shuai's unconsulting eyes, he could only say helplessly: "Okay!"

  (end of this chapter)