Across the Sky From the Stop of Time

  Chapter 398 The Stone Tomb in the Desert

Because of the discovery of the tomb of Prince Gumo, Hao Shuai and the others stayed in Xiye Ancient City for an extra day. It was not until the morning of the third day that everyone packed up their things, filled everything that could hold water, and set foot on the search for Jingjue Ancient City again. the way.

  As for the tomb of Prince Gumo, it was sealed up by Professor Chen and the others as in the plot, and they wanted to slowly open the coffin for research later.

  The sun in the sky is very poisonous, everyone feels as if they are about to be roasted, and they keep replenishing water, for fear of being exposed to the sun and drying them out.

After traveling like this for a few days, Hao Shuai and his team have already penetrated into the black desert. There is no Populus euphratica here anymore, and there are no undulating sand hills. The surrounding sand dunes have similar heights, like flat buns. , boundless, on the ground, from any angle, it is the same scenery, without any sign of life.

   At this time, even An Liman, known as the living map of the desert, had never been here. He could only lead the archaeological team forward with his years of experience in the desert.

Fortunately, Shirley Yang still has the notebook left by the British explorers. It records that after leaving West Night City, those explorers discovered a place nearby with a large number of stone tombs. Excavations were carried out, so detailed routes were drawn in notes.

  An Liman's experience and Shirley Yang's notebook, although it is impossible to accurately locate, but in terms of distance and direction, it has provided us with great help, so that the group will not deviate from the general direction.

  In the evening, a group of people found a protruding land and prepared to set up camp. While others were busy building a sand-proof wall on the sand dune and setting up camels, Xueli Yang took a notebook and brought Hu Bayi to find Hao Shuai.

   "Daoist Hao, according to the route in the notebook, there should be a large number of stone tombs in this area. Why are there nothing around now?" Shirley Yang asked, pointing to the notebook.

  Hao Shuai took the notebook and looked at it. Combined with the plot, he knew that this should be the place where Ye Yixin fell into the quicksand. Thinking that Comrade Xiaoye is pitiful enough, it is better not to let her be frightened again!

  So Hao Shuai returned the notebook to Shirley Yang, turned around and walked around, then pointed to the yellow sand under his feet and said, "Come here, a few of you, dig down from here."

  Hearing Hao Shuai's words, Shirley Yang was the first to react. She said, "Master Daoist, you mean that the stone tomb is under the sand?"

   "That's right, because of the movement of the dunes, the stone tomb was covered by sand." Hao Shuai affirmed.

  The reason why he was so sure was because Hao Shuai sensed that one or two meters below the sand was an empty space.

  As soon as they heard that there was a tomb, Professor Chen and the others didn’t even set up a tent, and rushed over with Chu Jian and the others with tools, and started digging down with a shovel.

   It didn't take long for everyone to dig down one or two meters deep. Under a not-so-thick layer of yellow sand, parallel to the **** of the dune, a sloping stone wall was exposed, and a big hole was broken in the stone wall.

"It was definitely exploded by explosives. And it is definitely an expert. The blasting force is directed outwards. Look at the broken stones at the entrance of the hole, and the precise small-scale directional blasting." Hu Bayi, who was born as an engineer, saw this at a glance. It was a hole blasted out with dynamite.

  Speaking of this, Hu Bayi hesitated for a moment, and continued: "And this is definitely produced by military TNT."

  Hu Bayi's words caused the people present to fall into silence for a moment. They all understood that the group of tomb robbers had military explosives, which meant that they were not ordinary tomb robbers, but probably armed tomb robbers with weapons.

   "You don't care about the explosives. If you want to dig it, dig it quickly. If you don't dig it, lead them to camp and rest." Hao Shuai, who was next to them, saw that they were struggling to dig a hole, and urged them directly.

   Everyone turned their heads to look at Hao Shuai, thinking of his formidable strength, the worry about the tomb robbers disappeared at once, so they immediately cleaned up the yellow sand on the stone tomb.

  With the clearing of the yellow sand, a mallet-shaped stone wall was exposed. This is a typical stone tomb in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Huge and thick rocks are built into an arched shape, and the gaps are glued with hemp fish glue. Such stone tombs are very common near the Xiye ruins.

Now these stone tombs have been completely covered by the desert, and it is difficult to find their traces. Professor Chen estimated that it may be related to the big sandstorm a few days ago. The thief stole it.

   Speaking of this, Professor Chen felt a little regretful, only regretting that he hadn't come here earlier, so that he could stop that nasty tomb robber.

  The hole in the tomb was dark. Professor Chen Hao Aiguo and others jumped in with flashlights. The tomb is not very big, only about the size of a small bungalow.

  Everyone looked around, and there were four or five wooden coffins scattered inside.

   "What kind of tomb do you think this is? There is nothing there." Fatty Wang complained.

  Hao Aiguo said angrily: "If you are a tomb robber, will you leave something for the people behind?!"

   "I'm always down~~~" Fatty Wang started talking nonsense again. Fortunately, Hu Bayi was smart and quickly pushed Fatty Wang.

   "What are you pouring?" Hao Aiguo asked.

  At this moment, Fatty Wang received death stares from Hu Bayi, Xue Liyang, and Hao Shuai, and knew that he almost slipped his tongue, so he said with some guilt: "I was unlucky, I knocked it off."

   Seeing Fatty Wang round up his words, Hao Shuai and the others looked away. At the same time, Hao Shuai thought that he should increase the amount of training against Fatty Wang, otherwise he would still be full of energy, thinking about fighting all day long.

   "Professor, there is still a mummy here." Chu Jian, who was in charge of taking pictures, said, pointing to a coffin.

  The ancient corpse in the coffin is the mummy of a young woman with long braided hair, and only the head is relatively well preserved.

  Ignoring Professor Chen's classification of ancient corpses for popular science, Hao Shuai directly observed the mummy in the coffin.

  Unfortunately, as expected, the mummy didn't have the slightest breath on it.

  At first, I was thinking that this mummy is more than a thousand years old. If it doesn’t mean that it won’t become a zombie, then it should have more or less corpse gas, but now it seems that I think too much.

  The formation of zombies is really not that easy.

  Disappointed, Hao Shuai went straight out of the tomb, followed by Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang, leaving Professor Chen and the others there to rescue the ancient tomb.

   Not long after, when Hao Shuai and the others were drinking and chatting there, Professor Chen brought Hao Aiguo to find Hao Shuai and the others.

   "Little Hu~~"

   "Professor, what's the matter?" Hu Bayi asked.

   "I came here just to tell you something. The ancient tomb was stolen within three to five days." Professor Chen analyzed.

   "Professor, what do you mean?" Hu Bayi asked doubtfully.

   "The professor means that there may be a group of tomb robbers who have entered the depths of the Black Desert earlier than us. We can't delay. It's best to catch up with them." Hao Aiguo said.

   "Catch them? Professor Chen, Professor Hao, what are you going to use to catch them? Use the old shotgun in the fat man's hand? Or call the police to catch them?" Hao Shuai asked seriously.

   "This~~" Hao Aiguo was stunned by Hao Shuai and was speechless for a while.

   "Besides, do you think you can catch up with those professional tomb robbers with your physique and speed?" Hao Shuai made another stab.

  (end of this chapter)