Chapter 76 Voice from the Well

Xiao Ran returned to the stone house where he camped, and saw Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang talking and laughing, boiling water and making tea. His second uncle was also sorting out the supplies that had just been moved in. The others were lying on the felt cloth, already asleep.

There was so much going on that even Professor Chen was leaning against the wall and nodding his head.

Especially Fatty Wang, who was lying there with half of the cake in his mouth, snoring like a canopy descending from the earth.

Hu Bayi picked up a few broken pottery pots in the corner of the house, asked Xiao Ran to mix a few pots of warm water, woke everyone up to soak their feet, and removed the bubbles caused by the long journey, and then let everyone go to sleep again.

Seeing that night was falling, Xiao Ran was very tired after the day's torment, so he pulled out a piece of felt and started snoring as soon as he lay down.

In the dream, he vaguely saw the man in black holding the hair seal, walking in and out of the house, and he didn't know what he was busy with. But he was so tired that he couldn't remember anything except this little impression.

Other things, the dream also gradually dissipated.

He was woken up by a burst of exclamations and saw that everyone had woken up and were chatting around the fire. The sky outside was already dark, and it seemed that he had not slept for a long time.

"You guys woke up so soon?" Xiao Ran greeted everyone with a yawn.

Hu Bayi smiled and said: "What's so fast? We've been sleeping all day and night. Fortunately, my second uncle was watching us yesterday, otherwise we would have had to let the wolf take away one or two."

Xiao Ran opened his eyes wide after hearing this, turned to look at the three corpses of sand wolves with holes in their heads by the wall, and then looked at the proud-looking second uncle sitting next to Professor Chen. He couldn't help but sigh at how quickly the second uncle integrated into the group.

But it's much faster than him. This is an instinct honed over many years of traveling around.

Hu Bayi and An Liman dragged Lang out, skinned and cut the meat. After a while, the wolf meat was placed on the fire and roasted until it was sizzling with oil.

"I didn't expect to eat fresh barbecue here, thank you Uncle Xiao!" several students said.

The fat man tore off a piece of roasted wolf leg meat and stuffed it into his mouth, and said, "I have to thank Uncle Xiao for saving his life. But when it comes to barbecue, this wolf meat is still too dry and woody, not as good as the game in the old forests of the Northeast."

, especially in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains, where since ancient times we have been beating roe deer with sticks and scooping out fish, and pheasants flying into the rice pot.”

Several students were aroused by his words and asked him to speak more.

The fat man licked his lips and embellished the story about his experience when he jumped in line and his last experience at Yerengou. He omitted the plot of Dou'er, and regarded all the experiences told by Yingzi as his own, such as how to hunt along the way and how to find mountain delicacies.

He also talked about how he found a giant pig-faced bat and a giant prairie otter in a cave, and how he led hunting dogs to hunt the nearly one thousand kilogram wild boar.

The words shocked several people with admiration, and they all yearned for the rich materials in the old forests of Northeast China. Even academics like Professor Chen and Hao Aiguo looked curious and nodded constantly.

The second uncle took advantage of this moment to go to Xiao Ran and whisper: "There's something wrong with that old guy An Liman. Last night when everyone was sleeping, he slipped out by himself. I followed him to have a look, and he went to the ancient well in the city.

Bian. I originally thought he was worried about the camel, but I saw him kneeling in front of the well muttering, I guess that well is not simple."

Xiao Ran nodded and said nothing more. Of course he knew that the well was not simple, and he had to explore it tonight.

At this moment, Shirley Yang suddenly interrupted the fat man's eloquence: "The types of animals and plants in the desert are no less than those in the forest. Moreover, the desert we are in now was also the pinnacle of civilization in the Western Regions in ancient times. In addition to wild beasts, the forest

Trees, anything else?"

The corner of the fat man's mouth twitched twice, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly. Upon seeing this, Hu Ba quickly pulled the fat man up: "Let's go out and have a smoke. There is a lady in the house..."

Xiao Ran also quickly stood up, picked up the compass next to Hu Bayi's backpack and followed him out.

When they got outside, Hu Bayi lit up a cigarette and persuaded the fat man to give in to Shirley Yang. Firstly, she was a womanizer, and secondly, she was the boss who gave her money. There was no need to go head-to-head with her.

The fat man snorted and said that if it hadn't been for the fact that he was a foreigner and a woman, he would have torn off his head and used it as a ball.

Xiao Ran led the two of them to chat while climbing to the top of the nearby tower. Because there was almost no vegetation, the moon and stars were numerous in the desert night, and the sky was clear and picturesque. Xiao Ran said to Hu Bayi: "Brother Hu, look at the stars in the sky.

, this kind of scenery is rare in our place."

Hu Bayi blew out a smoke ring and looked at the sky, thoughtfully. He suddenly threw away the cigarette butt and turned around to go back. Xiao Ran quickly handed him the compass in his hand and said with a smile: "I originally wanted you to teach me.

As for the Tianxing Technique, I brought it to you."

Hu Bayi didn't think much, took the compass, looked at the sky, and said to the two of them: "Look, the giant stars in the sky, the left auxiliary star, and the right star just form a right triangle, and the lunar and sun stars are aligned.

Among them, this is a group of dry armor and golden auspicious stars. There must be ancient tombs next to the underground water veins below..."

As he spoke, he pointed his finger downwards at the ancient well in the city.

The fat man said in surprise: "In the well? There are still people who bury their tombs in the well?"

After saying that, he retched for a while. All the water he drank in the past two days was drawn from that well.

Xiao Ran comforted him: "If there is really a tomb in the well, maybe a tomb can be dug out of the well wall. Didn't Brother Hu say that it has to be next to the underground water veins? If the corpse is soaked in water, it will all be floating.

, what a feng shui treasure it is.”

Hu Ba nodded and said: "Brother Xiao is right, this is important news, we have to tell the archaeological team. If something is found here, they may not insist on entering the Black Desert.

.”

The three people quickly returned to the stone house and told Professor Chen about Hu Bayi's discovery. Professor Chen was immediately overjoyed and rushed to the ancient well with Hao Aiguo and the students, wanting to go down and have a look.

An Liman, who was feeding camels by the well, saw this and rushed to the well to block everyone: "No, no, no! This is a holy well! Hu Da will be angry if a mortal goes in!"

Hao Aiguo on the side hurriedly came over and took his arm, talking about policies to him and explaining his emotions to him. In addition to saying that excavation and exploration were also for protection, otherwise foreigners or tomb robbers would also rob Anli and move them out.

Hu Da, who Man Man believed in the most, told him that since the stars in the sky gave guidance, it must be Hu Da's will.

Xiao Ran stood behind the crowd and listened to Hao Aiguo's fallacies. He felt funny in his heart that this old-fashioned intellectual had actually learned to prescribe the right medicine.

Anyway, Hao Aiguo was responsible for the persuasion work. He was happy to stand behind the crowd and stay out of the matter, as long as he waited to go down the well together.

He suddenly felt a movement in his chest and took out Bai Jiuguo's pendant. Bai Jiuguo's compass pointed in the direction of the ancient well again. Beside the ancient well, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and others were still discussing how to go down the well, while Hao Aiguo was still there.

Pulling and tugging with An Liman.

He said impatiently to Bai Jiukuo: "I know, I know, aren't we going to go down now? I didn't say a word along the way, just poking here and there..."

He stuffed the pendant back into his arms, and then a voice suddenly floated into his ears along the breeze. The voice was far and near, with an echo, as if coming from an ancient well, and kept repeating three words:

"Help me..."
Chapter completed!