The Niya ruins are 7 kilometers wide from east to west and 25 kilometers long from north to south. They are scattered along the ancient riverbed of the Niya River and are located on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert about 100 kilometers north of Minfeng County.

In the third century AD, the Niya River, which originated from the Lushtarg Glacier in the Kunlun Mountains, extended northward through this place. At that time, it was still a prosperous oasis. The Niya site was a east-west transportation fortress on the southern "Silk Road" of the Western Regions during the Han and Jin Dynasties.

Walking on the vast desert, looking around, there are only monotonous colors, majestic and quiet.

The silent sea of ​​sand is like the surging waves that have frozen in an instant, like empty waves, and will never move.

At the early morning sunrise, the entire desert was shrouded in the morning glow, and the colors seemed very soft. The orange-red sun also merged into the hazy morning light and floated unsteadily.

A neat team of camels were marching on the beautifully lined sand dunes.

The big bell crotch under the camel's neck was vaguely visible, and the towering hump and huge body were covered with a layer of rays of light. The six camels were sequentially sporting, strideing calmly.

The camel team was a meteorite scientific expedition team, and they were heading towards the ruins of the small stone house about five kilometers northwest of the Niya site.

The Camel Corps was naturally led by Uncle Kurban, behind him were Yuan Shichen and Lu Qinglian, and there was also a camel carrying various detection and excavation tools and outdoor daily necessities. Chen Xi and Lin Feng followed closely at the tail of the Camel Corps.

The weather is still good today, and occasionally a slight whirlwind appears in the desert, rolling up the yellow sand like smoke rising from the ground, and it is running back and forth in the desert.

Uncle Kurban stood on the sand dune and looked down below.

The uncle said that when the wind blows, even the sand dunes will be blown away everywhere.

So he was constantly identifying the exact direction from the continuous, high and low dunes.

Everyone rode the desert boat, leaving two rows of deep hoof prints behind him. Yuan Shichen talked to Uncle Kurban from time to time.

What shocked everyone was that he, who knew nothing about Uyghur yesterday, actually opened his mouth and spoke in a very simple Uyghur today.

"Wow, Qingchen, when did you learn Uyghur language?" Lu Qinglian said she was incredible when she saw this scene.

"I just used my rest time last night to simply learn the common spoken language of Uyghur." Harashi Chen explained to everyone in a low-key manner.

"Please, please don't use the words [just] and [simple]. Do you know if you will have critical damage to us?" Lin Feng also shouted from the side.

"What do I want to say? Can't I just pretend to be a X quietly?" Yuan Shichen was helpless. Every time he encountered something similar, whether it was high-profile or low-key,

In the end, there will be suspicion of pretending.

"Hey, the study maniac at Tsinghua University really kills everything in seconds!" In this way, everyone sighed all the way.

After walking intermittently towards the target for about 3 hours, after turning a particularly undulating dunes, everyone finally saw the remains of the small stone house.

At this moment, the ruins that have been eroded by wind and sand for a long time seem so desolate in the vast desert.

Everyone could no longer hold back and rushed to the ruins of the small stone house.

According to the remaining wall outline, the small stone house covers an area of ​​about fifty square meters, with only a few three small houses.

The whole stone house is made of limestone, but it has been destroyed by thousands of years of wind and sand and the baptism of the passing of time.

At this time, the stone house in front of everyone was no longer the same as before. The only remaining stone walls were as broken as bodies without a bracket, and even a piece of rubble was not left behind.

In the ruins of the stone house, Uncle Kurban was excitedly pointing at a broken corner.

The corner of the wall is located at the remains of a slightly larger room. There, everyone found a broken stone table leaning against the corner of the wall.

There is a small storage space at the bottom of the stone table, and Uncle Kurban said that he discovered meteorites and other things here.

Of course, a year has passed, and the storage space of the stone table has long been occupied by yellow sand.

"This ruins from nearly two thousand years ago are so inconspicuous." Chen Xi, who has always been taciturn, said after looking around.

"By the way, it's hard to find out what it has to do with meteorites." Even Lu Qinglian complained quite disappointedly.

"Uncle Kurban just said that this place was buried by a sand dune. It was only last year when the wind and sand blew away the dunes, and the ruins were revealed." Yuan Shichen said after pondering for a while.

"It seems that the ruins that have been buried for thousands of years suddenly saw the light of day again, just to see us." Lin Feng said with emotion.

"You archaeology majors are really imaginative." Chen Xi said with a sarcastic look on his face.

"Ha, Qingchen, I suggest that everyone move the tools on the camel's body. Let's use the instrument to detect whether there are metal objects underground." Lin Feng glanced at Chen Xi awkwardly and immediately began to change the topic.

In the next time, everyone was busy digging sand, knocking on the walls, and scanning every corner of the stone house with metal detectors.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as expected. After more than two hours of hard work, I found nothing except a few broken pottery pieces.

Everyone gradually showed signs of fatigue. Lu Qinglian and Chen Xi had already stopped searching and wiped the sweat beads on their faces.

Uncle Kurban was teasing camels for fun not far away, and only two boys, Naichen and Lin Feng, were still busy beating around.

It was almost noon and the sunshine in the desert gradually became stronger.

Yuan Naichen and others also felt that it was getting hotter and harder. Fortunately, there were gusts of wind from time to time. Although it was dusty, it also had a bit of a relief.

Suddenly, Uncle Kurban, who had been staying by the ruins, rushed towards Yuan Shichen and the others with a look of panic on his face.

"Bad, bad!" Uncle Kurban shouted while running, "The sandstorm is coming, the sandstorm is coming!"

Yuan Shichen and the other two immediately stopped their work and looked in the direction that Uncle Kurban pointed.

I saw that the sky in the west was already gray, and the sky in the distance seemed to have suddenly changed color. The skyline drifted, with the sun shining on one side and the wind and sand dancing wildly.

For those who have lived in the border areas of Lop Nur for a long time, the invasion of sandstorms is not used to, but the sudden drop in wind and sand in this sunny weather really surprised Uncle Kurban.

Everyone was busy before, and they ignored the changes in the weather. When they noticed, the sound of the wind was already whimpering, occasionally with a scream or two, the flying gravel kept hitting everyone's faces.

Lu Qinglian and Chen Xi were already panicked, and they never expected that the bloody scene that appeared in the TV series would happen to them.

Yuan Naichen and Lin Feng were a little calm and pulled Uncle Kurban to discuss solutions.

Uncle Kurban said that people cannot escape the wind and sand. If you walk back at this time, you will only be lost in the wind and sand.

The most appropriate way is to gather all the stones in the stone house, build a bunker, and let the camels block the entrance of the bunker to resist the wind and sand together.

The situation was critical, and everyone was not worried about panic. They all threw their arms and accumulated other stones into a slightly complete corner, and quickly built a bunker wall against the wind.

In the wind and sand all over the sky, everyone leaned tightly behind the bunker, and six camels surrounded the outer edge of the bunker to protect everyone.

Although it is protected by eye masks and masks, it is still so difficult to breathe every time.

The strong wind continued to rage, the sun had already hidden away from where it was. The sky and the earth became darker and gloomy, and no one knew how long the sandstorm would last.

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Chapter completed!