Chapter 20: The Sand Sea Ship

"What is this?" Tashi murmured to himself.

No one can tell what this is. I can only be sure that this is a wreck of an ancient wood object, but I don’t know what it is. At first glance, it looks like a huge coffin, but when I look closely, I find that the shape is wrong, and it seems to be a wreck of a building. However, I have never seen such a strange-shaped building.

"Climb up and take a look!" We realized after someone said that. They wanted to climb up the slope, so I hurriedly stopped them and said, "Don't be chaotic, calm down, it's so high, and it's a mound, you can't climb up just by climbing. If something goes wrong, it's bad."

Aning also nodded and said, "Yes, those three people have not been found yet. We have searched all of them below and found no clues. Then it is very likely that they are on it, and there is no movement at all now, so there must be problems. Maybe there is any danger on it, so we must be careful. I'll go up first. If it's easier to climb, you can come up again."

As she said that, she inserted the flashlight into her belt and asked us to light her and prepare to climb up.

At this time, Tashi stopped her and said, "Don't move, I'll do it. There is no reason for women to do this kind of thing. I've climbed a lot of this kind of mound before. It's definitely more experienced than you." Without waiting for Aning to respond, he bit the dagger, jumped onto the mound, and then used the dagger as a mountaineering pickaxe, and began to climb upwards.

He moved very quickly and his posture was as quick as a monkey. We shine him with a flashlight, and almost no energy was used. We just watched him climb under the huge object. He found a place to stand firmly and made a gesture to us. It meant that it was not difficult to climb, so he shone the thing with the flashlight.

Below we can only see his movements, and we can't see what he saw. We were very anxious. The team doctor asked, "What is that?"

"I don't know." Taxi's voice came from above. I saw him scratching his head, making a Tibetan word, and then said, "God, this... looks like a ship."

"Boat?" We looked at each other. Tashi shouted again: "It's really a boat! You climb up and take a look."

As soon as he finished speaking, Aning climbed up. I was clumsy and followed Aning. The team doctor was too fat and slid down after crawling for a few times. We asked him to stay below, don't mess around, and wait for a while and die. Then we moved closer to Taxi.

This slope is indeed not difficult to climb, and it is a bit slope. Although the soil is very soft, it is very uneven. We can settle in many places. We learned to use a dagger as a mountaineering pickaxe, and we leaned over it in just a few seconds.

I climbed to the edge of Tashi with my hands and feet, which was very cold. I stepped on several protruding earth buns, slid a little, and then stood firm, and looked at the thing. But I was far away and my vision was blocked by Tashi again, and I couldn't see whether the ship was a real boat.

I moved a little and squeezed out a position for myself. Then I saw clearly. Under the flashlight of Tashi, an ancient wreckage was embedded in the mound, only half of which was exposed, and the other half was deeply inserted into the mound. Judging from the shape, it was indeed an ancient shipwreck.

Aning lit a cold firework and threw it on the wreck. At this time, it lit up around and I found that the wreck's disintegration was very serious. It almost melted into the mud. The wood hull was completely broken and had been charred. There was a huge crack on one side of the wooden boat. It seemed that there was an open space inside, and I could see the mud inside, but the deepest part was pitch black and could not be seen clearly.

I turned to look at the surrounding landforms and thought that this was a great discovery. This place should have been an ancient river channel before. This ancient ship sank in the ancient river channel and was wrapped in mud. Unexpectedly, the river channel in ancient times turned into a Gobi, and the mound wrapped in the wreck was so much higher than the ground.

Aning climbed to the edge of the ancient ship and shone the crack with a flashlight, which illuminated a lot of mud and things wrapped in mud. In mud, you can also see many things like clay pots.

Aning said: "This seems to be a cargo ship heading to the Western Regions for trade. These are their goods. This is a shocking discovery. Now many people believe that there is no water transportation in the Western Regions."

In ancient times, this place was a relatively dangerous place among the seventeen Silk Roads, and the countries in the Western Regions were distributed on this barren land. This was the middle area of ​​the transaction between Arab civilization and Chinese civilization. In the past, countless rivers here were very busy. I don’t know how many cloths and silks arrived at the West through these rivers. It is said that the royal families of Western-speaking countries could still eat watermelons from the Central Plains. At that time, the rivers here were ever-changing, and many business travelers were stranded and sunk because of the ancient river diversion. At least thousands of desert ships were buried deep in the desert. However, because the desert changes too frequently, it was almost impossible to find. Unexpectedly, there was one here.

The team doctor couldn't see anything below, and shouted anxiously: "What do you see? Are those three people on it?"

Taxi called him a few times to answer him, but the team doctor couldn't hear clearly what he said again.

At this time, I suddenly thought of the Caucasians. Maybe they climbed up to check because they saw this wrecked ship. They had searched all the people below, but they should be on top. But I just saw the cliffs around them, and there were no ones. Where did these three people go?

There is no other place to hide people except this shipwreck. Could it be that the three people are inside this shipwreck?

At this time, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and the surroundings suddenly became darker. All of us found a place to stand firm. I asked Aning to turn on the intercom and then find the location of the signal.

Aning took out the intercom and turned it on, the sound rang out. It was very clear. She waved it for a while, and the signal was almost the same. Then Zhaxi pointed to the ship and asked her to aim it at the ancient ship to try. Aning stretched over, and as soon as she approached the crack of the ancient ship, we really heard an extremely clear sound coming out of the intercom.

We looked at each other and felt incredible. It seemed that the signal was really sent from this ancient shipwreck.

Tashi looked at the crack and said, "It's really a hell, did those three idiots crawl inside?"

The crack was very wide and I could indeed climb into people, but I don’t know if the space here could accommodate the three of them. We shone it with a flashlight and found that the inside of the boat was very deep and the inside was very dark. I shouted several times, but no one responded.

"what to do?"

"Maybe they've been in, but they've come out again. And then they dropped the walkie-talkie inside." Aning said, "It's also possible that they've had an accident inside."

"Then how does this sound come out?" I asked.

"No one can answer you, but you'll know if you go in and take a look." Aning winked at me, then put down his backpack, as if he wanted me and her to go in and take a look.

Taxi is the guide. He wants to preserve his strength. The body shape of Aning and I are relatively normal here, and I can't say it's not possible. She took off her coat, bit her dagger, and then crawled into the crack first.

As soon as she entered, the mud on the hull kept falling down. Fortunately, the hull was relatively strong. She stopped for a few seconds after entering, and after a steady stream, Taxi handed her the flashlight. Then I took off my coat and crawled in.

This crack happened to allow me to climb in, but it was wider than I thought. I went in clumsyly and found that it was a world of mud inside, with dry mud above my head, so people couldn't sit up, so they could only crawl forward. Originally, the space in the cabin should be very large. However, now it is basically full of soil, and we are actually in a mud hole.

Aning was turning on the walkie-talkie and was clearly making a sneering sound. The sound was particularly loud here. Looking at the inside of the cabin, my heart was raised to my throat. What was making that sound?

Aning used a side-climbing position inside, which was the movement of a soldier dragging his gun and crawling forward. She moved forward with one hand, and the other hand started to shine around with a flashlight. I panted and imitated her, and also began to use the flashlight to shine the mud around. It was really all mud, except for some wood chips embedded in the mud that could be seen everywhere. I felt like I was in a tunnel battle scene.

These must have been the soil pouring in from the thunder after the shipwreck. The ship at that time should not have completely sunk. So the mud did not fill the entire cabin. The cargo under these mud should be the cargo of the time, and I don’t know what was transported inside.

After climbing seven or eight meters inside, we could hear that strange sound directly. The sound sounded slightly different without the walkie-talkie. It was made from the innermost part of the cabin, very light. Aning stopped, turned off the walkie-talkie, and crawled in the direction of the sound.

I kept a distance from her a little, giving her space to retreat. Before I could climb a few steps, Aning screamed and stopped. I also quickly climbed over and leaned over from her side, and saw a hole the size of a round table on the "deck" covered with soil at the end of the cabin, which seemed to collapse. There was still space below. I shone it down with a flashlight, and the bottom was messed up, all of which were collapsed from above. I buried it alone, revealing only the upper body.

I shone it with a flashlight and found that it was one of the missing people, with mud on their faces and a blue face. I don’t know whether it was death or life. The sneering voice came from the mound of soil below.

"It's really inside!" I screamed, thinking that these people are so playful. I yelled and squeezed forward, trying to go down and dig him out quickly.

Unexpectedly, when I suddenly screamed, the sneering sound disappeared, and the entire cabin suddenly became quiet.

This quiet scared me and my hands and feet stopped involuntarily.

Then I thought that we just discussed that this sound was their distress signal. Now I shouted, and the sound stopped. Obviously someone heard my cry, so he stopped sending the signal. There are two possibilities: one is that he thought that rescue was already around and there was no need to make such sound to attract us again; the other is. When he heard us coming, his beliefs were relaxed and he lost consciousness.

No matter which one is, we must rescue him immediately, especially the latter one. I know that many people who ask for help lose their will to survive the moment they were saved and failed.

Aning had the same idea as me, so she asked me to light her and crawled over. Then she carefully turned over and slid into the hole. I followed her and Aning asked me to stop coming down and responded on it.

Taxi heard my scream outside, shouted at us, and asked about the situation inside. I asked him to wait, and I'll see clearly before talking.

It can be seen more clearly at this location. Below the entrance of the cave, there should be the second floor of the ancient ship's cargo warehouse. Or the bottom warehouse. It is generally used to place some things that are easily damaged, because the bottom shaking will not be very intense. The bottom ware has little space and is full of soil, but the degree of erosion is far less than where I am staying. I can basically imagine that this is the inside of a ship, and I can see a lot of clay pots mixed in the soil. It should be cargo, and I don't know what it contains.

After Aning went down, he immediately pushed away the dirt on the man's body and put his hand on his neck. Feel the pulse.

I hurriedly asked, "How is it?"

Aning trembled obviously for a moment, turned around and shook his head at me, indicating that it was no longer possible.
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