Chapter 14 Night in Stone City II
Zhang Lin threw the bone in his hand and said, "Boss Yang, do you have a dog?"
Seeing that Shirley Yang didn't speak, he asked again: "Where is the cat?"
"You don't even raise one?" Zhang Lin asked doubtfully, "That's not possible. I heard that don't all of you rich people like to raise cats and dogs?"
"Oh!" Zhang Lin clapped his head and said, "I forgot! With Boss Yang's worth, he has to raise tigers and crocodiles to make him look rich."
Shirley Yang said: "Just say what you want to say!"
Ye Yixin said: "Brother Zhang, did you discover something?"
"Nothing, I just thought of a story."
When everyone heard this, they wondered: "What story?"
This story:
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a kingdom in this desert, and there was an evil super ghost in the kingdom. He committed very sinful crimes during his lifetime.
But the laws of the kingdom were used to sentence him, but they could not cleanse him of his sins.
So... the king sent an envoy to the Eastern Land, which is our country, where he consulted our ancestors about our ancient criminal law, and after learning it, he came back to punish the predecessor of this evil ghost.
The envoy learned a lot about criminal law, and after returning to the kingdom, he made suggestions to the king.
Finally... the king decided to execute the evil ghost's predecessor.
They skinned the evil ghost, and then performed the most cruel torture method in ancient times, scraping the evil ghost's predecessor with a total of 3,600 cuts. In the end, all that was left of the evil ghost's predecessor was the white bones without a trace of flesh and blood.
However, the evil ghost is not guilty because he was framed and the real criminal threatened him with his family, so he had to accept everything.
However, after the death of the evil ghost's predecessor, the criminal behind the scenes did not fulfill his promise. Instead, he encouraged the king to kill his family and wipe out his nine clans.
Finally, the evil ghost became so angry that he began to take revenge.
On the last day of the evil ghost's execution, dark clouds rolled over the entire kingdom. The ghosts in the black clouds were weeping and screaming, and their bodies were weeping in grief.
When the sun rose the next day, the entire kingdom had lost all vitality. Numerous bones were hanging on the eaves of the tall buildings.
Human, horse...even flea...
later……
"That's enough..." Shirley Yang stopped Zhang Lin and said, "The story is good. Are you saying it was done by evil spirits?"
"No, you don't believe it?" Seeing everyone looking at him, Zhang Lin touched his face with some suspicion.
Has your ability to tell stories declined?
Shirley Yang said: "Mr. Zhang, your story is not exciting at all!"
Hu Bayi suppressed his laughter and was tinkering with the fire. Wang Kaixuan raised his head and counted the thatch on the roof. The others were either eating or thinking about other things, but no one paid attention to him.
Perhaps because of the awkward atmosphere, Hao Aiguo said sarcastically: "Mr. Zhang, we are all archaeologists, and we are even weirder than you. We have heard horror stories..."
"Really?" Zhang Lin threw the bone at Hao Aiguo's feet and said, "Old sir, whether it is a wolf, a leopard, or even a mouse, as long as they touch this bone, they will leave tooth marks on it."
He said with an evil smile and said: "See for yourself and do some archeology. Come on! I'm going to sleep first!"
After listening to Zhang Lin's words, Hao Aiguo quickly picked up the bones on the ground and observed them carefully by the firelight.
"No, the legend he told is true, right?"
A group of people gathered together and saw that the white bones were as smooth as jade, and there were indeed no traces of animal teeth. Wang Kaixuan swallowed his saliva and asked Hu Bayi.
After all, they are not clean, they have met before.
Ye Yixin cried when she heard this: "Fat brother, don't scare me! I'm even more timid..."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Hu Bayi glared at Fatty Wang and said with a smile: "The world is so big and full of wonders. In fact, there are many things that we just don't understand, but we can all explain them. Just like the fire ladybug we met on the big glacier.
, although it is difficult to explain, but it does exist.
So there is no need for everyone to panic. There must be a reason why the bones are like this, so don’t scare yourself."
"Okay! Everyone, have a good rest. Fatty and I will keep watch. As soon as the sandstorm stops, we will set off."
"Who can sleep like this now!" Hao Aiguo, who continued to study the human bones, shook his head and continued to study.
"Mr. Hu..."
Seeing this, Shirley Yang signaled Hu Bayi to step aside.
At the corner of the aisle, Shirley Yang said: "Mr. Hu, at first I thought that you were too young to be the captain of the archaeological team, and I was afraid that you would not have enough experience and ability to lead us. Now it seems that you are very suitable.
"
Hu Bayi didn't take it seriously when he heard this. Shirley Yang glanced at the members of the archaeological team and said, "But there is something else that needs your help."
Hu Badi said: "What's the matter? Shopkeeper, tell me!"
Shirley Yang sighed and said: "Now that everyone is trapped here, the mood is a little low, and Zhang Lin used those bones to tell that story, so I hope you can say something to inspire everyone."
Hu Bayi smiled and said: "You mean, let me cheer them up?"
Shirley Yang didn't speak. Hu Bayi shook his head and said, "This is a bit difficult!"
But no matter how difficult it was, as soon as the two came back, Hu Bayi did as Shirley Yang said.
Although it was quiet at first, after Hu Bayi boasted about his past deeds, the atmosphere became more intense.
It was late at night and everyone was tired.
As soon as Hu Ba saw that everyone was getting ready to go to bed, he called Fatty Wang and prepared to bury the human bones. However, when they were digging a hole, they dug out a stone statue. Everyone finally stopped under An Liman's stop
Dig and go to sleep.
Zhang Lin took a look at the stone statue, moved the sleeping place away, and ran to another corner.
Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang were sitting at the entrance to the house, talking about the ancient city.
Hu Bayi once said how dangerous it was to go there, and that Jingjue Ancient City did not exist at all. But Shirley Yang kept going, both inside and outside the words.
In order to convince Hu Bayi, a strange man with Tianxing Feng Shui skills, Shirley Yang talked about why she firmly believed in the existence of Jingjue Ancient City.
She said that she had been having the same dream for the past six months. In her dream, she went to a cave full of ancient cave inscriptions. There was a huge coffin on the broken wall of the cave.
She believed that it was the coffin of Queen Jingjue, and her recurring dream was entrusted to her by her father.
She told Hu Bayi that through her father's research on the information left by the Jingjue Kingdom, she was convinced that the royal city of the Jingjue Kingdom was on the way they were traveling - to the north of the Niya Oasis and downstream of the Ziduan River.
The two chatted all night. The next day, Zhang Lin was woken up by a loud noise.
Zhang Lin took a look and saw that it was Professor Chen and others who dug up the stone statues, while An Liman was stopping them from blaspheming the gods.
Hu Bayi deceived An Liman from the side, saying that they were just cleaning the sand off the stone statue so that he could better guard the gods.
An Liman looked at Hu Bayi with distrust. Seeing this, Zhang Lin quickly turned over and packed his things.
It's now time for those damn things to come out.
He couldn't tell everyone beforehand that there was a nest of marching ants under this house, so he had to use abnormal behavior to attract everyone's attention and trick them into running away.
Chapter completed!