Chapter 625 The Mystery of the Ancient Loulan Kingdom (Part 2)
Chapter 625: The Unparalleled Mystery of the Ancient Loulan Country (Part 2)
After leaving Ruoqiang Town, where Loulan is located, He Qing and the others drove straight to the direction of the Loulan ancient city ruins.
Because it was their first time here, He Qing and Lin Haitao both felt a sense of freshness and were full of expectations for exploring this remote and mysterious place.
"How long will it take to get to the ruins of Loulan Ancient City?" He Qing asked Brother Xing.
Brother Xing replied: "We are familiar with this place. We can take the shortest road, so we can reach the outskirts of Loulan Ancient City ruins in the evening. Brother, do you want to enter Loulan Ancient City?"
He Qing said without hesitation: "Of course, since we finally got here, how can we not go and take a good look?"
He had heard the legend of the ancient Loulan country a long time ago. At that time, he was very yearning for it and wanted to see its true appearance. This time he came here specially to hunt for treasures, so naturally he wanted to investigate it carefully.
Although the ancient city of Loulan has begun to reveal its original shape, archaeological work has gone deep into it and many valuable cultural relics have been unearthed, including the "Loulan Beauty" that has survived for thousands of years, but there are still many mysteries that are difficult to solve.
He Qing vaguely felt that those mysteries were waiting for him to dig out and reveal them.
In any case, he has an advantage over any archaeologist because he can directly see the "treasure light" emitted by the cultural relics, so he can easily find the treasure based on the aura.
Brother Xing replied: "But now it is not easy to enter the Loulan ancient city ruins and inspect the ruins. If you just go sightseeing, you have to pay at least 3,500 yuan in cultural relics protection fees. This price per person. Price
It’s not a problem, we can afford it. But there are too many restrictions. If we transport so many treasures in, we will definitely be targeted, and it will be bad if people become suspicious.”
He Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "Then leave someone to guard the baby. I'll just take him in and take a look."
"Then re-exploring the treasure..." Uncle Pang interjected.
He Qing said: "There is no rush. The treasure cemetery is on the other side of Loulan Ancient City. You have to pass through the ancient city to get there. It seems that the convoy cannot go directly through it. It has to take a detour. Ah Xing, is there a rest stop or village ahead?
What?"
Brother Xing replied: "There is no grass growing in this desert. There is no water source. People and animals can't live at all, so there are no villages, but there are small villages. They are just for tourists to rest, just like hotels. You can eat
It’s good and useful, but it’s all expensive!”
"It's nothing if it's expensive. It'll be nice to have a place to rest." He Qing said happily, "Then find a village closest to the ancient city ruins to rest later. Most of you will stay here later, and I'll take someone to the ruins to check out the situation."
"Okay." Brother Xing happily agreed.
Now they hurried on and drove straight towards the ancient city of Loulan.
I don’t know how long it took, but I saw a person suddenly appear in front of me.
Like a tourist on foot.
The tourist stood there and kept waving to them, gesturing for them to stop.
"Brother, there is a person in front of you. He seems to be in trouble. Do you want to stop and take a look?" Brother Xing, who was driving at the front, asked He Qing for instructions.
Uncle Pang was the first to say: "It's better to keep going. People who appear in such a place cannot be trusted. They may be a group of robbers. As soon as we parked the car, the other robbers who were ambushing us rushed out."
He Qing did not reply immediately, but looked at the traveler intently.
He was a thin, middle-aged man. He was wearing a pair of glasses and looked polite. He obviously didn't look like a robber.
He Qing's eyesight is so sharp, he can tell at a glance whether there is something wrong with that person.
"Stop the car. He is probably lost. It doesn't hurt to give him a ride." He Qing ordered.
As the saying goes, "Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda." Since you encounter a lost traveler in the desert, you naturally have to lend a helping hand, otherwise the other person may fall into despair.
He Qing still couldn't do anything without saving his life.
"Yeah." Following He Qing's instructions, Brother Xing immediately stopped the car.
He Qing and the others also parked the car aside.
After stopping the car, He Qing opened the car door and walked out.
Brother Xing and the others looked at the man with wary faces.
"Young man, you stopped the car, that's great!" The man hurriedly came over and greeted with a smile, "I'm lost and I've almost finished the water I brought with me. Do you have any extra water in the car?
, can you share some with me? Thank you very much!"
He Qing looked back at Lin Haitao without hesitation and said, "Give him a bottle of water."
This time they entered the desert, but they were well prepared. They had plenty of water and food in reserve, so they could eat and drink for more than half a month.
So what does it matter if you give that man a pot of water?
Soon, Lin Haitao took a large pot of water from the car and handed it to the man as He Qing said.
"Thank you, thank you so much!" After receiving the water, the man nodded in thanks.
He Qing shook his head and said: "You're welcome. This vast desert is desolate and uninhabited. It can be said that it is an uninhabited land. You are lucky to meet us. Otherwise, you will not have water for ten and a half months."
The man smiled bitterly and said: "Not to mention ten days and a half, even three days, I can't bear it. This pot of water is life-saving water! Thank you very much!"
After saying that, he raised his head and took a few gulps.
After drinking the water, his chapped and white lips became moisturized, and his whole person seemed to be energized.
After he finished drinking, He Qing asked: "Uncle, where are you going? If necessary, I can give you a ride."
The man replied: "I have been lost here for three days and three nights. I have been lost since I came out of the ruins of Loulan Ancient City. Now I want to go out and find my team members."
"You came from the ruins of Loulan Ancient City? Then which direction are you going?" He Qing smiled bitterly, "We are rushing to the direction of Loulan. It seems that we are going in the opposite direction to you, but you are lost, I can
Send you back to a rest stop near Loulan. Then you contact your team members via satellite phone and ask them to pick you up."
"Then why are you driving in this direction?" The man asked in surprise, "The ruins of Loulan Ancient City should be in the direction you are driving from."
"What?!" As soon as these words came out, He Qing, Lin Haitao and the others looked at each other with surprise on their faces.
He Qing smiled and said: "Uncle, you are mistaken. Loulan Ancient City is clearly in front. How come it is behind us? Otherwise, why would we go there? We have a compass, so there will be no mistakes. Maybe you are lost. You have a sense of direction.
Something went wrong."
"How is it possible?" The man shook his head solemnly and said, "No, I also brought a compass. I am from the geological survey team. With decades of experience in geological survey, how can I not even be able to tell the direction? I am directly
I walked out of Loulan Ancient City, but this place is too wide and I don’t know where the nearest way out is.”
"Are you from the geological survey team? May I ask your surname?" He Qing asked casually, and he was even more surprised. Now this man insisted that the ancient city of Loulan was in the opposite direction from them. Could it be that Brother Xing and the others made a mistake?
Have they already walked through the ruins of Loulan Ancient City?
The man replied clearly: "My name is Dong Ziqing, from the Henan Geological Team. A month ago, six people from my team and I went out to explore the ancient city of Loulan. But we were about to arrive in Loulan.
, the weather changed suddenly and a strong sandstorm dispersed us. From then on, I could no longer contact them or find them. But I still walked to the ancient city of Loulan alone. There was no one there, human or animal.
Nothing! So even if you send me there, it’s useless. I can’t contact anyone.”
He Qing smiled and said: "You said there is no one at the ruins of Loulan Ancient City? How is that possible? There is now a protection station there, and there may be tourists visiting there every day. The number of people is small, but there must be some. Besides, there are now
There are satellite phones, some places around, and base stations, and mobile phones may receive signals. So it’s not difficult to contact people outside.”
He felt that the man in front of him who claimed to be a geological survey team was a little confused, but he seemed to be in good spirits and did not seem to be lying. Besides, there was no need for him to lie.
Dong Ziqing looked He Qing up and down, and inquired about Lin Haitao and others standing next to him, as well as the parked vehicle, and asked in surprise: "Satellite phone? Cell phone? What is it?"
"It's just a mobile phone, a wireless mobile phone, don't you know?"
This surprise was quite surprising to He Qingke. Dong Ziqing, a veteran expert on the geology team, didn't even know about mobile phones?
Not to mention an elder like him in his 50s or 60s, even primary school students are playing with their mobile phones. Mobile phones are so common in this era!
As he said this, He Qing subconsciously took out his mobile phone from his pocket and showed it to the other party.
Dong Ziqing's eyes widened when he saw the mobile phone.
"The date displayed on your phone is July 9, 2014..." He took a few steps closer and looked at the information on the phone screen carefully.
He Qing nodded and said, "Yes, that's right."
"How is it possible?! Absolutely impossible! You lied to me!" Dong Ziqing's face changed drastically, his eyes were full of doubts, and he began to mutter to himself, as if he couldn't believe it.
"Uncle, we have to go on a journey. If you can't get in the car, do you want us to give you a lift? Otherwise, we have to leave." He Qing asked.
At this moment, he had determined that Dong Ziqing was a little mentally disturbed and there was no need to dwell on this matter any longer.
If the ruins of the Loulan Ancient Kingdom were really in the direction they drove from, how could they not find anything at all.
"I'm going to go and take a pee." Dong Ziqing shivered, probably because he had just drank a lot of water and was shocked again, so he felt the urge to urinate immediately and needed to relieve himself.
When he saw Ling'er standing behind He Qing, he turned around and walked away, walking far to the side to relieve himself.
When he walked to relieve himself, suddenly, a gust of wind blew in the direction where He Qing and the others were driving.
The wind was so strong that the blown sand and dust blew into He Qing's and others' faces.
They covered it with their arms.
"Is the weather going to change? But that's not what the weather forecast said." He Qing muttered.
Strangely, the wind stopped quickly.
He Qing felt strange.
Suddenly, Lin Haitao exclaimed: "That man is gone!"