Seeing that the once luxurious ancient desert city three thousand years ago was now withered and only the shadows of building mounds remained, the four of them felt inexplicably that time was indeed the most capable culprit of destroying everything.
The four of them came to the highest area of Loulan Ancient City ruins, which was a former royal palace. From the traces of the tall building on the outside, we can see the grandeur of this building at that time.
"Tonight, we will spend the night here! Tomorrow we will officially march to the center of the desert. The desert nights will be colder! The quilts carried on the camels can be taken out for temporary use." Xiao Yuan led one of them.
A camel, tied to a raised mound!
Li Ling also tied up his camel and fed him a few mouthfuls of water, but then he remembered that Xiao Yuan once said to give the camel as little water as possible, so he took out the cowhide bag containing water.
"Why did such a large ancient city of Loulan suddenly disappear?" Li Ling stared at this ancient royal palace, silently lost in thought.
"According to historical records, the ancient city of Loulan was once built on water, and the water here was the famous Lop Nur Lake. However, for unknown reasons, Lop Nur Lake dried up in an instant, causing the soldiers and people in the ancient city of Loulan to be abandoned due to extreme water shortages.
This glorious ancient city of Loulan has since been submerged in the long river of history by wind and sand." Xiao Yuan also looked at the ruins of the royal palace, took out a water bag in his hand, and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth.
"That's it." Li Ling smiled slightly and nodded his chin secretly. It can be understood that human beings have lost the water source, one of the sources of survival, and have to abandon the ancient city built with hard work and move to find another place with sufficient water sources.
carry out the continuation of life.
"Mandala, you sleep with Jingjing at night and protect Jingjing at all times. Uncle Xiao Yuan and I are guarding you outside this hall. If those guys don't know what to do and play sneak attacks at night, I will be very happy.
I'm happy to accompany you." Li Ling took a water bag from the camel's body and went straight to a mound to sit on it.
Mandala's pretty face was slightly red, and she came to Li Ling's side. She lowered her eyes and looked at her toes, and said: "Jun Zhi, it's enough for me to guard you outside. You and Mr. Xiao Yuan go in together to accompany Miss Jingjing and rest together!"
"Stop talking nonsense, this is an order given to you. Do you want to disobey the order?" Li Ling knew that Mandala would come running over and ask like this.
Mandala nodded slightly and whispered: "I don't dare."
"Then stay with Jingjing and protect her safety. Those people must not have ordinary skills. Foreign agents are humanoid weapons and intelligence collectors created through extremely difficult training. They are always smart and good at fighting."
Li Ling did not underestimate the agents who followed him during the day.
"But, Jun Zhi!" Mandala wanted to say something more, but when he saw Li Ling's slightly angry eyes, he swallowed his words immediately.
"Yes, Junzhi." Mandala's indifferent expression had a hint of strangeness, perhaps because of gratitude!
"The sun is going down. It's a dark and windy night." Li Ling looked at the sun that was about to set and pinched his fingers. He felt like his hands were itchy after not using force for a long time.
Xiao Yuan sat over, glanced at Li Ling, and said, "Why does that woman keep calling you Junzhi? Are you also an officer?"
"Yes, but I am only temporary." Li Ling held his chin and said with a slight smile.
"I can be considered an officer temporarily, and as an archaeologist, I am only an amateur." Xiao Yuan laughed.
The two of them were chatting about speculation, looked at each other, smiled slightly, each took out the water bag from his waist, pulled out the piston of the water bag, touched it, raised his head and drank happily.
"Happy!" Xiao Yuan raised his head and laughed loudly.
"Me too." Li Ling closed the lid of the water bag and smiled.
However, Li Ling instantly darkened his face and became alert.
"Some troublesome people may come in a while, which will have a certain impact on us. Uncle Xiao Yuan, how are your fighting skills?" Li Ling looked at the middle-aged uncle with provocative eyes.
Xiao Yuan recalled the few people who were following him during the day, with a trace of doubt in his eyes. He was slightly startled, pointed at Li Ling with his finger, shook his head repeatedly and said: "I am a wild survivalist and an adventurer. Of course I am pretty good.
, if you don’t believe it, just make gestures.”
Xiao Yuan put down his water bag and made a fist-sparing gesture towards Li Ling.
"No need, I have plenty of time to practice boxing, but the few people who came here are not only good at fighting, but also masters of killing. Their expertise is collecting intelligence and killing people!" Li Ling approached Xiao Yuan and put his right hand around Xiao Yuan's shoulder.
, patted Xiao Yuan's shoulder and said.
There was a trace of surprise in Xiao Yuan's eyes, and he said slightly moved: "Then their killing skills are as powerful as those of African lions and Siberian tigers."
"This...how do you want me to compare?" There was a hint of helplessness in Li Ling's eyes, but there was something behind that Li Ling didn't say out loud, because the killing skills of those agents might be more awesome than ten African lions!
"I think back then, I went to Africa alone to survive in the wild, but I fought with African lions with my bare hands. However, I escaped in despair in the end." Xiao Yuan talked about the great deeds of that year. Of course, as an ordinary person, he could
The escape from the mouth of an African lion is quite remarkable.
Li Ling laughed, picked up the water bag, and said, "Here, let's do... dry the bag!"
"Dry bag!" Xiao Yuan laughed, picked up the water bag from his side, and stayed with Li Lingqian. The two of them had quite compatible personalities.
The night gradually fell silent, and the ancient city of Loulan looked doubly desolate and desolate under the starry night sky. There used to be a large group of people here, chatting in the wind.
Late at night, there will be a slight breeze blowing here at night, but the coolness is even more obvious.
Xiao Yuan also gradually became sleepy, so he folded a quilt and gradually fell asleep without warning! Perhaps it was because he was too tired during the day, so Xiao Yuan could not bear the sleepiness at night and fell asleep.
"Like uncle, hey, I'll probably die several times." Li Ling sighed slightly and looked around carefully, but didn't find any movement! Those agents obviously wanted to wait for Li Ling and the four of them to fall asleep before taking action.
Kill people and steal tranquility.
But they missed one person, the genius killer Li Ling!
Li Ling looked at the royal palace carefully. It was surrounded by walls and there was only one entrance. Unless a hole could be drilled through the royal palace, it was not impossible. Even so, it was protected by the alien species Mandala. Come to think of it.
Those agents are no match for Mandala.
Li Ling came down from the mound, sat cross-legged on a flat ground, put his hands flat on his knees, half-closed his eyes, slowly breathed evenly, exhaled slowly, and entered a state of calmness.
His spiritual sense instantly rose to a very high level, and the movement around him was completely covered by Li Ling's sensitive spiritual sense.
Three hundred meters outside the ancient city of Loulan, there were four men in black. With the help of the moonlight and starlight at night, they gradually approached the palace from different directions. They moved fast and slow, and they were very careful.
The movement speed is also very rhythmic. Even so, their movements cannot escape the detection of Li Ling's calm mind.
Just as the other four people quickly approached the palace, Li Ling suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes focused, and a pile of sand was rolled out from the ground.
"Come out! There's no need to hide." Li Ling looked at the mound, and a man in black gradually walked out from behind the mound. This was one of the agents!
