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Looking carefully at the stone gate, he found that there was no such thing as a top door stone behind the stone gate, but it took at least two to three hundred catties of force to push the door aside.
Chen Hao hooked the gap in the stone door with his corpse claws, and dragged it to the side. It didn't take much effort to push the stone door aside, revealing a masonry passage.
Opening the door, Chen Hao hurriedly greeted the people above and asked them who would like to come down to have a look.
Sydney, Professor Chen, Hu Bayi, and Sa Dipeng decided to come down to have a look. They made a strong body and climbed the rope ladder to the edge of the stone gate.
Chen Hao stretched out his hand and pulled everyone into the corridor one by one. Everyone seemed very excited when they entered the corridor, and they took out pens and paper to inspect and record.
However, this is just a very ordinary corridor, and there are no murals on the walls, so it is not of much research value. It didn't take long for everyone to read it, and walked forward tens of meters, and came to another stone gate.
This stone gate was half open, and inside was a more spacious corridor. Everyone passed through the stone gate and walked straight forward, all the way to the third stone gate.
This stone door is well sealed, with the fur of wild animals on it, the gap is so small that even an engineer shovel can't get in.
Seeing this, Professor Chen had no choice but to ask everyone to shovel off the animal skin on the stone door, and pry the door open little by little.
In order to avoid air poisoning, Chen Hao asked everyone to wear gas masks before pushing the stone door open.
After the stone door was pushed open, a stone room with a length and width of about 60 meters and a height of three to four meters appeared inside. It looked very spacious for people standing in it.
There are many bones on the ground of the stone room. After careful identification, it is found that these bones are all animals, not humans. They are all over the place, and there is no place to step down.
Maybe it's been too long, these bones have been weathered and crispy, and they turned into a pile of powder when stepped on.
Looking inside, I saw rows of crosses erected there, on which were tied human skeletons that had already dried up. Judging from their physical features, they seemed to be all men in their prime.
Sa Dipeng had never seen such a scene, and he was so frightened that he couldn't even speak, while the others seemed calm.
Xueli pointed to the mummies and sighed: "It's so miserable. They should be slaves or prisoners who were buried. The feudal society is too barbaric."
Chapter 365 It's God's Will
Professor Chen said to everyone: "It seems that this is a place where important dead people are sacrificed, and the status of the people buried here is extraordinary. This is the burial custom of Gumo in ancient times. These people should be prisoners. They were bound to die of thirst in the desert, and after the air was dry, they were dragged into this tomb and drenched with the blood of those animals."
With Professor Chen and the archaeological team around, even if there are things, they can't touch them casually, and Chen Hao didn't have the heart to study them, so he stood at the entrance and smoked, planning to go up.
Everyone searched around the tomb, but they didn't find the inner and outer coffins, nor did they find any other dark rooms, so they were all at a loss.
Sydney was very thoughtful, and she found something unusual about one of the floors, so she called everyone over and cleaned it up. It turned out that it was a square stone slab with two pull rings on both sides.
Everyone worked together to pull the big stone slab aside, revealing a tomb chamber that was about the same size as the one above.
There was a rusty iron ladder under the tomb. After trying it out, everyone felt that it was still stable, so they went down the iron ladder to the tomb, where the owner of the tomb placed the coffin.
The tomb chamber on the lower floor was obviously much better than the one on the upper floor, surrounded by exquisite murals, and the coffin was about the size of a container, which made the archaeological team dance with excitement.
The murals describe the past events of the Gumo Kingdom and the Jingjue Kingdom. The team members patiently interpreted the things depicted above.
It turned out that the Gumo Kingdom was a vassal state of the Jingjue Kingdom. It had been oppressed all the time, but it was powerless to resist. Later, after the death of the Queen Jingjue, all the oppressed countries united to destroy the extremely powerful Jingjue Kingdom in one fell swoop.
According to the records on the mural, Queen Jingjue is the most beautiful woman in the entire Western Regions. She has always covered her face with a green veil, and no one has ever seen what she looks like.
The Queen Jingjue used cruel and bloody means to suppress the neighboring countries around her, and wanted the surrounding countries to worship her as a true god, but anyone who dared to resist her would be skinned alive and executed.
Maybe it was her actions that offended the gods, and in the end, after a few years of tossing, the incomparable queen died strangely and suddenly, and no one knew the cause of her death.
It mentioned above that the Queen Jingjue has a certain kind of strange ability, as long as anyone who is seen by her eyes will disappear inexplicably.
And the person who was buried in this tomb was Prince Gumo. After the queen died, he also reached his limit and was buried in this tomb together with his beloved woman.
The people had been researching for several hours. In the end, Professor Chen refused to open the coffin for inspection. He was afraid that the air would enter the coffin and the tomb owner's body and funeral objects would not be preserved, so he asked everyone to seal the stone door and return to the ground.
Everyone has been resting in the ancient city of Xiye for three days and three nights before heading to the ancient city of Jingjue in the depths of the Black Desert.
This is already the deepest part of the entire desert, and you can no longer see Populus euphratica, Haloxylon grass, etc., and the surrounding sand dunes have become very similar. It is very easy to get lost.
Even An Liman entered this place for the first time in his life. He said that if he was not blessed by the white camel spirit and killed him, he would not have come to this desert hell.
An Liman is worthy of being a living map of the desert. His familiarity with the desert is like a woman handling pots and pans. He would stop from time to time to check the position of the sun, and then determine the direction of travel.
Under his leadership, the people drove for another day in the black desert. After dark, they found a shady dune and set up camp to rest.
An Liman taught everyone a way to reduce the heat, that is, dig a bunker under the sand, put a tent on the bunker, and sleep in it, which is much cooler than lying directly on the sand.
This method is indeed effective, but the temperature in the desert is too high, even if it is lowered a little, it still makes people feel unbearably hot.
Sister Ye Yixin's physique was the worst. She suffered from heatstroke in such a hot environment, and she was dizzy all over.
Seeing this, Chen Hao had no choice but to let the fat man carry her on his back.
The fat man was also happy, because Ye Yixin's body has been weak for the past few days, so thin that only skin and bones are left, weighing less than 90 kilograms, and it doesn't feel much burden on his back.
Another thing is that walking in such a place with a beautiful girl on your back is not a bad thing.
Along the way, everyone rode camels, drove No. 11, and stopped and stopped. After 5 days, they finally came to the deepest part of the Black Desert.
At this time, they drank only the last bit of water on their bodies, and there was not much food left. The lack of water was the biggest problem they faced.
The crowd had no choice but to stop, discussing whether to continue to find the ancient city of Jingjue, maybe after finding the ancient city, there is a source of water in it that can be replenished in time.
But it would take a lot of risk to do so. Maybe after 7 years, the water source in the ancient city had already been exhausted. After they entered, they could not replenish the water source, and there was only a dead end.
A more conservative approach is to turn around and return to Xiye Ancient City now, replenish enough water sources, and then come back to find Jingjue Ancient City. All previous efforts will be in vain.
To make matters worse, Ye Yixin and Professor Chen couldn't bear it anymore after traveling long distances for the past few days, especially Ye Yixin, who had been in a coma for several days, had a constant high fever, and was already suffering from severe dehydration.
Chen Hao couldn't bear to let everyone suffer, so he had to use achievement points to exchange some mineral water from the system, found a place where no one was around, put it in a water bottle, and distributed it to everyone.
Because at this time only Hu Bayi was left, and there was still a little water in the kettle with Xueli, and everyone else had already drunk it.
His water jug can hold more than three catties of water, and it took three bottles of mineral water to fill it up. After distributing it to everyone, everyone can drink several sips. She was willing to take a sip and specially reserved it for them.
Everyone left some water and gave it to Ye Yixin to drink. After drinking the water and resting all morning, the girl woke up, but her body was still very weak.
After resting, everyone continued to discuss the two proposals proposed before. However, half of the people chose to return to West Night City, and half of the people chose to continue looking for the Jingjue Ancient City. It was difficult to make a decision for a while.
In the end, An Liman thought of a compromise. He took out a 5-cent coin and asked Professor Chen, the oldest here, to throw the coin into the air. The side with the flower continued to search for Jingjue Ancient City and landed Finally, if it is the side with words, immediately go back and let God decide.
Chapter 366 Squeeze the Black Snake
The professor tossed the coin into the air. Strangely, the coin happened to stand on the sand and did not land.
This is an incredible thing. According to normal logic, even if it is thrown tens of thousands of times, there may not be such a result once.
Just as everyone was hesitating whether to toss the coin again, Chen Hao pointed to the direction the coin was facing, and shouted: "There is no need to discuss, look! What is that?"
Hearing the words, everyone quickly looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a mountain range in the shape of a black dragon standing on the horizon of the desert in the distance, standing in the endless sand sea, with only a ridge exposed, which is hard to detect unless you look carefully. .