Sand Sea Devil's Nest 13 (Stone Tomb)

Half of Ye Yixin's body was trapped in the sand. She kept struggling. Shirley Yang grabbed her arm and dragged her out desperately.

I don’t know who shouted: “Fast sand!”

We rushed forward along the footprints on the ground, and grabbed Ye Yixin at all costs to save her. A few people didn't have time to find a rope, so they untied their belts and wanted to cover her arm.

Unexpectedly, without using much effort, he dragged Ye Yixin out of the sand. Seeing that it was not quicksand, Ye Yixin was frightened and threw herself into Shirley Yang's arms and cried.

Everyone asked them what was going on? Is it quicksand?

Shirley Yang comforted Ye Yixin and said to everyone: "As soon as we walked behind the sand dune, Ye Yixin stepped on the air, and half of his whole body was sinking. I quickly grabbed her and then blew the whistle to ask for help. However, it seemed that it was not quicksand. The quicksand shunt people quickly and suctioned. If it was quicksand, I could not hold her back with my strength. And after she fell halfway, she stopped, as if the bottom was solid. Otherwise, you would come and delay the news and delay for more than ten seconds in the middle. It would be too late to save people from quicksand."

Ye Yixin also came to her senses and wiped her tears and said, "I seemed to step on a stone slab under the sand. There was a section under the stone slab that was empty and collapsed as soon as I stepped on it.

Shirley Yang Qi said: "Are they those stone tombs? Let's go and have a look."

We dug a few times with a shovel that had just caught Ye Yixin. Under the not-so-thick layer of yellow sand, it was parallel to the slope of the sand dune, and an inclined stone wall was exposed. A large hole was blown out with medicine on the stone wall.

It seems that the explosion has not been long, and in recent days, wind and sand have covered the hole in the hole thinly, and Ye Yixin stepped on the gravel beside the hole and stuck in it.

Everyone looked at the stone cave, look at me, look at you, look at each other, this is clearly a stone tomb, has it been stolen?

I carefully checked the gravel at the entrance of the cave, the direction of the explosion impact, and the precise small directional blasting. I have been an engineer for so many years. I think my familiarity with the medicine is similar to the Maoxuan. I want me to explode this ancient stone tomb, and I am at this level.

This is a complete understanding of the resistance of the rock mass. The explosion only collapses the stone walls and spreads outwards, without damaging the interior of the stone tomb.

Looking at the power of the medicine, it is definitely not a civilian medicine. After leaving the army for several years, has it been fighting even the active People's Liberation Army? It is definitely not, maybe it was a stolen medicine. And in this vast desert, how did the people who fought back find these ancient tombs? The terrain and landforms are exactly the same nearby. Is there really any other fighting master in this world who can watch the celestial wind technique except me?

The area of ​​cleaning the sand dunes is getting bigger and bigger. This is a hammer-shaped stone wall. Except for the blasted side, the rest of the parts are buried deep under the yellow sand.

This is a typical stone tomb from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The huge and thick rocks are arched and the gaps are glued with marinade. Such stone tombs are very common near the Xiye ruins. In the early 19th century, an European explorer once described it as follows: "The stone tombs everywhere in the desert are large and small, countless, and most of them are buried under the yellow sand, revealing the black spire outside, like a reduced version of the Egyptian golden tower, walking through the desert with stone tombs. The scene is amazing."

Now that these stone tombs have been completely covered by the desert, it is difficult to find their traces. Professor Chen probably may be related to the huge sandstorm a few days ago. The strong wind exposed part of the stone tomb. Unexpectedly, the tomb robbers came so fast that the archaeological team was still one step late.

The biggest looting of the ancient tombs and remains in Xinjiang in history was before World War II. In the early 19th century, Loulan in the eastern part of Takramagan and Niya on the southern edge, almost all the cultural relics in those places were stolen. Now the tomb robbers have stretched their claws to the Black Desert area in the southwest. The natural conditions here are harsh and rarely visited, but they are the paradise for tomb robbers.

Along the way, we have seen several ancient tombs that have been stolen and damaged. No wonder Professor Chen is so anxious and wants to go into the desert even though he has fought his life. If he does not stop the tomb robbery in this area, he may not be left in the near future.

The hole in the tomb was dark. Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo and others went in to check it out with flashlights. The tomb chamber was the size of a small bungalow, with four or five wooden coffins scattered inside. The coffin boards were pried and broken and thrown aside, and they were all over the place.

Looking at the coffins, they were big and small, and seemed to be a joint tomb. The ancient corpse in the coffin was only a young woman's mummy, with long hair and braids, only her head was well preserved, and her body was broken. The rest of the photos were all moved away by tomb robbers.

The ancient tombs in the Xinjiang desert, the value of the treasure is the mummy in the tomb. I heard from Professor Chen that ancient corpses are divided into wet corpses with moisture, such as the Mawangdui female corpses and wax corpses. They are specially treated corpses. The frozen corpses exist in glacier areas where snow has not melted for thousands of years. Tanned corpses are similar to zombies, and the rest are corpses like specimens, corpses, etc.

There are also several types of mummies, including desiccants such as lime or charcoal, which are formed by mummies formed by artificially manufactured using special anticorrosion treatment technology in ancient Egypt.

The mummies in Xinjiang are formed naturally in a special environment of high temperature, dryness and sterility. These mummies are a little old and are quite valuable. Some overseas museums, exhibition halls and collectors are rushing to buy them at high prices.

Seeing that the rest of the mummies in the stone tomb were stolen and were destroyed in a mess, Professor Chen couldn't help but sigh, so he had to ask a few students to sort out the broken items in the tomb to see if he could rescue anything else.

I was worried that the professor would be too excited and could not bear it, so I advised him to rest early. Professor Chen asked Hao Aiguo to take someone to record the situation of the stone tomb in detail, and the fat man sent him back to the camp to rest.

The next day, the wind did not stop, and it was slapped slowly. When the archaeological team set off, Professor Chen found me. He said that the stone tomb I saw last night was stolen for no more than three or five days. Maybe a team of tomb robbers had entered the depths of the black desert before us. We can't delay it, it's best to catch up and catch them."

I just responded to a few words, thinking, but don't meet them. My colleagues are enemies, let alone the guys who stole this stone tomb, who have military medicine, and maybe some sharp equipment. If they encounter them, they will inevitably have to fight. I don't care. The problem is that if these intellectuals in the archaeological team suffer from death and injury, the responsibility will be too great.

But here we are saying that, it is not easy for the two teams to meet each other in the vast desert. If we hadn't seen this dune yesterday, we wouldn't have camped there, and we wouldn't have accidentally encountered the stolen stone tomb. How could there be such a coincidence for the second time? Maybe those guys would have gone back after stealing the mummy.

In the next ten days, the archaeological team went deeper and deeper in the black desert, and finally lost the trace of the Zidu Dark River. They kept circles in the same place for several consecutive days. Zidu means "shadow" in ancient Wei. This underground river is like a shadow and cannot be captured. Old Man An Liman's eyes turned red. When he shook his hand, he had no choice. It seems that Hu Da only allowed us to walk here.

Everyone was trapped and no one could walk. There was no wind in the desert these days. The sun had been hanging in the sky for a very long time. In order to save drinking water, the team members dug a hole in the sand during the day, laying a rainproof canvas on it, sucking the cool air on the ground to maintain the moisture in their bodies. They only walked at night and in the morning, riding camels halfway, and driving No. 11 halfway.

Going further, there is no enough food or water. If you don’t go back within a day or two, you have to slaughter the camel to eat when you walk back.

I looked at these people who were extremely tired and had their lips ruptured, and knew that they were almost at their limit. Seeing the sun rising and the temperature was getting higher and higher, I asked everyone to dig a hole to rest.

After settling down, Shirley Yang found An Liman and me and discussed the route.
Chapter completed!