Chapter 108 Chapter 20 The Frozen Death Posture

After going up another six floors, each floor was empty, and no more mummies appeared.Due to the tilt of the tower, I always feel that the soles of my feet are slipping and I will turn somersaults at any time.Every floor in the pagoda hall is very dark, either the lighting design is poor, or the Guishuang Empire deliberately did it.There are not many things left in the tower hall, but the huge inner hall can already see the prosperity at that time.It has to be said that it is a miracle that a remnant force can develop to this scale, and in such a harsh environment. Coming down from the top of the tower, Zhao Shuai was still awake, and the others were too tired to stand up.Now we only have three jugs of water left. We must find water today, or we will die of thirst.Except for me, Mu Qingxiang and Uncle Chen, everyone else's physical condition was getting worse and worse, so the task of finding water naturally fell on the shoulders of the three of us.Uncle Chen left them two shotguns, and I also asked my little cousin to take out the whistle she had prepared, and told them to blow the whistle vigorously if they had something to do.

"Cousin..." This is the first time my little cousin called me that. I turned around in surprise, and retracted the foot that stepped out of the tower hall: "What's the matter, if you are thirsty, just drink water, we will find the water." The little cousin smiled strangely and feebly: "Be careful." I nodded hesitantly, the little cousin's smile was lingering in my mind, and I always felt that I would never see her again after leaving.Uncle Chen urged me very hard, and before I had time to look at my cousin again, I left the stone pagoda in panic.The houses and buildings in the ancient city are in ruins, and the dilapidated buildings are connected by streets covered in yellow sand.We stood in it, the wind whizzed and the dust rolled up, and it seemed that someone else would be walking on the street in the next second.

I suggested that the three of us should act separately, so that we could find the water source quickly, but Uncle Chen thought it was not safe, and it would be difficult to deal with wolves in case they encountered a pack of wolves.After walking two streets, we immediately saw a spring, but unfortunately the spring has dried up.The diameter of this spring is five or six meters. I think there must have been a lot of water that flowed out back then, keeping the ancient city moist.Although the spring was buried by yellow sand, it is still four or five meters above the ground, which shows how deep the spring was back then.There are traces of man-made construction around. It may be that the ancient city was built on the underground river. The ancients dug nine wells for water intake in the city, and called them springs.

Now that it was all done, we had to change our target and walked another hundred meters to the other side of the street, and another spring appeared in front of us.But God deliberately made it difficult for us, the spring is still dry, not a drop of water can be seen.On the way, we saw a lot of gold wares in the earthen bunker, but we were not interested in taking a second look.Walking along the main avenue of the ancient city for a long time, we left our disappointing footprints on the sand, and those footprints became blurred when the wind blew.I turned around every three steps, and always felt that someone was peeping from behind.Sometimes, people will appear suspicious in a lonely environment. I have to comfort myself that there are no other people in the ancient city, so don't be too sensitive.

The main avenues are covered with yellow sand, and each road is undulating. If there is no solid sand-retaining wall, the entire ancient city would have been submerged long ago.As the golden day moved westward and the heat wave receded, we anxiously searched for springs. We found six springs along the main road, but they were all dried up long ago.In fact, Uncle Chen didn't help, only Mu Qingxiang and I were looking for water, and the old man looked around, wishing to find a wolf to torture and kill. "This is good. I searched and searched and found no water. Could it be that the other three springs have also dried up?" I said dejectedly.

"Ah? No way?" Uncle Chen finally felt that the situation was serious. Mu Qingxiang was not in a hurry, but said calmly: "Since the wolves can multiply to this day, there will be water sources nearby, let's keep looking." The remaining three springs are not next to the main road, so we went to other places in the ancient city and pinned our hopes on the remaining springs.Uncle Chen always wanted to kill a few more wolves, but we searched for a long time, but we didn't see any wolves, as if they weren't in the ancient city.But we saw the wolves running in with our own eyes, so we wouldn't run away from another gap in the ancient city, so it would be unnecessary.

When passing by a big house made of earth, stone, brick and wood, Uncle Chen wanted to go in and have a look. He said that the spring does not have to be in the open air, and the ancients may have built a house in the spring to prevent sand from blowing into the spring.Although I knew it was impossible, I agreed to go in and hide from the sun by the way.It was almost evening now, but the heat under my feet was still so hot that I wanted to jump up. I still remember that there is a saying in the Sutra: "Building a house to cover the spring will not only kill the scenery, but also prevent the yang energy from entering, which can cause yin damage, so beware of it. If it is small, make a bamboo cover and cage it to prevent it. Its uncleanness invades more houses than houses." This sentence means that building houses on spring water will not only spoil the scenery, but also block the sunlight outside, and the cloudy air will erode the spring water, so it is best not to do that.If the spring is not big, cover it with bamboo to prevent unclean things from falling in, which is much better than building a house.

The ancient city seems to put tea first, and it would definitely not be so reckless. The spring must have been covered with something like a bamboo cage.However, I am still puzzled, since the ancient city regards the tea ancestors as immortals, why is it so disrespectful to name the stone pagoda Zhenxian Pagoda?The Guishuang Empire was very strong back then, and after learning the cultures of other great Han, Guixi, and Rome, it was natural that they would not make mistakes in Chinese expressions. The three of us walked in at the same time. The roof of the earthen house was not broken, so it was cooler inside.But as soon as we walked in, we saw four people knelt together facing each other in a circle.I was calmer than before, and took a look calmly. Those four people had already turned into mummies, and they had been dead for many years.But this kind of death posture is the first time I have encountered it. I have seen dead people lying on the ground or soaking in water. No one is kneeling.

Uncle Chen walked in cautiously, looked at the four kneeling dead men and asked, "Why are they kneeling? Did they make a mistake?" "Who would still be kneeling after death?" I approached suspiciously, carefully observing the four purple-yellow mummies. Soon, I came to the conclusion that these four mummies were very close to the time we lived in.You know, the ancient city has been destroyed for nearly two thousand years, and many places have been buried by yellow sand. The sand in the city hardly flows, and the ancients at that time must have been under the yellow sand.What's more, the clothes worn by the four mummies are all in modern style, and they are expedition clothes that were only available a few years ago.I thought to myself, sure enough, after my father left, and before we arrived, the ancient city welcomed another group of visitors.

Mu Qingxiang also noticed it, and walked around to the opposite side of me, squatting down to observe the mummy.I also squatted down in the same way, and looked back and forth at the mummies. There were no obvious wounds on their bodies, and there were no gunshot wounds on their heads.At first I thought the same as Uncle Chen, they were all executed by shooting, but the actual situation is not like that. No one in the world died of thirst and hunger, and kept kneeling. Almost everyone was lying down or leaning against the wall.Even if they were shot, they would fall to the ground due to the impact of the bullets, and very few of them could maintain their kneeling posture.I rested my chin and pondered, could it be that the lives of these four people were bad, and they knelt and prayed to the sky, but when they knelt down, they lost their braids?

At this time, Mu Qingxiang moved closer to the mummy again, then stood up and said to us: "Their eyes are very strange, exactly the same as the mummy I saw in the stone tower just now." "No way?" Uncle Chen was slightly surprised, but he didn't seem to care much. But I find it inconceivable that people of different ages died at different times, and why their injuries are the same.Sure enough, I knelt down and took a look, their eyes were blurred, as if someone had sprayed them with a musket.After a person dies, he loses water quickly in the desert and turns into a mummy.In a dry environment, the skin of the corpse becomes wrinkled due to dehydration.But the mummy's eyes are not folded, but so blurred that the position of the eyes can hardly be found. "It seems that their wounds are in their eyes, but why don't they struggle or fall to the ground, but keep kneeling instead?" Uncle Chen asked suspiciously. I wanted to explain, but I couldn't. I opened and closed my mouth a few times.Mu Qingxiang didn't speak either, looking at her expressiony face, she didn't know what she was thinking.I gradually realized that the ancient city is not peaceful, and it is better to leave as soon as possible after finding the spring.I think back then, the Guishuang Empire settled here, had spring water, and no one invaded. It developed so strong, but why did it perish so quickly.Judging from all the signs in the ancient city, it doesn't look like they migrated because of the harsh environment. Maybe the desert was still an oasis back then, which is much better than it is now. I searched the mummies, but unfortunately there was nothing on them. They must have been taken away by their colleagues. Those people don't want their identities to be known.I asked Uncle Chen if any other foreigners had been here in the past few years besides the exploration team, but Uncle Chen couldn't remember clearly, so it was useless to ask.I couldn't help thinking of Jiang Hongyu's group of people. She left a big tea gossip needle on her body, and there might be an expert behind her who made the big tea gossip needle. I got a headache from thinking about it. Time is urgent now, and there is no trace of a spring in the house, so I urged: "Go find water first, don't look." "I hope we can find water before dark. The pack of wolves must be in ambush now, and they will attack us when it gets dark." Uncle Chen said to himself. Mu Qingxiang was speechless, and unexpectedly mentioned at this moment: "The last time I woke up in the ancient city was ten years ago, and these people may have arrived in the ancient city ten years ago." After hearing this, Uncle Chen asked, "Have you been here before?" I was worried that such entanglement would delay time, so I interrupted: "It's okay, it's okay, keep looking." But I felt more and more that something was wrong. Xiao Nongyun who took the picture of Mu Qingxiang sleeping was from the 1940s, and Mu Qingxiang must have not been born then.In fact, when Mu Qingxiang really woke up ten years ago, it was at the foot of Qingwu Mountain in Chongqing.She only woke up for a while in the ancient city, and then lost consciousness again.When Mu Qingxiang was asleep, what happened must be the most critical.The woman's appearance has changed from big to small, according to Mu Qingxiang's account, her body has indeed gradually matured in the past ten years.Although the face will not change too much, the body has grown a lot taller, so immortality has nothing to do with this matter. The strange thing about this is, where did such a long time span come from.Even if a vegetative person is lethargic, he will be born, old, sick, and die. It is impossible for all signs of life to be suspended.As I think about it, we've scoured the city and found nothing.When we were about to walk near the wreckage of the plane, we discovered that the wreckage had been occupied by wolves, and there were fifty or sixty sand wolves living there. I was so frightened that I hurriedly told Mu Qingxiang and Uncle Chen to leave. The hateful Uncle Chen wanted to shoot, but I pressed him down.It is important to find water now, it is useless to kill all the wolves, it is better to save all the strength.The wolves stared at us with bared teeth, but luckily they didn't chase us out, probably because they saw the needle box I hurriedly took out. In panic, we turned around the ancient city again, and looked at almost every corner, but we didn't find a drop of water.What is even more unbelievable is that there are only eight springs in the ancient city, and there is no ninth spring at all.Mu Qingxiang also counted carefully and marked them. Although the result was disappointing, it was absolutely unmistakable. All the information and everyone said so, there are nine springs in the ancient city of Yuequan, and there is another spring that keeps emitting clear water, but why can't we find the ninth spring?