As I expected, Iris and her team began to weaken our strength in a way that leaves no trace.
The supply of water, food, and medicine is much less than before, which basically allows us to barely preserve our physical strength, but definitely not let us live comfortably!
After the incident with the black man, they probably became alert. They probably realized that we are probably not archaeologists. When colleagues meet, they are all tough guys. Raising the other party into a big tiger is like making yourself a piece of fat meat, which is the same as hanging an old man. It's just that Iris wants to find the ruins of the capital of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, so she still needs us, so she has never turned against us, but it's just that she didn't turn against us. Every night when we rest, the smell of gunpowder in the air is so obvious that everyone can smell it.
Conflict will break out sooner or later.
Especially the black man Carls. Although he was scared by my torture that night, he returned to his original appearance after recovering. Everyone can feel the fierceness in his eyes when he looks at me every day. This guy is also very tough. He was stabbed three times in the stomach by Iris with a three-edged military bayonet, but he didn't die. When he changed the gauze, I accidentally saw his wound. It was in the shape of a "cross". I don't know who sewed it for him. The flesh lines were stacked into a lump. When the gauze was taken off, blood and pus kept oozing out from the stitches. It was clear that the wound had begun to fester. This symptom appeared in this place where no one can help but cry to the sky and the earth. It was enough for him to feel happy for a long time. His life was hanging by a thread. Whether he could survive depended on fate. So he was just jumping around happily now. He could bear it for a while, but not for a lifetime. I was too lazy to care about him. People who are mean will be punished by heaven. Even if he can't die this time, as long as he dares to challenge again, I dare to draw my sword and kill him.
He hates me to the core, so why don't I want to chop off his black head with a knife?
I couldn't take back this thought since it came up that night. I don't know if it was affected by the murderous aura. Anyway, I feel that my emotions have become more and more violent recently. Sometimes the thoughts that come up will scare me - a few months ago, I was a student who felt that it was a sin to see blood when killing a chicken, but now, sometimes when I am alone in the dead of night, when the heart-wrenching loneliness rushes to my heart, I actually have the idea of taking human life! !
The fight with this black man that night was like a crowbar, prying open the shackles that locked my heart, as if... to let a beast out of my heart!
I can't suppress this feeling. Sometimes even I feel terrified when I think about it carefully. The murderous aura is really too weird.
In such a subtle atmosphere, we rode camels in the desert and walked westward for more than ten days. We usually traveled during the day and rested at night. It was a smooth journey and we did not encounter the terrible black storm in the desert. It was probably a blessing in disguise!
Because of the medicine, although Iris's supply is not sufficient, it is relatively generous compared to the current relationship between the two sides, so in the past ten days, my injuries have greatly improved. After practicing murderous aura, my physical fitness has improved a lot. Even Lin Qing was surprised at the speed of wound healing. In just over ten days, the wounds torn by piranhas in the underground river of Peacock River have scabbed and healed. However, the black and red blood scabs look a bit shocking. Once I take off my clothes, they are all over my body, just like I have been abused. With a Baipi knife, I can directly lift up a one-centimeter-thick, cone-shaped blood scab. The new flesh that has healed below is pink, which makes my eyes twitch. You can see how dark the piranhas' mouths are from these scabs.
In addition to me, the injuries of Fatty and Qingyi have also greatly improved.
Seeing that even if the supply was cut, it still couldn't stop our recovery, Iris became more and more irritable day by day, constantly urging Cao Yuan to speed up, wanting to reach the destination as soon as possible to meet up with their people. Cao Yuan was on our side, so he was naturally not happy and wanted to buy us time. Everyone knew that when we reached the destination, it would be the time for us to fall out.
Both sides spent more than ten days in the desert, and we finally arrived at an ancient ruins at sunset on the afternoon of the seventeenth day. Under the setting sun in the desert, the entire ancient ruins were rendered with a thin layer of brilliance, and there were broken walls and ruins everywhere, telling us the sigh of history.
"We're here!"
Cao Yuan sat on the hump of the first camel, pointed to the vast ruins in front of him from a distance, and said lightly: "The ancient city of Pompeii in the desert, the capital of the ancient Loulan Kingdom in legend, is here."
As soon as she said this, Iris's face turned ugly, and she pulled out the dagger in her boots, angrily saying: "Are you kidding me? You took us around in the desert for more than ten days and you took me to see this? What I'm looking for is the Loulan capital that has never been discovered, not the Loulan ruins that have been discovered for a long time and are now almost turned into a tourist attraction!!"
No wonder Iris was angry, even I smiled bitterly.
What on earth is Cao Yuan doing? The place she brought us to was the Loulan ruins that had been discovered for who knows how long, and now it has almost become a tourist attraction. This is not the Loulan capital we are looking for!
When this piece of land was excavated, archaeologists studied every building in it, but they couldn't find the palace. Finally, they determined that this might be just a city of the Loulan Kingdom. The location of the real Loulan capital is still an unsolved mystery!
Seeing that Iris was about to attack Cao Yuan, the atmosphere among us suddenly became subtle, and the confrontation was once again high!
Who knew that at this time, Cao Yuan looked at the ruins of Loulan in the distance, as if he was mocking Iris, and seemed to be mocking himself, and said softly in a somewhat ethereal tone: "How much do you know about the real Loulan?"
Iris was speechless, but her eyes were still unfriendly: "Then tell me what you mean?"
"What else can it mean? Since I brought you here, it must be because the capital of Loulan is here!"
Cao Yuan emphasized: "The historical capital of Loulan was once a trade hub between the East and the West, and it was extremely prosperous. In order to facilitate public security, its real capital was actually divided into the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is the palace located in the center of the capital, and it is the political center of the entire country. The outer city is where the people live and where merchants from all over the world trade! This relic is actually the capital of Loulan, but the broken walls and ruins you see all belong to the outer city, not the inner city palace! "
"Where is the inner city!"
Iris yelled angrily. The hard life in the desert for more than ten days made this pretty woman extremely embarrassed. Her hair was messy and her face was unkempt. She suffered so much and finally didn't find the place she was looking for. Anyone would go crazy: "I'm looking for the place where Loulan was buried. The inner city palace of the country's wealth is not these broken bricks and tiles! ! "
"Oh?"
Cao Yuan turned his head and looked at Iris jokingly: "So you also know that all the wealth of Loulan is buried in the palace? Then I don't know if you have heard of such a legend - 1,600 years ago, when Loulan was destroyed, the people of Loulan still fantasized about restoring their country one day, so they piled all the wealth of Loulan into the palace, and even locked up many beautiful women in the palace, because the people of Loulan were afraid that when the country was destroyed, these beautiful women would be desecrated by the enemy, and then when the ground was hollowed out, they would The ground was hit hard on the surface, and the entire palace sank into the ground. I hope that one day I can recover and dig out these treasures to restore the country! "
After listening to this, Iris's manic mood gradually calmed down, and she asked Cao Yuan hesitantly: "You mean... the Loulan Palace is buried under this ruins?"
"You can see it by looking at this area and the place in the middle."
Cao Yuan smiled: "Did you find that there is a large open space there?"
When she said this, all of us subconsciously looked over there. Sure enough, in the middle of the broken walls, there was a large open space, and there was no building there!!
Needless to say, that should be where the sunken palace is!