Revolution in the depths of the soul

Xinjiang, the southern edge of the Tarim Basin.During the Mesozoic Era 2.5 million years ago, a huge cosmic meteorite fell to the blue planet with fire and thunder, and hit the edge of the Tianshan Mountains in the Eurasian continent, triggering a series of crustal movements. The ancient crystalline rocks sank, revealing an endless continuous desert.

A closed basin is formed in the ring-shaped mountains, and the desert in the middle is called "Taklamakan". In ancient Turkic, "the castle buried under the sand" is also called "the sea of ​​death".

19 years ago, the South China Sword Special Operations Group was dispatched collectively to solve a major case in the Tarim Basin.At that time, Tang You hadn't joined the group yet, and Zhan Xing was still at home waiting to be fed.

There was almost no technical support and archaeological data for that operation, and it was extremely difficult. The red and blue had nothing to do, so they had to ask Lu Shaorong in New York for help remotely.They used the Chinese satellite positioning system and acoustic underground survey equipment to successfully confirm the ancient Lop Nur ruins, killed nearly a hundred tomb robbers on the spot, and sealed an underground palace in Loulan.

After Tang You received the call from Zhanxing, he accessed the database while the special forces were not looking, called up the blue print report 19 years ago, and obtained a topographic map of the center of the Taklamakan Desert.

"This place is just one of the dry seas." Zhan Xing opened the map and looked at it in the sunlight: "Lop Nur is a moving lake, leaving too many traces."

Tang Youdao: "According to the map, part of the ancient underground ruins of Loulan is in the middle of the quicksand cave at the bottom of the lake, but it has been sealed. What do you want to go in for?"

Zhan Xing said: "I want to investigate the origin of this box. My dad said that it was probably brought out from the tomb that Uncle Hong and the others found. Let's check separately first. Is there anyone selling cultural relics in small batches recently?"

They stopped at Haitou Town, southwest of Loulan, to refuel the desert jeep and replenish fresh water. Since Peng Jiamu disappeared in Kumkuduk in the last century, China has strengthened geological surveys in the Loulan area. Eighty years later, from Baba From Yin Gol to Milan, and then to Haitou Town, a people's livelihood route has been established.

Occasionally, travelers go to the Tarim Basin for surveys, and the place where they land is Haitou.

In April, the dry season in the desert has begun, and the market is not very lively. In the afternoon, Zhan Xing and Lin Jingfeng hold hands and search a stall.

"Where do you think Zhang Hui will go?" Lin Jingfeng still couldn't figure it out. He picked up a stone flower with his finger and compared it repeatedly with the desert-style stone sculpture on the booth.

Zhan Xing lazily walked behind Lin Jingfeng, shrugging his shoulders: "Who knows, he can release Gu, right? It shouldn't be too dangerous, but I'm curious about that ring."

According to Di Qing's narration, the sudden process of the whole incident seemed very unimaginable. After putting on the ring, Zhang Hui seemed to disappear out of thin air. Could it be that he had time-traveled?

Zhan Xing: "I heard from my father that some things carry the memory of the owner's previous life, so it's possible..."

"Hush." ​​Lin Jingfeng motioned to Zhan Xing: "Look at that kid."

Zhan Xing put up an awning, and looked along where Lin Jingfeng pointed, and saw Di Qing standing on the edge of the desert, surrounded by a flying insect alone.

The beetle buzzed around him, but didn't leave.

Tang You said, "Can't find anyone?"

With red eyes, Di Qing shook her head.

"There is no similar box nearby." Huo Hu came over, and everyone gathered again.

Zhan Xing had an idea, and asked, "Aside from the Qianshan God Insect, did Zhang Hui leave you with anything like a guide bee?"

Di Qing stood there for a long time, Zhan Xing gave up and said, "Get in the car and go to the possible places first. There are marks on the map, so don't be too sad."

Di Qing suddenly said: "Do you have a knife? Lend me one."

Lin Jingfeng took out a Swiss Army Knife and handed it over. Di Qing rolled up his shirt sleeves and stabbed his arm with the blade.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Zhan Xing and Tang You stopped together.

Di Qing gritted his teeth and said, "No...it's okay...it doesn't hurt..."

Blood dripped down, dripping down his arm, and he could vaguely see a cyan Gu, the size of a fingertip, wriggling slowly deep in the wound where the flesh had been cut open.

Zhan Xing remembered the Gu flying out of Bomu's body that he had seen in the depths of Shiwanda Mountain, and immediately confirmed his conjecture - Di Qing had the soul fragments of Bomu's reincarnation on him.

Several people couldn't bear to watch, only to hear Di Qing whisper: "Can you find it? Please help me..."

The Gu worm spread its wings, flew away from Di Qing's body with a buzzing sound, circled in the air, and wanted to go east, Di Qing said: "It's not Zhang Shuai! It's Zhang Hui!"

The Gu worm slowly turned around in the air and flew towards the desert.

"Catch up!"

Several people ran into the jeep, Di Qing leaned on the back seat, Lin Jingfeng started the car, and followed the moon gu into the desert.

Di Qing leaned on in a daze, Huo Hu took out the bandage and bandaged Di Qing.

As far as the eye can see, it is desolate, the desert is like shiny silk satin under the scorching sun, and the skulls of dead beasts, fossilized plants, and unknown mineral crystals lie quietly in the dry salt crystal shell of the lake.

Green Gu flew ahead, and the jeep bumped and knocked off the crystallization section, followed closely behind.

Zhan Xing said: "Watch the road, watch out for a flat tire..."

Everyone said in unison: "Don't be crowed!"

Zhan Xing raised his hands in surrender, pressed the car window and looked out, a wave of heat swept in, Tang You was furious, closed the car window, and shouted: "It's so hot!"

Tang You closed the car window, opened the window, and the two had a lot of trouble. Huo Hu complained: "It's cold and hot and you will lose your hair..."

In the end, Tang You pressed the switch firmly, and clamped one of Zhan Xing's arms out of the window.

"What's this place?" Lin Jingfeng unfolded the map: "It's wrong with the location you marked."

"Hey, let me take out my hand..." Zhan Xing pulled out his hand, Tang You was afraid of the heat, and immediately locked all four car windows.

Zhan Xing replied: "Lop Nur often changes its location. Look, there is the ancient channel of the Kongque River. It used to flow into a low depression and formed a large lake. Later, the sand and stones brought by the river settled and filled the lake level. When the river changes course, the lake follows..."

Tang Youdao: "Is this why Loulan moved the whole city?"

Zhan Xing hesitated, "Maybe it's...not sure, it stopped?"

The Gu worms flew to the end of the dry riverbed, a salt crystal beach with hundreds of square kilometers, and stopped in the middle of the ancient lake ruins.

Densely packed with countless animal carcasses, black scorpions drilled out of the ground and climbed on the skulls of desert sheep, camels and other herbivores.

Lin Jingfeng drove over along the road, and drove towards the place where the Gu worms were parked.

"Zhang Hui will be here?" Zhan Xing shook Di Qing: "Wake up, hello."

Di Qing lost a lot of blood and was still asleep. Huo Hu put on his sunglasses and wanted to get out of the car, but Lin Jingfeng said: "There are too many scorpions, don't run around."

The tires crushed a desert scorpion to death, milky white insect body fluids splashed, and the jeep slowly approached the Gu worm hovering high above.

Zhan Xing said, "I think it's best not to get too close..."

Lin Jingfeng: "You open the skylight and look up."

As soon as the words fell, the whole jeep suddenly tilted, everyone shouted loudly, and Di Qing opened his eyes suddenly.

"What's wrong!"

Lin Jingfeng: "Quicksand! Isn't the surface here hard? How could there be quicksand?!"

Zhan Xing: "Open the door!"

Tang You: "I'm pressed by the sand! I can't open it!"

The jeep sank rapidly, and the surrounding quicksand covered it together, filling the traces between the body and the ground.

Huo Hu pushed and shook violently, Lin Jingfeng shouted: "Get out through the window!"

Zhan Xing: "I was locked up by Tang You! It's all his fault!"

Tang You: "You..."

It was dark all around.

"Oh good." Zhan Xing said, "The air conditioner is gone now."

Tang You said frantically: "What time is it! Still talking about this!"

Lin Jingfeng tried to honk the horn, the sound was very strange when he was muffled in the sand, and now there was nothing wrong with it.

Zhan Xing: "Open the chassis and have a look, put a bomb on the bottom, and use the recoil to send us flying."

Huo Hu: "..."

Lin Jingfeng said: "Wait, it's still sinking."

The speed of the sinking became very slow, and then accelerated rapidly. The sudden sense of weightlessness made Zhan Xing's heart suspend, and his whole heart lifted.

"Wow ah-"

The front of the jeep fell sharply, dragging the quicksand and fell into a five-meter-high space. With a bang, the glass shattered, turned over, and fell into the dark underground cave.

15 minute later.

"Are...are you alright? Wake up." In the darkness, Di Qing said.

The crackling noises around fell silent, and the green gu buzzed and stopped above Di Qing's head, emitting a quiet light green light, illuminating a small area.

"Little bitch!" Lin Jingfeng sounded alert.

Zhanxing lay on the quicksand, gasping for breath, and was thrown out when the jeep fell.

"It's...not bad." Zhan Xing held Di Qing's shoulders and sat up: "Where's little master? Brother Hu? Tang You!"

Zhan Xing patted on a cold light tube, and the surrounding scorpions receded abruptly, flashing towards the crevices of the rocks.

Zhan Xing dragged Lin Jingfeng out of the broken front window, and began to search for Tang You. Tang You was lying on another piece of soft sand, and coughed a mouthful of sand after being shaken awake.

"Woooooh, brother Hu, I'll give you three sticks of incense plus beef jerky and milk..." Zhan Xing patted Huo Hu's face, and Huo Hu remained motionless.

"It's really dead, isn't it?" Zhan Xing said, stretching out his hand to scratch Huo Hu's chin.

"Hmm...don't touch me." Huo Hu woke up wretchedly.

"What's the situation?" Huo Hu shook off the sand.

After Lin Jingfeng confirmed that the team members were all right, he held up the cold light tube and several people gathered towards the jeep.

Zhan Xing raised his head and murmured, "What place is this?" After falling down, he couldn't take a closer look, but now he suddenly found that they were in a vast underground cave, with occasional bursts of quicksand falling from the top of their heads, surrounded by At a high place, the rock pillar supporting the entire space.

"The underground space of the lake in the past." Tang You was bumped into a bag on his head, dizzy: "Why does it sound like there is water?"

Zhan Xing put his ear on the rock pillar, and heard the gurgling water flow, there must be an underground river nearby.

"Look here." Lin Jingfeng said.

There are neatly arranged skulls at the base of the surrounding rock pillars, sixteen in a circle, each rock pillar has one.

The rock pillars juxtaposed on both sides are like neat corridors, leading to the end of the dark and deep underground cave.

Zhan Xing urged: "Go and have a look."

Lin Jingfeng: "What about the car?"

Zhan Xing: "Don't worry about it, we'll talk about it later."

The rock pillars lined up one by one to the distance, Zhan Xing turned his head and found that Di Qing was weak, following behind the crowd, he suddenly said: "Carrying you?"

Di Qing said gratefully, "No, I... can walk by myself."

At the end of the stone road is an abyss. The stone platform on the cliff is like a symmetrical balance with two ends, and there is an upright copper coffin on each balance.

The center of the scale is completely overhead, without any inlay technology, and the only sharp copper pillar stands on the edge of the stone beam protruding from the cliff.

The sound of the water was clear, and under the Baizhang cliff, there was an underground river rushing by.

Zhan Xing jumped up to the middle of the altar, and at the midpoint where the two arms of the scale were connected, there was a small altar slanting towards him.

"Be careful!" Lin Jingfeng said.

Zhan Xing stood firm, the balance slowly tilted to the right, Zhan Xing hurriedly turned his body to restore its balance.

Lin Jingfeng broke into a cold sweat from fright, if he fell, he would be in trouble.

Zhan Xing said: "I found the original location of the box." He took out the box containing the ring from his pocket, and placed it in the middle of the altar, just fitting the dust there.

Lin Jingfeng said: "How can the things that are here be spread outside?"

Zhan Xing scratched his head, and Di Qing said, "The boss who sells things... said...he picked them from the river."

Zhan Xing nodded, guessing that it was mostly because of the slope angle of the altar that the box slipped down over time, fell into the underground river, and was carried away by the river.

Green Gu flew to the copper coffin on the left, Di Qing hesitated for a moment: "Can I... go over and have a look?"

Zhan Xing turned around and pulled him up, saying, "Be careful, let's move to the two sides together."

Lin Jingfeng: "You guys are too risky..."

Zhan Xing: "You and Tang You also come up, Brother Hu is too heavy, wait below."

Lin Jingfeng jumped onto the altar and pulled Tang You up, Zhan Xing said: "My weight plus Xiao Tang's is probably about the same as yours plus Di Qing's weight, go over there and have a look."

The four of them began to cross their bodies slowly, moving towards the sides of the scale. Huo Hu threw out ropes, tied them to the rock pillars, and each held one to avoid emergencies.

Zhan Xing and Tang You slowly moved to the platform on the right, stood in front of the coffin, and looked at the ancient characters on the coffin.

"Is it Loulan language?" Tang You asked.

Zhan Xing looked sideways for a while, then turned on the phone to compare the database in the memory card, looking for fonts.

"It should be Qulu Wen from Central Asia." Zhan Xing murmured, "It means 'sinner'. Are the prisoners locked inside?"

There were no nails on the coffin lid, so Zhan Xing opened the wooden coffin with a little force.

"Wow." Tang You said, "Men and women."

The corpse in the coffin was a long-haired young man, Zhan Xing bowed and shook the cold light tube, and said, "The man is still a child, probably only fourteen or fifteen years old."

"What did you see?" Lin Jingfeng asked, "I want to open the coffin."

Zhan Xing: "This is a boy."

Tang You asked doubtfully, "Do all Loulan people dress like this?"

Zhan Xing shook his head slowly: "It's not like Gu Loulan's clothes, his wild fox hat, and wolf fur jacket...it looks like a Kazakh, why are they here?"

The Kazakh teenager died nearly 2000 years ago, but the appearance of the mummy is still lifelike. It can be seen that he had a handsome appearance during his lifetime. Tang You said, "Look at his hands."

The fingers of the boy's hand were bent, retaining the unnatural state of death, and a blue ring was worn on the ring finger.

Zhan Xing's heart moved, he took the corpse's hand, looked at his face, and gently took off the ring.

The ring was unexpectedly easy to fade, and it was torn off with a slight movement.

Tang You: "Could it be this?"

Zhan Xing: "I'll ask Di Qing, you wait here."

On the opposite platform, with a bang, Lin Jingfeng also took off the copper coffin lid.

"There is also a corpse here." Lin Jingfeng frowned and said, "It's a man, very tall."

Zhan Xing said: "I'll go over and have a look, Brother Hu, come up."

Huo Hu responded and jumped onto the fulcrum.Zhanxing walked over like a crab, exchanged places with Huo Hu, and ordered: "Go slowly."

Huo Hu moved towards Tang You humbly, now there were five people standing on the scale, Huo Hu and Tang You stood on one side, Zhan Xing, Lin Jingfeng and Di Qing stood on the other side.

Lin Jingfeng said, "Look at him."

Zhan Xing took a deep breath, and saw another handsome male corpse bound by iron chains inside the copper coffin. His skin was not decayed, his eye sockets were sunken, his face was thin, and his hands were intertwined and fixed in front of his shoulders. Head down, short hair hanging by the ear.

The male corpse was half a head taller than Lin Jingfeng, nearly 1.9 meters long. On his slender and beautiful fingers, he wore four exquisite rings, except for the one on his ring finger.

"Is the one you bought at the street stall the same?" Zhan Xing asked.

Di Qing nodded slowly, and reached out to touch the ring on the male corpse's hand.

Zhan Xing said: "According to the restoration of the archaeological manual, this should be Loulan's clothing."

The male corpse was wearing a short cloth jacket, and his lower body was corseted shorts, leather boots, and leggings.There was also a dagger hanging from his waist.

"Don't move around." Lin Jingfeng stopped Zhan Xing from touching the dagger, put his fist on his chin, and asked suspiciously, "Who is this?"

Zhan Xing deduced: "This guy is an assassin. Loulan people wear long knives without exception. His weapon in life was a dagger. Look..."

Zhan Xing gently raised his stiff five fingers, and the joints were still able to move: "A tiger's mouth is not like a person holding a knife."

Lin Jingfeng nodded and said, "Who is in the coffin over there?"

Zhan Xing: "It's a kid in his teens."

Lin Jingfeng: "Brother Hu! Let's change places."

Huo Hu's only role was to weigh the weight, and immediately moved it carefully along the scale arm.

Lin Jingfeng ordered: "You wait here."

Di Qing looked at it for a while, then asked: "What brother Hui is wearing should be the ring on his ring finger, is that so?"

Zhan Xing nodded: "There are five rings in total, we have to figure out the relationship between these rings first..."

Di Qing stretched out his hand to pick off the ring on the assassin's left hand, which was also unexpectedly easy to pick off. Zhan Xing said, "I just found one in that coffin, look..."

Di Qing took off the tail ring on the little finger of the male corpse, facing the light pipe, and got together with Zhan Xing to compare the two rings, but couldn't see why.

Huo Hu and Lin Jingfeng checked their positions and passed each other on the scale arm to the right of the center.

Zhan Xing turned around to pick off the rest of the rings from the male corpse, Di Qing looked at it for a while, pursed his lips, put the tail ring on the little finger of his left hand, and disappeared out of thin air.

Zhan Xing only felt himself rising, and turned his head suddenly: "Hey! Where is Di Qing!"

At that moment, Lin Jingfeng turned his head immediately, the place where Tang You was standing kept sinking, and shouted: "What's going on!"

"He's gone! He put the ring on!" Zhan Xing said, "What should I do? Brother Hu, come here!"

Huo Hu quickened his pace and ran to the end of the scale. Tang You started to shout. Lin Jingfeng opened his arms, leaned over the crossbeam, and shouted: "Steady! Brother Hu, don't go too far! Or you will fall!"

The scale suddenly lost weight like a seesaw, Lin Jingfeng and Huo Hu ran to the other end of the beam at the same time, Huo Hu braked suddenly, and the scale sank again towards Zhan Xing's end.

"Oh, it's not good..." Zhan Xing realized that Huo Hu had gone too far.

Huo Hu: "???"

"It's about to slide down!" Lin Jingfeng said: "Brother Hu, come here!"

Huo Hu was confused, and ran towards Lin Jingfeng again.

Zhan Xing said: "No no! Don't move! I have a solution!"

Zhanxing put on the ring he took off from the Kazakh boy, and disappeared under the gaze of the three.

Lin Jingfeng yelled furiously: "Is that what you call a solution?!"

Huo Hu was completely dumbfounded. Standing in the middle of the beam, Lin Jingfeng took a stride and rushed to the left. The disappearance of Zhan Xing caused the scale to balance briefly again, and then slowly sank towards Tang You's end.

Lin Jingfeng ran fast, rushed in front of the male corpse, took off the remaining three rings, threw the largest clasp on his thumb to Huo Hu, and shouted: "Catch it! Xiao Tang runs in the middle!"

Tang You didn't care about the seesaw anymore, and ran towards Lin Jingfeng, raising his hand to catch the other index finger ring flying towards him.

"Put it on!" Lin Jingfeng shouted.

Tang You and Lin Jingfeng put on the ring together, and disappeared with a whoosh.

Huo Hu looked around: "Hey! Then what should I do?"

Libra was about to fall to the cliff, Huo Hu had no choice but to put on his thumb ring, darkness flashed in front of him, followed by endless light, the scene changed suddenly, and he returned to the ancient Loulan 2000 years ago.

Everyone disappeared, and the Libra Altar slowly returned to its original position.