Chapter 32 The Dark River

The rats ate their fill, then swam back to shore and scattered.

Chu Jian picked up the ground gravel, want to throw out to drive those slow walking rats, I stopped him, our family from my grandfather’s generation passed down the rules, the old Hu family is not allowed to harm the rats, anyway, these rats and people do not fight, with them to go is it.

Fatty cursed: “Old Hu you fucking this is called condoning rape, the original water is where the rats bathe and eat, can fucking disgusting dead me, just now that a fierce drink, do not know how many drink down the rat shit urine rat hair.”

I said: “Don’t mention it, okay, the more you think about the more fucking disgusting, let’s not stay here, change the place.”

No one wants to drink the water here, we have to continue to the depths of the cave to find the underground river, there is no other way, only a channel, the sound of running water is from the other end of the channel.

We follow the road ahead, the more we go the more water, the four walls are more and more wet, this passage on both sides of a number of man-made stone chamber, are equipped with iron bars, on the big locks, there are a number of torture instruments, looks like it is used to detain prisoners, now have become a rat’s nest, the ground is black as much as the rat droppings.

To the cave in the passage, line out hundreds of meters away, finally saw a fast-flowing dark river across the mouth of the cave, which is under the sandy sea flow for thousands of years, never dry Zidu dark river, the river is not only a large flow, but also very deep, at the end of it will be merged with the Tarim River.

However, the inland river in the desert of Xinjiang has a characteristic, that is, no matter how much the river flow, can not get out of the desert, into the sea, these desert inland river and underground dark river, will eventually be slowly swallowed by the desert.

On the other side of the river there was another large cave with a black stone bridge connected in the center, the bridge was similarly built with black stones from Zagrama Mountain, flying above the raging waters of the Zidu River.

The other end of the black bridge in front of the cave, there is a jack gate, with a man’s arm thick and thin large iron chain hanging up half, underneath also padded with a huge stone, from the gate under the cave, unfathomable depths, do not know what is where.

Prof. Chen was taken aback: “Previously found that the stone door of the underground palace was blown open, it must be that someone had once come in, this gate is so thick and heavy, and in the deepest part of the third floor of this underground palace, it is very likely that this is the long sleep of the Queen of Jingjie.”

Ancient western countries, often the royal family members of the tomb is located in the city, rather than like the Chinese in the Central Plains, like the Han people, open the mountain for the mausoleum, according to the ridge to build a tomb, this point we have previously in the West Night Ancient City has already appreciated, that the Pu Mo Prince’s ancient tomb, built in the old city of the sacred well, so the professor believes that the Queen of the Essence of the ancient tomb in the dungeon under the ground palace, which is not strange.

Only the crowd felt that it was a bit too smooth, there had been an expedition to this underground palace before, and this cave was not hidden, it must have been discovered by the previous people, could it be that the people who entered the Queen’s tomb, all died inside? Then what exactly is inside? Could it be that the giant cave in the mural is also inside?

I asked Prof. Chen what he meant, to go in or not to go in?

Prof. Chen said without hesitation, “Go in! I must go to see if the ancient tomb of the Queen of Jingjie has been stolen and destroyed, if I don’t have a look, I can’t rest in peace, this old bone is considered to have a good death if it is buried inside, I am so old, I don’t care about anything, but you kids are all still young ah, all of you don’t want to go, I’ll just go by myself.”

Shirley Yang was loading new film for her camera, and without lifting her head, she said, “I’ll naturally go too.” She said it lightly, as if she hadn’t thought at all about whether or not she wanted to enter the ancient tomb of the Queen of Jingjie, but only the question of whether to be the first or the second to go in.

I saw that since this was the case, I couldn’t not go in, if the two of them had a slip-up, how could I be at peace, so I asked Fatty to stay and take care of the three students.

Fatty heard the reluctance: “This daycare center aunt’s work how all belong to me? The three of you to go in, I do not feel comfortable, to go I go with you, or we do not go in. Don’t worry, what gold and silver treasures are inside, I won’t take any of them.”

Chu Jian Sa Di Peng and other people hear not to bring them in, hastily pleaded, no matter how also want to go in to see, this opportunity is too rare, a long way across the black desert, ate how much suffering to come to the Jingjie Ancient City, how can you not look at the most important queen’s mausoleum it? And in case there is something, can also give the gang help.

In this case, everyone has to go, what about Ye Yixin, who is left with a weak body and is awake for a while and confused for a while? Ye Yixin replenished some cold saline water, now has some strength, said to the crowd: “You must not leave me alone here, I have no physical problems, I will go in with everyone.”

I see this can be a problem, I and the fat man’s ability again, also can not take care of over five people ah, not to mention all are some of the old and weak women and children, but also on the big Chu Jian can help us a little help.

I said to the crowd: “Why don’t we do it this way, I’ll go in alone first to take a look, if there’s no danger inside, we’ll go in together. If I go in for more than four or five hours and don’t come out, you guys don’t wait for me, don’t ever enter this tomb again, and get out of here.”

Fatty said, “No, let’s go together, or we can take care of each other.”

I patted Fatty’s shoulder, “I’ll do it alone, I have no problem with my life, in case I have a problem, you still have to bring everyone out safely.”

Shirley Yang said: “Okay, don’t say so sad, I’ll go with you.”

I thought I heard wrong: “You’re going with me? Don’t be ridiculous, if there is any danger, I can easily get away by myself, but if you go with me, I’m afraid I can’t take care of you.”

Shirley Yang said, “It’s still not clear who will take care of who and who, anyway, we can’t let you venture into the Queen’s tomb by yourself.” Said she took the hand of Chu Jian sports rifle over, clattering sound pull open the bolt, see the bullet is loaded, push the bolt to put the bullet on the top of the chamber, she saw this two times I secretly spit out my tongue, dare to be a bit of gun connoisseur, before really did not see.

We are both busy packing the application of equipment, fat man quietly said to me: “Hey old Hu, I think she recently looked at your eyes are not quite right ah, is not a little mean to you? This just where to where on the beginning of the sticky?”

I laughed and scolded: “I think you fucking eyes are not good, I do not see, you see it? I’m not interested in her, too strong woman we do not dare to want, besides, our old man wants to see me lead back an American girl, will not be me dismantled.”

Fatty said: “You have this realization is good, I’m really afraid that you find a daughter-in-law like this, she is the kind of people rely on a couple of stinking money on the bullish who also look down on, fuck, how did you say that before? What’s that old saying? “Little leather shoes, bourgeois ideas. You must resist the sugar-coated attack.”

I loaded the assault rifle that I picked up from the grave robber’s oceanic drop in the valley with bullets, carried the zha medicine and the engineer shovel on my back, replaced the torch with new spare batteries, and held the gold touching talisman made from the claws of the pangolin in my hand for a while, “I implore the blessing of the Ancestor Master.”

At this time, Shirley Yang also finished packing, she asked me if I could see the internal structure of the tomb, I said: “This kind of tomb under the city is unheard of, if I were to look at the structure of the inside of a tomb from the outside, I would have to go through the steps of: searching for veins of the earth, inspecting the situation, searching for the stars and peaks, identifying the source of water, measuring the orientation, determining the field of the cave, and investigating the depths of these steps, and so on, and use these feng shui techniques to determine the age of the tomb and the internal structure of the tomb, but this tomb is in the city. But this tomb is under the city, this is the first time I’ve seen such an ancient tomb, there is a bridge and water in front of the tomb, I really can’t tell what’s in the tomb without feng shui theories. Let’s go in and be careful with everything, especially be careful not to trigger any organs, in addition the most important thing to beware of is that kind of strange snake with a black eye on its head, they move strangely fast and are difficult to dodge.”

Shirley Yang nodded and walked across the stone bridge first, I followed closely behind, under the watchful eyes of the other five people, the two of us, one after the other, crossed the black stone bridge, and drilled in under the jack gate.