Chapter 488: There's a detour, there's something under the water

Chapter 488: There's a detour, there's something under the water

You don’t know day or night underground, so you can only use a watch to keep time.

 At seven o'clock in the morning, everyone who had taken turns to rest for two hours woke up one after another.

 After a brief wash, I ate some dry food and water that I brought with me to fill my stomach, and set off again.

Yun Yi walked last and closed the door, clasping his hands together and saying, "Thank you for staying the night."

Chang Ning turned around and saw what he did: "..."

I have to say that we have made great progress!

 Following yesterday's bedtime discussion, everyone checked again this time, and everyone was much more careful.

 But the more we investigate, the more uncomfortable it becomes.

“It seems that this is not an isolated case. No one is using the furniture in this house, so what’s the purpose of building it? It can’t just be used as a decoration, right? Such a large-scale decoration is really luxurious!”

One of the team members under Xu Zhao couldn't help but sigh. After saying this, not only his captain, but also Miss Jiang who was walking at the front looked towards him with stern eyes, and suddenly felt panicked, "I, Did I say something wrong?"

"No."

 “That’s right.”

Jiang Lingxi and Xu Zhao shook their heads at him and almost finished speaking in unison, then looked at each other.

“This ruins is probably just a decoration.”

"ah?"

“If this site is regarded as a large tomb, then no living people will live in it, and all the buildings here are not just decorations.”

When they walked across a bridge and saw water flowing in the underground river below, their guess that it was a large tomb became more certain.

 In a place like the desert, water is so precious that even a child who has just begun to remember knows it.

 Even if you have water, you would be foolish to move to another place.

 Unless no one lives in this place!

 Seeing water in the desert, even in this huge ancient tomb, is undoubtedly an exciting thing.

 At noon, everyone unanimously decided to rest on the bridge.

Yun Yi also walked down from the bridge and ran to the river to take a closer look. When he heard the footsteps, he turned around and saw that it was Chang Ning. He immediately said excitedly: "The water in the river is very clear. You can see the fine sand underneath. It should be able to boil it." Drink?"

"I advise you to give up this idea," Chang Ning said, squatting down, picking up a small stone, and throwing it into the water. The water in that area suddenly became turbid, and it took a while to become clear again. "Since there is a lot of water here, Maybe it’s a tomb, and things in that tomb are generally taboo, so don’t touch them if you can.”

Yunyi quickly took back his hand that was about to touch the water.

The two of them turned around and went back without looking back. Naturally, they didn't see the water surface where Chang Ning had just thrown the stone. A string of bubbles slowly emerged from the bottom.

 The water surface quickly returned to calm.

Although there is an extra river, the strange thing is that the surrounding air is not much moister.

 Basically every half an hour of walking, you need to drink water to relieve your thirst.

Jiang Lingxi tightened the cap of the mineral water bottle and put it back in her bag, "Since we assume this is a tomb, the most important place should be the residence of the owner of the tomb. Unsurprisingly, the destination of Chang Cangmen is also there."

"Sir, they should have arrived, right? Even if they haven't arrived, they should be there soon."

Jiang Lingxi closed her eyes and recalled the map on the USB flash drive she had read. "Since it is an ancient capital, the location of the tomb owner is most likely the imperial city. Let's continue moving forward."

 The time came to three o'clock in the afternoon, and they came to a fork in the road.

This is not the first fork in the road they have taken, they have passed through several before.

This time it was Jiang Lingxi who stopped first.

“What’s wrong, Sister Xi, are you tired? If you are tired, let’s...”

“Chang Ning, Brother Xu, and Yun Yi, look at that wooden plaque in front of you, do you think it looks familiar?”

 What is written on the wooden plaque? Everyone looked at him intently.

 “Mingji Bufang.”

“There are still chain stores in this ancient cloth workshop? It’s quite advanced!”

Chang Ning endured being speechless, "Are you sure this is a chain? Don't you think this place is exactly the same as what you saw before?"

Yun Yi's expression suddenly changed. He turned around and saw that everyone's expressions were not much better.

“Are we...circling back again? But I remember that we have been moving forward!”

When he walked onto the familiar bridge again, Yun Yi made a point of looking at the footprints he and Chang Ning had taken back and forth to the river. Now the last trace of luck was gone.

“It seems that I was a little too optimistic before. Also, since it is a tomb, how could there be no blocking mechanism?”

“Don’t leave yet, let’s go through the road we have taken before and see where the problem arises.”

Changning cooperated and took out a pen and paper. At Jiang Lingxi's signal, each person was given a piece of paper and a pen.

Jiang Lingxi took the pen and paper, "As long as I can remember it, I will draw it. We must think about it carefully. If we can't find a way out, we will have to keep wandering here."

Everyone's heart was frightened when they heard this, and their minds were spinning rapidly for a while.

After Jiang Lingxi finished her drawing, she looked up and saw that everyone else was still busy writing. She put down the paper and pen and quietly got up, walked to the river, and looked at the time on the watch.

 It’s half past five in the afternoon.

 It’s almost night again.

 The harvest of this day cannot be said to be nothing, but it is very limited.

I don’t know if Yun Qing and the others encountered a similar situation when they passed by here.

The sound of gurgling bubbles interrupted Jiang Lingxi's contemplation.

The sound came from the water in front of her. She took a few steps back and then moved her flashlight to the water.

 It was then that I discovered that a thin layer of mist had floated on the water surface from unknown time.

How thin is this mist? It is just a thin layer on the water and cannot even float.

 But in this way, light cannot penetrate, and there is no way to see what is going on under the water.

 The flashlight light shines directly on the place where Gululu is bubbling, and the mist seems to come out of the water through the bubbles that emerge.

One second the flashlight light passed, and the next second there was a bubbling sound.

Jiang Lingxi also had a meal.

If it reacts to light, it is most likely not dead.

The first thing she remembered about living existence was the flash of green eyes she saw in the first inn she entered last night.

 Perhaps there really are indigenous people in the ruins of this ancient capital.

 What I discovered last night was probably not an illusion!

This water doesn’t look very deep. Do you want to go down and find out?

As soon as the thought passed through my mind, Chang Ning's voice came from the bridge: "Sister Xi? Everyone has finished drawing. Would you like to come over and take a look?"

 “Come to the river, there is something in the river.”

 After a while, a group of people came running over.

 Looking at the mist floating on the river and the bubbles popping up, no one spoke for a while.

"No, it can't be!" Yun Yi opened his mouth, "Chang Ning and I have come to see it before. You can see the bottom of this water at a glance. There is obviously nothing under the water except sand!"

 “What about under the sand?”

Yunyi was completely speechless.