More than half an hour later.
Oona finally ended the interrogation.
After entering the Western Regions for so long, everyone has actually learned a few words in Uyghur. It is not a problem to simply say hello, but now that the big event is coming, it is best for her to be the translator.
As for Pat.
After all, I came from a lower class and have not seen too many bloody events in the world.
And the results of the interrogation.
It was exactly as they had guessed early on.
There are two teams in the city.
A group crossed Central Asia and crossed Kunlun.
That is, the thirteen corpses hanged on the city gate.
The other one is the guy whose hands and feet are tied.
The name is Hoja.
I heard he is a descendant of a saint.
Chen Yulou didn’t pay much attention to this.
Most of the Uighurs I met along the way had very long names, and the naming patterns were also all kinds of strange.
According to Hoja.
Their team is extremely large, with nearly a hundred people.
A mixed bag.
Most of them are bandits from southern Xinjiang, and there are also a small number of defeated Tsarist Russian troops.
At first, they moved back and forth between Shule and Yarkand.
He committed murder, set fires, rob passing traders, and committed all kinds of evil.
Until I met the group of foreign devils crossing the border.
Although most people in Central Asia have blond hair and blue eyes, they are still very different from each other.
What's more.
Trading merchants on the ancient Silk Road.
Rarely carry large numbers of weapons.
The bandit boss was keenly aware that there was something wrong with that group of people.
So he resolutely detained the team.
After some torture, a confession was extracted.
They really asked me something.
Those people came from the distant European continent, talking and doing inspections.
But the real purpose is to come to an ancient city in the black desert.
In fact, Marco Polo's rumors about the East have been circulating in Europe.
Gold, porcelain, silk, brocade and jade depicted in the biography.
Everything has stimulated adventurers of all ages.
It's just that Europe and Asia are too far apart. It often takes years to drift from the sea, and few people can accurately reach the Eastern Continent.
For various reasons, they chose to go around Central Asia.
And the reason for all this.
We have to start with an explorer named Stein.
According to his statement, when he was wandering in the Western Region, he accidentally broke into a black desert. As a result, the camel team was lost in the wind and sand. When he was about to die, he was taken into an ancient city by a camel.
The ancient city is located under two tall black mountains.
The city has long been abandoned.
No trace of human beings.
But the city is filled with gold and silver.
Buried are treasures that ordinary people cannot retrieve in ten lifetimes.
After receiving the news, a group of people organized a group of fanatical adventurers to come to the Western Regions to find the legendary ancient city.
And when they heard that there was such an amazing treasure.
How can a group of bandits be able to hold back.
I immediately became greedy.
After all, as long as you dig the ancient city, you will have countless gold and silver.
So they forced themselves to follow the team and entered the Black Desert.
It took several months of walking and many people died before finally reaching the ancient city of Jingjue.
But before they could get excited.
The seemingly peaceful ancient city is actually dangerous.
Especially a black strange snake.
Not only was the speed astonishing, but it was also extremely poisonous. In just a few days, more than ten brothers were killed.
In desperation, a group of bandits turned their attention to those foreign devils.
Anyway, we have arrived at the ancient city that we have longed for.
Of course they have no use.
So, in the following time, those people were driven with guns into the city to explore the way.
The fate of those people is naturally self-evident.
Fortunately, they are not useless, they just used their blood and lives to build a path.
As for why their bodies were hung on the city gate.
Hoja said that after they entered the city, they were worried that outsiders would break in, so they used this method to scare newcomers.
This was also when they were causing trouble in Yarkand and other places.
A commonly used method.
If they kill too much and the heads are rolling in, everyone will naturally be afraid of them.
"Then where did you go after entering the city?"
When the interrogation came to this point.
Chen Yulou asked a question that everyone is concerned about.
"Underground..."
"There is a big city below the ancient city."
Hoja did not hesitate.
“Is it the Queen’s Palace?”
“Have you found the Queen’s treasure?”
The moment the words "Underground Ancient City" appeared, everyone's minds couldn't help but move.
Yang Fang and Guaizi couldn't help but ask impatiently.
But as soon as he finished speaking, Hoja didn't know what he was thinking of. His whole body was trembling uncontrollably, his face was as pale as gold paper, and cold sweat was pouring down his forehead because of fear.
A long time passed.
Wait until your mind finally calms down a little.
Hojaci gnashed his teeth and cursed loudly.
"Those foreigners are full of lies. We didn't find a single piece of gold or silver in the underground city... Instead, we encountered countless venomous snakes."
"Every minute Some people died."
"That is the devil's residence, and those poisonous snakes are the devil's messengers. If we rush in and disturb the devil's sleep, we will be killed."
"Snake Cave?!"
Just two words.
Everyone suddenly felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
Especially Huamaguai, the smile on his face froze instantly.
After all, he is the only one in the team who has been attacked by a snake so far.
Only one thing separates yin and yang.
In addition, during this period of time, the closer to the ancient city of Jingjue, the more and more imprints of the black snake appeared.
Their existence was always shrouding his mind like a nightmare.
Now I heard the word "Snake Cave" from Hoja's mouth with my own ears.
Huamaguai felt a chill rush straight to the top of his head, his vision became blurred, and countless images intertwined before his eyes, finally settling into a black snake figure with scarlet eyes.
“The kidnapper?”
It was Chen Yulou who first noticed something strange about him.
He reached out and patted him on the shoulder.
A ray of pure Aoki spiritual energy passed through the palm of my hand.
The spiritual energy passed through all the veins in his limbs. Huamaguai felt a chill all over his body, and then his eyes blurred, and the noise in his ears gradually dissipated, becoming clear again.
Hu——
Huamaguai let out a long sigh of relief.
Cold sweat dripped from his forehead.
Seeing everyone looking at him worriedly, he waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.
“Besides you, is there anyone else alive?”
Chen Yulou’s eyes flashed and he looked at Huo Jia sitting on the ground again.
"No more..."
Hoja shook his head.
A look of loneliness and fear.
"At least when I left, I didn't meet anyone. If I fell into the devil's cave, there would be no chance of survival."
A team of hundreds of people.
It took nearly half a year.
In the end, only Hoja survived.
It’s not tragic.
However, they are not responsible for their lack of human support and they have ended up like this.
"The snake you encountered...does it have any weaknesses?"
The atmosphere became silent.
After pondering for a moment, the old foreigner suddenly asked.
Although according to the ancient rumors in the clan, the clan members had the experience of besieging and killing black snakes as early as the era of the ancestors, but it was too old after all, and the exact method of killing them was not recorded.
"Fire..."
"Snakes are treacherous things, and they are most afraid of the scorching sun." Hoja hesitated for a moment, but finally chose to tell the truth.
His current situation is like mutton on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered. Unless he can grow a pair of wings, he alone will not be able to get out until he dies.
Such a vast and boundless black desert.
With no one to support him and alone, the man-eating beasts alone could bite him into pieces.
So, it is better to take refuge in these people now.
Although their identities and origins are currently unknown, with a team of several hundred people, they might actually be able to accomplish something.
"Since we know that black snakes are afraid of fire, why are you still in such a situation?"
The old foreigner frowned and continued to ask.
Huo Jia was a little frightened by him. After all, he was definitely impressed by the kick just now. The bones on the inner side of his calf were still feeling a dull pain.
See him frowning at this moment.
His eyes immediately looked at Oona on the side.
After listening to her translation.
But he couldn't help but show a touch of bitterness on his face.
“The underground city was astonishingly big, completely beyond all of our expectations. The torches we carried were simply not enough... plus we were driven away by a tide of snakes and couldn’t find our way out.”
"What were you watching before?"
At the moment when his mind was intertwined.
Chen Yulou suddenly spoke out, piercing his heart.
Huo Jia, whose ears were still ringing with the screams of his brothers and the rustling sounds like the devil's whisper, couldn't help but have a flash of panic deep in his eyes, but he immediately became calm.
“No, it’s nothing.”
“I’m just afraid that those black snakes will catch up.”
Hear the words.
No one felt any problem.
But Chen Yulou shook his head, "No, you are lying."
Although he spoke in Chinese.
Facing those eyes that were as blazing as fire, as if they could penetrate people's hearts, Huo Jia immediately understood what he meant.
"No, I didn't. I was just running for my life."
Everyone who was still thinking about how to deal with the snake cave in the underground city felt the sudden panic in his tone and raised their heads.
For a while.
The gaze fell like a sword.
Although Huo Jia was a bandit and was responsible for countless lives, for some reason, these people outside him were obviously dressed as businessmen, but they gave him a more murderous feeling than them.
He had no doubts.
As long as you keep making things up.
What awaits him is the sword and ax.
Under the terrifying pressure, Hoja finally failed to hold on.
"It's the devil..."
"Sacrifice your life to him, and you will live forever."
Finish this sentence.
Hoja breathed in the air.
The whole person lay on the sand, his face pale, as if the last bit of strength had been drained away.
And his words seemed quite ambiguous.
At least that was the case for Oona, who tried to translate it several times before finally finding a word that seemed to her relatively appropriate.
"Eternal life?!"
Hear these two words.
Chen Yulou seemed to have a rising tide and a thunderous fall in his mind.
In those ancient times, the ancient kingdoms kept sacrificing their lives to the snake god in exchange for mana.
Countless slaves and prisoners of war were killed.
In the end, God is angry and everyone is angry.
The Samsara Sect before them had similar practices. In order to pursue the so-called immortality, they constantly killed and sacrificed prisoners.
The hidden meaning in Huo Jia’s words was extremely clear.
A team of hundreds of people.
I'm afraid many of them died in his hands.
Thinking of this, Chen Yulou's eyes flashed and he appeared outside Huo Jia instantly.
I reached out my hand and grabbed the back collar of his robe and pulled hard. There was a squeaking sound, and the robe was torn into two pieces.
In the firelight.
A lifelike 'ghost eye' appeared.
As if it had been carved not long ago, it still had a strange feeling of scarlet red like blood.
"Curse..."
The moment I saw that ghost eye.
Partridge Whistle and the old foreigner were shocked and spoke out almost at the same time.
The actions of the two people even alerted the people who were still busy in the distance, causing Hua Ling and Miss Hong to look here frequently.
Especially Hua Ling.
She still doesn’t know what happened.
Just seeing the sudden change in the behavior of the two senior brothers, I couldn't help biting my lips, and my clear eyes were filled with worry.
"It is indeed."
The others didn't understand what it was.
Just seeing the appearance of the two Partridge Whistle, I instinctively realized that something was serious.
What's more, those ghost eyes are vivid and enchanting, as if a demon has been planted in Hoja's body. It will squeeze out the flesh and blood at any time, open the ghost eyes and drill out.
Only Chen Yulou had a clear look on his face.
Trading with the snake god never ends well.
Huo Jia thought that his words were perfectly fabricated.
But he never imagined that there were people in the world who could penetrate the mind at a glance, let alone that in terms of understanding of ghost curses, he would not be able to match the three people in front of him among a hundred people.
I noticed the pity in Chen Yulou's eyes.
Hoja finally noticed something.
Desperately trying to turn his head to see what was on him.
What a pity...
That eyeball has already been integrated into the blood.
Not only that he could not see the back of his neck with his eyes, but even if he untied his hands, he could not find any traces.
Standing up, Chen Yulou patted the two senior brothers on the shoulders.
Their reaction was not surprising.
After all, it is something engraved in the blood of Zagrama.
And when he patted them, the two of them came to their senses one after another.
"Brother Dao, don't worry."
"Thousands of sails have been passed, let alone the present?"
Chen Yulou smiled.
Although he didn’t explicitly say the word Muchen Pearl.
But Partridge Whistle understood what he meant immediately, nodded, and then secretly took a few deep breaths to finally suppress the restlessness and uneasiness in his heart.
“Let’s go.”
“The aroma of this food is wafting here, it’s true that you have to fill your stomach and have a good sleep first.”
Stretched his limbs , Chen Yulou smiled and walked towards the camp.
The remaining people looked at each other.
Huamaguai pointed at Huo Jia on the ground and asked, "Shopkeeper, what should I do with this guy?"
Chen Yulou did not look back.
Just raised his hand and made a downward gesture.
He suddenly understood.
After watching the group of people go away, Huamaguai greeted the few Changshengshan guys who were left behind.
"Be smart."
"Don't leave any traces."
Hearing this, the guys couldn't help but grin.
"Don't worry, Hua Bangtou, just leave this little thing to the brothers."
He was still turning his head and trying to look at Hoja at the back of his neck.
Suddenly I noticed something.
When I turned my head, I realized that the previous group of people had already gone away.
Only a few people are left.
Looking at himself with a smile.
His mind sank to the bottom.
Having been a bandit for many years, Hoja was very familiar with this scene.
Subconsciously, he wanted to struggle and opened his mouth to scream, but before he could make a sound, a figure broke into him and stuffed a ball of linen cloth into his mouth.
There was only a low whimper left.
We were also weighed down by the cold wind blowing from the gap between the Shuanghei Mountains in the distance.
See this situation.
Huama hummed and turned around calmly.
After walking a few steps, he heard a slight popping sound.
Just like the butcher Zhang slaughtering pigs in the outer city.
The sound of a sharp knife piercing the neck.
Hearing the noise, Huamaguai couldn't help but shake his head, as if he was singing something dramatic.
You can't hear it until you get closer.
"The human heart is not enough... the snake swallows the elephant." (End of chapter)