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Chapter 209: Underground Abyss
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into the night.

Wu Wen did not choose to lie in bed to rest
Instead, he still stood in front of the window, quietly looking at the night view outside.

Although most people in the city have fallen asleep, the prosperity of the daytime is no longer there.

But in Wu Wen's eyes, the city at night had a different kind of lively scene.

This is so because under the cover of darkness, many people began to act quietly.

Some of them were ordinary thieves, trying to steal the property of passing merchants; some were spies sent by various forces, secretly gathering information in this bustling city...

Among these people, one group particularly caught Wu Wen's attention.

Their target was the ruins of Loulan in the center of the city.

"This place really does hide a secret!" Wu Wen thought to himself.

What the mysterious fortune teller said during the day made him certain that this city built on the ruins of Loulan must be hiding some unknown secret, and this secret might be related to the disappeared ancient kingdom of Loulan.

Wu Wen jumped lightly and flew out of the window nimbly.

Under the cover of moonlight, he shuttled through the shadows between the houses and quickly approached the ruins of Loulan in the center of the city.

Looking at the lake in front of us, the ruins of Loulan are located about sixty meters in front of the lake.

Wu Wen leaped forward and jumped high.

The body draws a graceful arc in the air.

Just when it was about to fall from the sky.

Wu Wen suddenly spread his arms, and he began to fly in the air as if he had grown a pair of wings.

This is not because Wu Wenxue has learned any flying ability.

Instead, he used a trick he developed based on his deep understanding of aerodynamics.

By adjusting the body's posture, angle and aura, the air flow rate under the body can be relatively accelerated.

According to Bernoulli's principle, the pressure is low where the flow rate is fast, thus forming a pressure difference between the upper and lower parts, generating an upward lift.

Although this lift was not enough to allow him to fly freely in the air, it was enough to allow him to glide during the descent and glide a long distance like a bird.

Wu Wen glided to the top of the ruins, deftly turned his body and rolled in the air to slow down his descent, then landed steadily right above the ruined palace.

Looking around, he saw a hole in the roof beside him.

He took a step forward and fell into it instantly.

In this way, Wu Wen entered the palace quietly.

Standing in a long corridor.

Wu Wen took a few steps forward and suddenly stopped. He flashed and hid in the corner of the wall.

Not long after, he saw three people walking towards him, talking in low voices.

"Alas, I have been here for so many days. What exactly does the king want us to look for?" One of the young boys complained.

"You've only been here for a few days and you're already complaining? I've been here for almost half a year." Another person said with a smile.

At this time, the third older person said mysteriously: "I came earlier than the two of you. I actually know a little about the reason."

"Tell us quickly!" Upon hearing this, the other two immediately asked curiously.

"Hehe!" The man smiled slightly, then lowered his voice and said, "The king asked us to come here to find the secret treasure of Loulan."

Hearing the word "secret treasure", the other two people showed even more curiosity on their faces.

Wu Wen, who was hiding in the dark, couldn't help but become curious. What exactly was the Loulan secret treasure he was talking about?
"Have you two heard of the legend about Loulan?" the elder continued to ask.

The two shook their heads.

"Loulan is different from other countries, the king of this country is the queen.

The Queen of Loulan is a legendary figure.

The reason why she was able to become the Queen of Loulan was because she possessed a secret treasure."

“This secret treasure can fulfill any wish of a person, even wishes such as immortality and resurrection.

Therefore, she became the Queen of Loulan with this secret treasure!"

"However, this secret treasure is too powerful, so the heavens sent down a divine punishment and made Loulan disappear overnight."

After listening to this legendary story, the two of them showed an expression of sudden enlightenment on their faces, and thought to themselves: No wonder the king asked them to come here, it turns out that they are looking for the secret treasure of the Queen of Loulan in the story.

"The king is looking for a great treasure that can fulfill any wish, it must be for the queen and the prince..." one of them guessed.

The three of them walked away while talking.

After they walked away, Wu Wen's figure emerged from the darkness.

He whispered to himself: "A secret treasure that can make wishes come true..."

Their conversation reminded Wu Wen of something about the Kingdom of Yanqi.

The King of Yanqi was a rare wise ruler. Under his rule, the Yanqi Kingdom was well organized and increasingly prosperous.

But the King of Yanqi himself had a huge "flaw": he was too devoted.

As a king, King Yanqi loved only the queen all his life and there were no other women in his harem.

If this happened to an ordinary person, it wouldn't be a big deal.

But for a king, it is a major event for the country.

Because loving only one person means that this king will not have many offspring.

The Queen of Yanqi had not given birth to a child for the King of Yanqi in the early years, which caused a lot of discussion among the people.

It was not until later that she gave birth to a son, a prince, when she was old.

But as fate would have it, the queen passed away right after giving birth to the child. The King of Yanqi was deeply distressed by this.

Therefore, the King of Yanqi doted on his only son.

And this prince lived up to expectations and was very outstanding.

But as the saying goes, when it rains, it pours; a hemp rope breaks at the thinnest point; and misfortunes always strike down the unfortunate.

The prince suddenly contracted a strange disease, and although King Yanqi tried every possible means to save him, the prince still died.

In this way, the Yanqi Kingdom wanted to rebuild Loulan not only to open up trade routes.

The more important purpose is to find the secret treasure of the legendary Queen of Loulan in order to realize the wish of resurrecting the queen and the prince.

Wu Wen didn't believe a word of the secret treasure in this story that could fulfill any wish, even bring the dead back to life.

But this exaggerated statement can indirectly prove one thing, that is, this secret treasure is absolutely extraordinary. Wu Wen looked down at the palace of Loulan ruins.

After such a long time, this place must have been turned upside down by the Yanqi people.

If there was any secret, it would have been found.

Therefore, if the secret treasure of Loulan really exists, it must not be here.

Wu Wen turned and left the palace and came to the lake outside.

In his calculations yesterday, the location of this lake was very special.

So, if there really is a secret, it is probably under the water.

Thinking of this, Wu Wen jumped directly, like a fish into water, without splashing a wave, and his body slid smoothly into the water.

Staring at the dark lake water below, I kept diving down.

It was not until he had descended twenty or thirty meters that a strange scene suddenly appeared in front of Wu Wen's eyes.

A "mirror" actually appeared under the lake.

Wu Wen kicked his feet slightly, and suddenly jumped out and came to the front of this "mirror".

After careful observation, he found that it was not a real mirror, but another water surface.

The reason for this phenomenon is that the salt content of the upper and lower water layers is different, which causes this refraction phenomenon.

Wu Wen kicked again and got himself inside.

Then he saw another underwater scene.

The water here is incredibly clear, and there is no sign of any underwater life.

Continue downstream for about ten meters.

Wu Wen discovered that the riverbed here was not filled with silt as he had imagined, but was filled with salt that had crystallized into plates and was laid flat underneath like floor tiles.

It's over!
But found nothing.

Wu Wen couldn't help feeling confused, wondering if he had guessed wrong.

However, at this moment, he suddenly became keenly aware that the water in the water was slowly flowing in one direction.

This is a lake, and at the bottom of the lake, the water does not remain static, but flows in one direction, which means there is an outlet in that direction.

Wu Wen immediately walked towards the direction of the water flow, and after about three hundred meters, he came to a rock wall.

He touched the rocks on the rock wall with his hand and found that the stones here were not ordinary stones, but a kind of silicate mineral.

Again, feel the direction the water is flowing.

He swam toward the right, along the rock wall.

Soon after, we saw a cave with a diameter of half a person's width. The water from the bottom of the lake flowed into here.

Wu Wen first explored it, and after making sure there was no problem, he swam in sideways.

He could feel himself swimming upstream.

After passing through a dark passage.

Suddenly surfaced.

Wu Wen raised his head and looked upwards, and found that it was actually a wide cave.

When he walked ashore, he shook his body and all the water on his body fell off.

"Another underground space. Looks like we've come to the right place!"

Go in the direction of the water flow.

On the way forward, Wu Wen suddenly discovered that there were some murals carved on the surrounding rock walls.

If it weren't for his keen perception, it would have been difficult to find these murals.

Wu Wen carefully observed these uneven murals that looked like natural rock formations, and after piecing them together he discovered that it was actually a map.

The area marked on the map is the entire Western Region.

The geographical environment of the Western Regions where countries such as Gaochang, Loulan and Yanqi were located is actually a huge basin, which is the Tarim Basin that Wu Wen is familiar with.

The basin is surrounded by the Tianshan Mountains to the north, the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Plateau to the west, and only a depression to the east.

From a geographical perspective, the basin where the Western Regions are located has no shortage of water at all.

Because on the mountains surrounding it on three sides, the melted snow over the years has formed water veins that all converge towards the center of the basin.

In other words, there is actually a huge water network in this basin.

The place where these water veins converge is the depression in the east.

The Youze where Wu Wen is now, also known as Lop Nur, is the exact center of this depression, which is why a lake as vast as the sea has been formed.

"The water veins of the Western Regions converge at Youze, and the water veins of Youze flow through Loulan."

"Doesn't this mean that Loulan's location is a water eye?"

Wu Wen continued to move forward.

Not long after, a huge abyss appeared in front of him.

Looking at the cliff in front of him, it was pitch black and bottomless. The feeling of darkness and depth made Wu Wen involuntarily take a step back.

He looked up and found that there were many streams converging here in front of the abyss, as if this was their end point.

However, what surprised Wu Wen was that when these waters flowed into the abyss, they did not fall directly down.

Instead, it actually floated up, then slowly moved downwards while slowly converging towards the middle, finally forming a huge whirlpool and sinking into the abyss.

Looking at the strange scene in front of him, Wu Wen reached out and grabbed a rock from the rock wall behind him, then threw it into the abyss in front of him.

Then, it was seen that the thrown rock did not fall directly into the abyss, but there seemed to be an invisible buoyancy that gently lifted it up from below, making it fall very slowly and converge towards the center in the form of a vortex curve.

After this series of tests, Wu Wen determined that there was a huge energy field in the abyss before him.

But what surprised him was.

In his perception, there was no energy in the abyss, as if it were nothingness.

There is only one explanation for this situation.

That is, the energy here is something Wu Wen cannot perceive, so he cannot detect the energy field here.

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(End of this chapter)