Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 99
Early the next morning, we left Dunhuang in three off-road vehicles and drove towards Qilian Mountain.

The name of the Qilian Mountains originated from the ancient Xiongnu. In the language of the ancient Huns, "Qilian" means "heaven", so Qilian Mountain was named "Tianshan".Because it is located on the south side of the Hexi Corridor, it is also known as Nanshan.Located on the border between the northeast of Qinghai Province and the west of Gansu Province, it is one of the main mountain ranges in China.

After leaving Dunhuang City, the convoy headed west all the way to Qilian Mountain.

As far as the eyes can see, there are billowing yellow sands, and the sky is full of yellow, which is very depressing.

The convoy drove very fast, and rarely got out of the car to take a break, except for stopping for a short break during lunch. They drove almost from dawn to dusk, and arrived at the foot of Qilian Mountain.

Overlooking the Qilian Mountains, you can see the blue-gray mountain range, like a crouching dragon, winding and circling at the junction of heaven and earth.Layers of mountains roll towards the sky like waves.The setting sun slanted on the top of the mountain, casting a huge mountain shadow.The evening wind blows across the endless green grassland, and occasionally groups of unnamed national protected animals can be seen.The green hills are lingering, the grass is flying, everything seems natural and peaceful.

Wan Juncheng ordered the convoy to stop and set up camp beside a puddle, preparing to rest overnight and enter the mountain tomorrow morning.

The water depression here is clear and bright, pure and natural, without any pollution.There are a lot of fish with shiny scales in the water swale. The fish are not big, each about the size of a palm, so they are easy to catch.As long as you have quick eyes and hands, you can catch two of them with your hands.

Everyone divides the work and cooperates, some dig pits and build stoves, some pick up hay, and some fish in puddles.We only ate dry food at noon, and everyone wanted a change for dinner.Survival in the wild is like this. When there are other foods, they will never eat the dry food that comes with them. After all, the dry food is rough and unpalatable, and the nutritional indicators cannot be met.Eating more fruits, vegetables and meat can also maintain sufficient nutrition and promote energy recovery.

Soon, a bonfire was lit.

After we disemboweled and cleaned the fresh fish, we skewered them on dead branches and grilled them over the fire.

The night breeze is gentle, green smoke is curling up, and after a while, the smell of meat comes out, and big and shiny oil droplets drip down, making people gulp down their mouths.

When the roasting time was about the same, someone took out a few bags of convenient seasoning packets from the back of the car and sprinkled them directly on top of the grilled fish. The smell of spicy pepper mixed with the smell of fish meat made my mouth water.

Wan Juncheng is also very good at enjoying this guy, there is even canned beer in the trunk.

In this wild grassland, drinking a sip of beer and eating a big mouthful of delicious grilled fish is really an indescribable enjoyment.

The setting sun gradually sank, and the fiery red sunset glow danced on the top of the mountains, gorgeous and youthful.

Night shrouded the land, and the Qilian Mountains were dark.

There is a big temperature difference between day and night here, and it is unbearable to wear a single coat outside at night. Three camping tents were set up next to the fire.

Before going to bed, Wan Juncheng called everyone over and took out a small flashlight from his backpack.When I was wondering what he was going to do, he had already unscrewed the back cover of the flashlight, stretched out two fingers, took out a roll of tissue paper from inside, and spread it out in front of him.

The edges of the thin paper were irregular, as if it had been torn directly, with many rough edges.And the paper is very strange, light yellow, shiny, it doesn't look like paper, more like a translucent plastic film.Just as I was wondering what kind of material this piece of paper was made of, Gu Meidi cursed softly beside me: "Damn! This is a piece of human skin!"

Human skin? !
Hearing what Gu Meidi said, I suddenly shivered.I said why the material of that piece of paper looks weird, it turned out to be a piece of human skin, it's so fucking weird, and this human skin should be the skin on the back, or it was just torn off, Just thinking about it feels cold in the neck.

I stood on tiptoe and looked inside, and found that the human skin was drawn with criss-cross lines, which looked like a map.

I have seen a lot of maps, but this is the first time I have seen a map painted on human skin. I was shocked and curious, so I got closer and wanted to take a closer look.

This human skin map should be quite old, the cortex has turned yellow, and there are black mold spots in some places.When the light fell on the map, you could still see the pores on the human skin, and goose bumps all over your body.

I looked at it for a while, and found that it was a Feng Shui topographic map, most of which showed the direction of the mountains.Judging from the shape of the mountains, it is very similar to the Qilian Mountains where we are.

I saw nine thick lines of mountains on the map, they intersected each other, like nine vigorous black dragons.

Wan Juncheng handed the human skin map to Xu Bo: "Come and see!"

Xu Bo held the map and looked at it for a while, then pondered: "This is the famous Kowloon turnaround in Feng Shui!"

Although I recognize this Feng Shui bureau, after all, I haven't studied "Evil Soldiers" for a long time, and I can't immediately recall the names of many Feng Shui bureaus.Hearing what Xu Bo said, I thought about it carefully, and there is no doubt that this is indeed a Kowloon roundabout.

"Oh?" Wan Juncheng raised his eyebrows: "Let's hear it!"

Xu Bo was also unambiguous, and he opened his mouth and said: "The law of Feng Shui is to get water first, and then to hide wind. When the air is strong, it will flow, while the rest will stop. Although it is scattered but deep, it will still gather. The original bone, entrusting the snake to the east and west, or north and south, it seems to be entrusted to restore itself, and the circle repeats, if it is squatting, it will be a hou, if it is embraced, it will be there. If it goes forward, if it stops, it goes deep, accumulates and stops, gathers and rushes, yang and yin work together , the soil is thick and the water is deep, the grass is lush and the forest is lush, it is as expensive as a thousand times, rich as ten thousand gold, and it is the top land!"

I secretly lamented Xu Bo's skill in Fengshui. I was studying the Fengshui scrolls in "Evil Soldiers" before, and I can still understand Xu Bo's words. I feel that what he said is very reasonable. Also very brilliant.

"Get it! Got it! Got it!" Wan Juncheng waved his hand: "Don't talk so much vernacular, it makes my head feel dizzy, just keep it simple!"

Xu Bo said solemnly: "Simply put, the Jiuzhuan Huilong Bureau is a treasure of geomantic omen!"

"It's not about this!" Wan Juncheng said, "I want you to find me the location of the Dragon Palace!"

The Dragon Palace mentioned by Wan Juncheng is naturally not the place where the Dragon God lives. In Jianghu jargon, the Dragon Palace represents the mausoleum.

I was slightly taken aback, and thought to myself: "Wan Juncheng went to Qilian Mountain to find the tomb after spending so much time? Whose tomb is he looking for? Is there any connection between this tomb and the Xixia Dynasty? "

"Okay! But it will take some time!" Xu Bo took out a compass from his backpack while talking.

When he took out the compass, my eyes were immediately firmly attracted.

That compass has at least carried thousands of years. The compass is bronze, and the surface has been polished by the years to be very smooth. It is so smooth that it can almost reflect the silhouette of a person.The shape of the compass is very strange, a little bigger than the palm of an adult, and it is a rare octagon, with the names of gossip carved on each of the eight corners.In the center of the compass is a Taiji disk, surrounded by densely carved tadpole-shaped runes, and various ancient scripts that I don't recognize.

"Heaven and Earth Cosmic Pan!" Gu Meidi said softly.

Xu Bo was slightly startled, looked up at Gu Meidi, and then quickly turned his gaze back to the compass.

I saw him slowly turning the heaven and earth universe disk with his left hand, and counting with the five fingers of his right hand. He was chanting something, but it was like an egg in his mouth, and it was vague, and he didn't know what he was chanting.

Gradually, the heaven and earth universe disc in front of him glowed with a faint light, and as the universe disc continued to rotate, the dim light gradually turned into a circle of light, constantly flying around the universe disc, which looked particularly strange and eye-catching.What's even more strange is that the Tai Chi disk in the center of the compass is also glowing, like a virtual 3D illusion, floating and sinking in the aperture.

Just when we were dumbfounded, Xu Bo suddenly turned his palm over and pressed the rotating heaven, earth and universe disk with his palm, and let out a long breath, looking a little tired.At this time, I realized that in a short period of time, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, but the temperature outside was so low that we were all too cold.

"How is it?" Wan Juncheng looked at Xu Bo with piercing eyes.

Xu Bo stretched out two fingers, moving back and forth on the human skin map.

After about half a minute, his fingertips rested on the highest mountain of the ninth black mountain range: "Dragon Palace is on the head of the ninth flying dragon!"

"Okay! Awesome!" Wan Juncheng laughed, his eyes gleamed with joy, he laughed and put the human skin map in his arms, and waved to us: "You are also tired, go back and rest!"

We went back to our respective tents, and there were only me, Gu Meidi, Professor Ye and Liu Hanhao in our tent.Wan Juncheng didn't send anyone to guard us either, he knew that our body was poisoned with the sky flying Gu, even if we were told to run, we wouldn't run now, so we could only obediently follow him and be his slaves.

However, this is only temporary.

Definitely temporary!

We must have a chance to kill that bastard Wan Juncheng!
This is what Professor Ye said.

Maybe it was because they were too tired after a long day's journey. Professor Ye and Liu Hanhao fell asleep after laying down.

As soon as I closed my eyes, I thought of the bloody severed finger, and my heart hurt like being pricked by a needle.

That is my dearest grandpa!

I opened my eyes, panting heavily in the dark, clenched my fists involuntarily, everything was silent, I could hear the crackling of my knuckles.

"You miss grandpa again?" Gu Meidi didn't fall asleep either, she could always see through my thoughts at the first moment.

"Yeah!" I nodded, and told her the truth: "When I think about that severed finger... I wish I could kill that bastard Wan Juncheng with my own hands... He actually used such cruel methods to treat grandpa..."

"Tuoba Gu, don't be impulsive, you have to learn to restrain your emotions!" Gu Meidi comforted me.

"I know! It's just...it's just that I'm really worried about grandpa, afraid that grandpa will be tortured by those bastards at home!" I sighed, with tears flickering in the corners of my eyes.

"Auspicious people have their own signs of heaven. Grandpa will be fine. Go to sleep! There is still a long way to go, and the most important thing is to maintain a good energy! Good night!"

"good night!"

(End of this chapter)