Tomb Raider: I, at the beginning, took Fatty Lao Hu as my younger brother

"Old man, have you ever been to this black desert before?"

Lao Hu asked while riding on a camel.

"This is the hell of the Black Desert. Few people have been here. I have only been here once, just for a short while. It was right now, this time!"

Anliman accidentally let the cat out of the bag, but he immediately covered it up.

"If it weren't for your cadre masters and the white camel favored by God, I would never have come here!"

After Anliman finished speaking, he looked at Lao Hu carefully, and felt relieved when he found that Lao Hu had no doubts.

"When I was in the army, I learned a way to get water in the desert. It was to dig down from the roots of the Haloxylon ammodendron. Three to five meters down, you could find wet sand and salt water. Then you could dig a sand pit more than one meter deep and spread a plastic sheet on top. The wet sand below would condense into water droplets when it touched the plastic sheet."

He looked up at the sun above his head and continued, "After simple evaporation by sunlight and filtration, it won't take long to get a small amount of fresh water. Although it's a small amount, it can save lives. I believe you know how to do this!"

"Yes!" Anliman didn't expect that Lao Hu knew so much.

"But if we go further, there will be no more Haloxylon ammodendron, nothing at all!"

An Liman's words made Lao Hu and Zhou Xun beside him understand how dangerous the deep desert is!

The Black Desert is sparsely populated, and even the plants in the desert cannot survive here. It is like a death zone!

Everyone continued to move forward against the wind.

The further we went, the more we discovered that there was yellow sand everywhere, and the some plants that we could see before were now becoming less and less.

The people who have consumed a lot of water in the past few days have become more and more depressed and silent!

After walking for most of the day.

The wind was getting stronger.

Zhou Xun could only let everyone stop and rest next to a sand dune.

Arrange the young people to start building a barrier with yellow sand.

"This wind has been blowing all day. When will it stop?"

The fat man shouted as he dug sand to build a barrier.

"That's what the windy season is like."

As Anliman was collecting firewood, he said, "The scary thing about the Black Desert is not the quicksand that can trap people, nor the ants that eat everything to pieces, nor the black sandstorms."

"Legend has it that deep in the desert, there is a dreamland. When people enter, they will see lakes, rivers, beautiful women and mythical beasts. But they cannot reach there until they die of thirst and exhaustion, because the place is full of traps set by the devil to lure people to die there."

"He was talking about mirages in the desert. It's really easy for people with dehydration to be confused!" Shirley Yang explained.

Zhou Xun brought so much water and some wine in the system space, and he didn't take them out along the way. Wasn't it prepared for this moment?

But we are not planning to take it out now, because it is not the most dangerous time yet and everyone still has some water.

At this time, Ye Yixin ran to Shirley Yang and gently pulled her.

"Let's go do something behind the sand dunes!" said Shirley Yang.

"Wait, take this!"

Zhou Xun handed over a whistle used by the team leader.

Shirley Yang took the whistle and walked towards the distant sand dunes with Ye Yixin.

Just after handing over the whistle, Zhou Xun saw the fat man running to Anliman to ask for some goat milk wine.

I was speechless for a moment. You are almost out of water, and you still expect others to share your goat milk wine...

"Fat!"

After calling out to Fatty, Zhou Xun threw the wine jug over.

The fat man took the wine jug, took a sip of the wine and immediately felt refreshed, laughing.

"Don't be so happy, and don't share it with everyone!" Zhou Xun said.

The fat man took another sip and then took the wine jug and distributed some to everyone.

"Help!"

"Here comes someone!"

A few people had just finished drinking and were savoring the taste.

Suddenly, the shouts of Shirley Yang and Ye Yixin were heard from afar!

"Come on!"

Zhou Xun and his men hurried over.

"Someone come quickly!"

"Help!"

Here, Shirley Yang held onto the yellow sand in the trap tightly and kept shouting at Ye Yixin.

And Ye Yixin had already half of his body sunk in.

Zhou Xun and his men ran over to take a look and found that they were obviously stuck in quicksand.

Although Zhou Xun knew that this was not quicksand, he still hurried over to help Shirley Yang and pull Ye Yixin up.

"Okay, don't be afraid, this is not quicksand!"

Zhou Xun said as he looked at the two men who looked like they had escaped death.

"If this is quicksand, you two would have been swallowed by it now. There must be something under the yellow sand!"

Zhou Xun explained.

"Indeed, if it was quicksand, it would be impossible for Miss Yang to hold Xiaoye for so long by herself, and Xiaoye would have stayed there without continuing to sink!" Old Hu thought for a while and said.

"That's right. If it really is quicksand, you won't be able to stay nearby!" Anliman said.

After thinking about it carefully, Shirley Yang nodded and said, "Yes, it seems to be true from what you said. Just now, when Xiaoye was halfway in, he stopped moving!"

Xiao Ye thought about it and nodded while sobbing, indicating that it was true.

Chapter 33: Entering the Wei and Jin Stone Tomb

"Stopped?" Lao Hu asked in confusion.

"So I said there must be something or space under the yellow sand, otherwise it wouldn't sink!" Zhou Xun said.

"Yes, yes, I seemed to have stepped on a stone just now, and then it collapsed, and I kept sinking down, sinking down..."

Xiao Ye feels much better now that she recalls it, but her voice still sounds a bit tearful!

"Are you sure it's a stone?" asked Lao Hu.

"How can there be rocks under the desert? Is there really space underneath?"

Shirley Yang couldn't help but think along Zhou Xun's lines.

"If my guess is correct, under the quicksand just now there is either a house or a palace, or an ancient tomb!" Zhou Xun continued.

Zhou Xun knew that there was indeed a stone tomb underneath, and it had just been robbed.

Now I don’t know whether this kind of ancient tomb that has been robbed can still increase the system space.

"Don't just stand there, go and take a look!" Lao Hu reminded.

Everyone came back to their senses and quickly went to the yellow sand with their equipment and started digging.

Sure enough, not long after digging, a "ding!" sound was heard.

This is the sound of the engineer shovel and the stone colliding!

"Old Hu, did you dig it up?" Shirley Yang asked, bending over.

"Dig it!"

After saying that, he took out a piece of hard gravel!

“I found it here too!”

After the fat man finished speaking, he also took out a piece of gravel similar to the one in Lao Hu's hand!

Old Hu looked at the stone in his hand carefully, and after weighing it, he said, "This was blown up by explosives!"

"Explosives?"

"Explosives?"

Professor Chen and the fat man were puzzled.

Zhou Xun took the stone from Lao Hu and looked at it, saying, "This stone is very hard. If we use tools to chisel it, it will probably take a long time!"

Shirley Yang and Professor Chen took a look and found that indeed, there were no traces of tools on it.

"Here, shovel!"

"Give!"

Lao Hu took a shovel and started digging.

"Out!"

"I'm coming out here too!"

Lao Hu and Fatty followed up.

Professor Hao then handed a brush to Lao Hu.

Lao Hu took it and began to brush away the dust on the stone. Then, a large piece of stone appeared.

Old Hu looked at the stones that had been brushed out and said with 100% certainty: "This was definitely blown up by explosives, and it was definitely done by an expert. The explosive force of the explosion was outward, so all the gravel is outside, and there won't be any damage inside. It's a precise small directional blast, and..."

Lao Hu stopped and looked carefully at the gaps in the stones.

"And what?" Shirley Yang asked.

"Moreover, this is definitely not ordinary explosives, it is military explosives."

After saying this, Lao Hu and the fat man continued to dig down!

"Professor Chen, is it really possible that there is a stone tomb inside?" Shirley Yang asked.

"If there really is a tomb, with a hole this big, it must have been robbed!"

Professor Chen said pessimistically.

"Old Hu, you and Fatty go take a rest first. Who will continue digging with me?"

Zhou Xun said as he looked at the two people who were panting.

"I'll do it!" Chu Jian signed up.

Zhou Xun and Chu Jian dug for another ten minutes.

Only then was a hole dug out that led directly to the tomb below.

"It's clear, I'll go down first!" Zhou Xun shouted.

After saying that, he jumped down first.

"It's okay, come down!"

When everyone heard this, they came down one by one.

After coming down, what caught my eye were the coffins opened one by one in the main tomb chamber!

Seeing that the tomb was empty except for the coffin, it was indeed stolen.

Professor Chen felt very distressed about this.

"Look, Lao Hu!"

The fat man pointed the flashlight at a backpack, which was open, and at a glance he could see a bag of explosives.

Lao Hu went over and took out a piece of explosives from his bag. He recognized it at a glance and said, "Su, it's a joint product. I played with it for two days when I was in the army."

"Are these tomb robbers from the Su and Lian families?" Shirley Yang asked Lao Hu.

Old Hu couldn't help but nodded, indicating that it was correct.

Zhou Xun knew that these people were the same ones that Anliman had brought into the desert before.

It was because of these people that Anliman was locked up in the police station.