White Bone Monkey King

Facing Jin An’s question.

In the eyes of old Sadiq and young Sahav.

They all showed fear subconsciously.

"Then, that night... The Vulture took us to an ancient city called Gervasi to excavate ancient ruins and steal corpses. There must be some tombs or dehydrated mummies buried in the sand under the ruins of these ancient cities, but I don't know. What are they going to do to steal the body..."

As soon as the old Sadiq said this, he was interrupted by the young Sahav: "I know what the vultures and the others want to do to steal the corpse."

"One day while I was on vigil, I overheard their conversation."

"They go around stealing corpses, and it seems to be related to the tattoos on their bodies!"

When old Sadiq heard that his nephew was secretly hiding this from him, he was so frightened that he almost bit his own tongue.

"Why didn't you tell your fourth uncle about such a big thing? When did you overhear this?" Old Sadiq gave a stern lesson.

Of course, to outsiders' ears, it sounds like the rapid bleating of a sheep caught in a door panel.

The bearded men who were walking in front were all confused and turned to look at the person and sheep hanging at the end of the camel team, wondering why the sheep suddenly screamed.

Old Sadiq did not pay attention to the outside world. He also severely lectured his nephew who did not let him worry about it: "Who told you to make your own decisions and act alone? Do you still want to see Apa Ata who is waiting for you at home? Do you still want to see him?" I’ve met your fourth aunt!”

"Fortunately, Vulture, Ayesha and the others don't know that you know so many things, otherwise you would have been dead!"

Little Sadiq muttered aggrievedly: "I'm not afraid that you, Fourth Uncle, might be surprised. I'm old and can't stand being frightened. If the vultures and the others see any clues in the expressions on their faces, both of us will die in the end..."

Boom!

Before little Sahaf could finish speaking, he had already received a hammer blow from Old Sadiq. The sound of their foreheads hitting each other hard made the bearded men turn their heads again, wondering why the sheep suddenly started fighting. ?

The good-looking old Sadiq was so angry that he glared at Sahaf: "There is no need to say more about these irrelevant nonsense."

After listening to Sahafu's words, Jin An's head moved. The person who asked Vulture and the others to steal the body must be the assassin. Yin tattoo masters can use the souls of dead people as paint to tattoo on living people to achieve the effect of raising ghosts.

The purpose of robbing corpses must be to find ghost tattoo materials, which can be used to grow the team and cultivate more masters who go astray.

But by continuing to chat, little Sahafu's knowledge was very limited. Little Sahafu didn't know what a Yin-thorn master was.

The uncle and nephew have never gained the trust of Vulture and the others. They have always been pushed to the margins and are small people who specialize in hard work and dirty work such as odd jobs.

Next, Jin An asked old Sadiq to continue talking.

So old Sadiq continued to talk about what happened that night: "The vultures are doing the business of treasure thieves, and at the same time they are also doing the business of corpse thieves, because the vultures and the others have dug up a lot of valuable things over the years. , many sand bandits, camel travelers, herdsmen, deserters, etc. who could not survive in the desert defected to him. The team expanded rapidly, and at the highest number, there were nearly fifty people..."

"When the Vulture took us to dig in the ancient city of Gervasi that day, there were fifty-three people who went with us. The Vulture got the news from somewhere that there was a tomb of a small country under the ancient city. In the end, we found the tomb smoothly... No, However, that tomb is the tomb of a general from a small country. The tomb is very small and cannot accommodate so many people. The vulture only took half of the people to the tomb, leaving the other half to guard the camp and camels on the ground..."

"...Here, in the small tomb, everything went smoothly. Except for the death of two careless people in the small tomb, we successfully found the body of the owner of the tomb. The harvest was not great that time, and the vulture was in a bad mood. , said he was deceived, and then burned the tomb on fire in a rage..."

"...Next we prepared to leave the tomb. It was daytime when we entered the tomb. When we came out, it was already dark outside. When we came out, we found that the camp outside was too quiet. Even the bonfire was extinguished and no one was responsible for adding dry wood. When we came out, As we approached the camp, we smelled a strong smell of blood... Ha, ha, Aisha was the first one of us to react, and she said it was the bloody smell of human blood!"

Perhaps it was because the experience that night left a huge psychological shadow. Even thinking about it now, old Sadiq couldn't help but chatter in his upper and lower rows of teeth.

"When we arrived at the camp, we found that all the twenty-odd people were dead, and the death was very miserable... They all died in the same way as the recent frightening skinning case in the desert! Just when everyone was frightened and panicked, the vultures, Ayesha and the others took the lead and fled on camels. The rest of the people also rode on camels like crazy and tried their best to escape from the ancient city of Nagwasi. Everyone was very scared...Afraid that the devil would find us again if he stayed nearby... "

Old Sadiq's eyes were full of fear, and he tried to take a deep breath to calm down from the fear.

"Fortunately, the entrance to the tomb we found was in a hidden place buried by rocks and sand. Later, everyone felt lucky after escaping. Fortunately, the entrance was hidden and the devil from the Black Rain Kingdom did not find us!"

Old Sadiq said happily with lingering fear.

According to what he said next, when they were fleeing for their lives in a panic, they had already noticed the group of camels tied outside the sunken ship in the ancient river channel.

They already knew at that time that there were people in the sunken ship.

The vulture is a ruthless person, just as vicious as the vultures that hover over the desert and specialize in eating the carrion of dead people. He is afraid that his identity will be exposed, so he decides to kill people and silence them.

Hence the later phenomenon of using corpses with human faces to buy lives and wealth.

Seeing that the questions in his mind were answered, Jin An asked other questions.

"What's going on with the corpse cricket with a human face?"

"Are the Vultures and the others also looking for clues about the Guchi Kingdom that disappeared thousands of years ago? The human-faced corpse crickets came from the Corpse Hidden Ridge of the Guchi Kingdom. Have the Vultures and the others found the general scope of the Guchi Kingdom?"

But the answer given by Old Sadiq was unexpected.

The cocoon urn containing a corpse with a human face in Ayesha's hand did not come from the Guchi Kingdom, its sacred mountain that transformed into the sea, but came from the tomb of the king of another ancient kingdom that disappeared.

In history, that ancient country seems to have some connection with the Guchi Kingdom. It was a small branch that failed to compete for power and escaped. Then it destroyed a small country with the help of human-faced zombies, occupied the magpie's nest, and established a new country.

This information can be seen on the murals in the tomb of the king.

The king had always wanted to recreate the glory of his ancestors and cultivate more corpse crickets with human faces, but he had failed many times. Only ordinary corpse crickets with slightly stronger poisons were raised in the tomb.

In other words, Vulture and the others didn't even touch the edge of Guchi Country.

On the contrary, when they heard that a corpse of a giant corpse with a human face as big as a camel appeared in the desert, Vulture and the others went out to look for it, but to no avail. I don't know if it was just a rumor.

Seeing that Jin An kept his head down and silent, Old Sadiq said cautiously: "Taoist Master Jin An, you are so concerned about the clues about the Guchi Kingdom. Are you...like those Han people, looking for the legendary Kingdom of the Immortal God?"

"...The Vultures once mentioned it when they were looking for the corpse of the giant human-faced corpse, saying...this human-faced corpse came from the Guchi Kingdom. As the farthest affiliated country of the Kingdom of the Undead, the Kingdom of the Undead is the Kingdom of the Undead. The portal. Finding the location of Guchi Kingdom means opening the divine door to the Kingdom of the Immortal God."

Old Sadiq looked at Jin An's face as he spoke, worried that he would offend Jin An by saying the wrong thing.

Jin An, who was thinking about something, did not object, he just hummed casually and admitted it openly.

He still looked down and thought about things.

Seeing Jin An's admission, there was no unexpected expression on Old Sadiq's face.

As long as the Han people enter the desert of the Western Regions, they are almost all going there for the secret of immortality in the Kingdom of the Immortal God. This kind of thing is common in the desert.

Moreover, Jin An didn't look like he was going into the desert to do business.

"If Taoist Jin'an wants to find the ancient country of Guchi, go southwest deep into the desert, and then wait, wait for December..."

Old Sadiq seemed to have truly surrendered to Jin An. After learning that Jin An was looking for the Kingdom of the Immortal God, he told everything he knew: "The branch that came out of the Guchi Kingdom has always wanted to return to the place of its ancestors. , have always longed to return to the Holy Mountain of Huahai... After the destruction of the Guchi Kingdom, they have never given up their determination to return to their homeland. But the environment in the desert has changed. Sometimes the desert will completely change after a sandstorm... They have always wanted to They returned to their ancestral land, but the desert had changed drastically and they could no longer find their way home, so every December they would go to the Guchi country in their memories and wait for a month or two."

The demise of the Guchi Kingdom was caused by a very large sandstorm, which directly engulfed a country.

Therefore, as Old Sadiq said, it is very possible for a desert terrain to change after a sandstorm.

The terrain in the desert changes frequently every year.

Every year, many people get lost and die of thirst in the desert due to the changing terrain.

This is the second time Jin'an has heard of "December". The first time was mentioned by the leader of Yueqiang Kingdom, and the second time was from old Sadiq. It seems that this thing is most likely to be true. .

At this time, Jin An had already raised his head again from his lowered head. He looked at old Sadiq and young Sahaf and asked: "Do you still remember the location of the ancient ruins where the Vultures got the cocoon urn with the human face corpse? "

Who knows.

The two replied that the tomb had been destroyed by vultures.

There were several cocoon urns in the tomb of the king at that time. Someone accidentally knocked over the cocoon urns and released the corpse crickets with human faces.

Those human-faced zombies are very vicious.

It bites people it sees.

As long as it touches a little bit of skin, human skin will immediately fester and rot into a pool of blood.

The corpse frog with a human face is covered in highly toxic corpse venom, which is more poisonous than aqua regia.

There was chaos at that time. In order to escape, the tomb was set on fire, and they were able to escape.

Hearing this, Jin An frowned.

He realized that he let Vulture's gang die too easily!

The only important clue that could guide the direction of Guchi Country was destroyed by a group of brutal and brutal treasure thieves!

"The information you mentioned is very important. Don't worry, when I find Guchi Country, I will free you again." Jin An made a promise to the two of them.

Old Sadiq and young Sahav were suddenly filled with joy.

But it soon turned into a mixed blessing.

Because from ancient times to the present, no one has ever found the Guchi Kingdom or the Kingdom of the Immortal God. If they never find the Guchi Kingdom, won’t they have to be sheep for the rest of their lives?

Although the grass tastes quite delicious.

But they miss the plump, juicy and golden-roasted whole lamb even more.

Jin An gave them hope. In order to return to their human bodies as soon as possible, the two began to think hard about more details of the tomb murals they saw that day and help Jin An find the location of Guchi Kingdom as soon as possible.

At this time, Jin An asked about another thing: "Can I ask, you hate the Han people so much, what happened to make you hate the Han people so much?"

Old Sadiq and young Sahav were silent at first, and then told the truth truthfully.

In fact, this matter is not complicated.

A year ago, Sahafu rescued a group of Kangding people who almost died of thirst in the desert. However, instead of repaying their kindness, they repaid their kindness with hatred. There was already a lack of water in the desert, and the villagers were miserable every day. They lived a good life, but in the end, the gang stole all the water that was left in the village.

The group stole the village's life-saving water and continued heading deeper into the desert.

That group of people is very vicious.

In order to prevent the villagers from catching up with them, they poisoned the camels in the village and collapsed the village's only well, deliberately leaving the villagers without water so that no one would chase them.

That group of outsiders was rescued by Sahafu, who blamed himself so much that he almost couldn't think about it.

Later, I met the vultures.

The Vultures just needed a guide who was familiar with the nearby terrain. The Vulture saw that Sadiq had seen the world. When he was young, he accompanied the merchants in the Western Regions to run around in the desert and knew many languages. So he agreed to take Sadiq with him as long as Sadiq was willing to stay forever. Pledge loyalty to him and he can solve the water problem for the village.

At that time, Sahab could not speak Han Chinese and had not seen much of the world. Vulture originally did not want to be a burden, but Sahab insisted on going out of the village to look for water with him, and Vulture reluctantly agreed. The reason why I can speak Chinese now is because I learned it later with the team.

In fact, the two knew very well that Vulture and the others were not good people. As early as the moment they followed Vulture and the others out of the village, they knew that their souls had been sold to the devil. In order to find new water for the village, they are willing to sacrifice everything, even their own lives.

Later, when the vulture kept refusing to help the village find water, Sadiq and Sahaf gradually became suspicious. The vulture also noticed that the two had different intentions. The two began to be ostracized in the team and were pushed to the edge. .

If it weren't for the fear that if they escaped, the village would be implicated in the vulture's revenge, the two would have run away unbearably.

While walking and chatting on the road, the camel caravan still moved along the ancient river.

The ancient river channels along this route are either deep or shallow. Sometimes the ancient river channels are interrupted and buried by yellow sand. After walking for several days, the ancient river channels will be seen again.

Big Beard said that this ancient river slowly disappears due to wind and sand erosion every year. It is estimated that in a thousand years, this ancient river that has been dry for thousands of years will completely disappear, and no one will use this trade road anymore.

In the next month, the journey was peaceful, and I didn't encounter any devils or sand bandits. Under the guidance of these experienced Western businessmen, I didn't even encounter quicksand.

But for people who often spend a year and a half crossing the desert, this month of peace is really insignificant in the vast sea of ​​​​sand. There is still a longer journey ahead, and accidents happen all the time.

And the weather at this time.

It has gradually entered mid-November.

The temperature in the desert becomes even lower at night and in the morning.

Three days later, in a small country called Zimo, the caravan and Jin'an began to separate. Jin'an was going to the depths of the desert in the southwest, running counter to the route of Big Beard and Uncle Kremu. The caravan was going to follow The ancient river bed continues all the way north.