Chapter 14 - The Purple Mist

　　The black palace towering in the distance appeared extraordinarily eerie under the night, I didn't want to sleep in there at night, so we all unanimously decided to sleep in an adobe room closer to the city gates. If anything untoward really happened, we could also quickly exit the ancient city! 　　This should be a civilian's house, the furnishings in the house were extremely simple, and there were a few pieces of roughly made pottery inside. However, Luo Hai and Liu Ziping's eyes were glowing as they looked at them, they seemed to be old things with some years of age. 　　There was an oil lamp in the room that had dried up long ago, and when I saw it, I was so playful that I took out my lighter and lit it up. I thought this thing after so many years of weathering, also burned a little will go out, but I did not expect it has been burning, and the oil lamp seems to have long been solidified in the lamp oil slowly melted when it met the heat. But the color of the fire is blue, I really do not know what this lamp oil is made. 　　Uncle Li also seems to be very interested in this lamp oil, froze in the side of my observation for half a day. 　　"Uncle Li, what do you think this lamp oil is made of?" I asked him curiously. 　　Uncle Li used his finger to dip a little bit in the oil lamp and put it in front of his nose to sniff lightly, then frowned and said, "It's shark oil! It's just that this stuff should have been very expensive in ancient times, and was usually used as a long-lasting lamp in the tombs of dignitaries, so why would it appear in such a commoner's home?" 　　As soon as Liu Zi Ping heard Uncle Li say that this was shark oil, he hurriedly came to look at it as well. 　　"It's really shark oil! But this thing as a lamp is not able to keep the light on for a long time, because the seals of the big tombs are usually very good, so the oxygen inside is limited, and after lighting the wick it will definitely burn the oxygen. Once the oxygen is used up, the light will naturally go out. I am also considered to have seen a lot, but I really haven't seen any tomb where the long-lighting lamps are burning, most of them are extinguished after exhausting the oxygen, and the shark oil inside is just like what's in this oil lamp, presenting a semi-solidified state." 　　I heard him finish and thought to myself, Liu Ziping this guy is really a professional grave robber, it seems that everyone here has their own specialty. 　　Thinking of this I deliberately asked Liu Ziping, "Brother Liu, how many years of history do you think this place must have?" 　　Liu Ziping took a look at the surroundings, then said quietly, "At least it must have a history of more than two thousand years, look at the pottery in this house, the style is very much like something from the Han Dynasty, but it is different. In ancient times, many small countries existed here, such as Loulan, Ruoqiang. But I can't really tell exactly what ancient country's ruins this place is, but one thing is for sure, this place hasn't been discovered before, otherwise I would have definitely heard of this place." 　　I knew that Liu Zi Ping was very vocal in this direction, what he said should not be far from the truth, I just didn't know if we could be the first lucky ones to claim to the public that we had discovered this site. In fact, my heart has been thinking of Uncle Li said before the "black city", I'm afraid that this place should not be no one has been here before, only those who came here are not alive out of the desert just ...... 　　Suddenly a burst of urine attack, I look at the outside of the darkness, the heart is a little afraid. So I pushed the side of the Ding Yi, said with a smile, "Oh ...... accompany me to go outside to facilitate it." 　　Ding Yi did not say, he got up from the backpack took out a wolf-eye flashlight, and then waved his hand to me to signal me to follow him. After coming outside to solve my internal emergency, I didn't want to stay outside for a minute, but as soon as I turned around, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. 　　After observing for a while, I realized why there was not a single breeze in this ancient city? Even if it is because of the buildings in the ancient city blocking the wind, but yesterday after midnight wind I can still remember, which can not feel a trace of wind it? 　　Thought of here I looked around, who knows this look immediately scared almost pee again. Only to see this time the city's households are lit up a blue light! As if the residents of this place back home again general ...... 　　At the time I was puzzled, Ding Yi beside me suddenly pulled me back sharply. 　　"Slowly ...... why are you walking so fast?" My body lost the flat horizontal almost did not be pulled down by him on the ground, but fortunately Ding Yi's strength is very great, a hand will be lifted me up and then quickly back to go. 　　Just when he will pull me to go back, I did not actually find the foot of some strange. Take a closer look, the ground is actually a layer of thin as a cicada's wings of the fog, and the most strange thing is that these fog is actually lavender! 　　After returning to the house, Ding Yi immediately turned around and plugged the door bolt. 　　Uncle Lai saw the two of us looking nervous, so he asked, "What's wrong with you guys? Did you see that gray back again?" 　　I shook my head and told everyone about what we had just seen, and they all immediately looked horrified as well. Uncle Lai looked out through the window and was also half speechless with shock. Only to see the ground of the city floating a layer of hidden purple mist, looks unusually strange. 　　I really don't know what kind of place this is, why I could feel a strong sadness before I even entered the city, but I couldn't feel anything after I came in! 　　And that mysterious back, if I'm not mistaken, that's exactly the person we're looking for. But he couldn't have lived until now anyway! And that pocket watch of his already has his remnant soul attached to it, so that means he's dead! But why did he appear in this ancient city where he wasn't supposed to be? 　　There were too many questions that I couldn't figure out right now, plus the purple mist outside and this one shark oil lamp that was suddenly lit up, making this whole ancient city look even more terrifying and appalling. 　　I thought of this should not appear in the ordinary people with the shark lamp, suddenly a terrible idea in the heart from the emergence of ...... difficult not this whole ancient city is a large tomb? 　　As soon as I told everyone what I thought, Uncle Lai was the first to shake his head and said, "There's no such ancient tomb! Hai Zi, have you and Zi Ping ever seen one?" 　　Both of them also shook their heads and said, "This place is indeed weird, but it's definitely not an ancient tomb. From the architectural pattern here and the utensils in the house, they should all be objects from two thousand years ago, but from the degree of newness it doesn't look like it has such a long history. The sandstorms here are always raging, and some ancient city ruins with a history of thousands of years should have been seen by everyone, and have long been a piece of debris, where can it be preserved so intact as it is here now?" 　　"This wouldn't be some kind of movie city, right?" Ye Zhiqiu said weakly. 　　I shook my head at that and said, "That's even more impossible, how could anyone build a movie city in such a desolate place! Even if there is one, there must be staff here to guard it, right? And movie cities nowadays are all about acreage, who could be stupid enough to run to such a desolate and remote place to take up land?"