"Even a lake full of water may not be like this."

Yang Wanli also immediately took over the conversation, pointing to a small patch of tamarisk forest not far away whose trunks were completely submerged in the lake, and said, "Young Master, you see, tamarisk is a drought-tolerant and salt-tolerant tree. If it is planted artificially,

It is absolutely impossible to plant it in the water, and if it grows naturally, it is even more impossible to grow into the water. Now the red willow forest is half submerged by the lake. I believe that the lake has been flooded recently. If it is said that the lake is missing,

If you don’t use water, you won’t be able to win people’s trust.”

Wu Liang glanced in the direction pointed by Yang Wanli.

He knew that tamarisk was not only drought and salt tolerant, but also blisters, but being able to withstand blisters was one thing. It did not mean that tamarisk was an aquatic plant and could be planted and grown directly in the lake.

So Wu Liang frowned slightly and said: "Yang Wanli is right. There is no reason for red willows to grow into the lake. It's not like the lake is short of water, but more like the water has risen. However, King Shanshan has no reason to do this.

It's necessary to tell lies to us, and I really can't think of any benefit to him."

"What the young master is saying is that King Shanshan really doesn't need to deceive us about such a trivial matter, not to mention that his life is still in the hands of the young master."

Yu Ji nodded and expressed his opinion, "In this way, if there is not a problem with King Shanshan's intelligence, it may be that Youze has encountered special circumstances recently, such as a sudden heavy rain upstream, iceberg snow

The melting of water has intensified, etc., so that more water has been injected into it recently, and the water level has changed again."

Wu Liang shook his head slightly and analyzed attentively: "If the water level of such a large lake rises, the amount of water injected must be very considerable. If such a thing really happens, the Kongque River outside Janni City is the only upstream river in Youze.

, the river water will definitely surge, King Shanshan cannot be unaware of it, after all, standing on the watchtower in Jani City, he can already monitor the situation of Kongque River at any time."

At this time, Zhuge Liang scratched the back of his head and asked thoughtfully: "Then there is no need for King Shanshan to make up lies to us. The rising water level in Youze may have nothing to do with the Kongque River upstream. What does Brother Youcai mean?"

Could it be that...the situation before us is an unknown change in Youze himself?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly looked surprised and suspicious.

They couldn't help but think of Mingze, which had just escaped death not long ago. The water level of that lake could rise or fall without the need for water injection, or even disappear and turn into a river. Moreover, the whole process could be completed in a very short time.

Completed within a period of time.

But there is a reason for that.

It takes someone to use the Hu Zhuo family's method of driving away the monsters and put in a special magic weapon, so that the landform at the bottom of the lake changes like a sea of ​​change, and then a series of changes will occur.

No one can say clearly what the principle is, but that is what is really happening before our eyes.

so……

Is it possible that there is something weird about this Youze?

If this is the case, they will probably have to stay as far away from lakes as possible when they come to the Western Regions in the future. They passed through three lakes in total during this trip: Mingze, the mysterious small lake in Bailongdui, and Youze in front of them.

All three lakes have problems.

This probability is too high. Is it possible that there are no normal lakes in the Western Region?

"I can't make a conclusion yet, it's just a guess."

Wu Liang smiled and said, "But we have already arrived, so let's have a thorough investigation along the lakeside. If there is indeed any problem, we will naturally investigate it to the end. If no problem is found, we have not relaxed well for some days."

After a while, I thought it was a relaxing time by the lake."

…

Lop Nur is amazingly big.

Although Wu Liang already knew before coming here that when Lop Nur was the largest in history, the water area once exceeded 3,000 square kilometers. Such a lake is comparable to a sea for the inland, so there was also a "Puchang Sea" in Lop Nur in ancient times.

Names such as "Lauran Sea" and "Furi Sea".

But it was only when he was actually galloping around the lake that Wu Liang realized the concept of thousands of square kilometers.

To be honest, he was not sure how many square kilometers the current Lop Nur water area was.

He only knew that he and the backbone of the Hu army rode all the way from early morning to mid-afternoon before finally reaching the other end of Lop Nur.

According to Yang Wanli's estimation, they had traveled at least more than a hundred miles on this trip, which was evident from the fact that the horses under them were already foaming from exhaustion.

The north needle on Yuji's compass showed that they had run from the west of Lop Nur to the east of Lop Nur.

The Lop Nur River on this side has turned into a different scene.

What appeared before Wu Liang and others was a large area of ​​silt shoals that could only be measured in square kilometers.

A large area of ​​mud has been completely dried, revealing cracked dried mud shells, and above these mud shells, there is still a layer of yellow-white mineral salt crystals hanging.

What should have been lush aquatic plants has now turned into withered hay, and a gust of wind makes a harsh sound like pieces of paper rubbing against each other.

There are also some red willow forests here.

And these red willow forests also look malnourished. Not only are there fewer branches and leaves, but even the remaining branches and leaves are soft and wilting. It feels like they are already in the wind. I am afraid there is no way to hold on.

It seems like too long.

"this……"

If this was the scene he saw at the beginning, Wu Liang would definitely not doubt King Shanshan's words. The water area of ​​Lop Nur had indeed shrunk, and it looked shocking.

"This is wrong. For the same lake, how can there be such a huge difference between the west bank and the east bank?"

While everyone was shocked, new doubts immediately appeared in their hearts.

The water level of a lake must be a complete plane.

There is no reason why the water level in the east has dropped so seriously, but the water level in the west has not only not dropped, but also seems to have some signs of rising. This is completely unreasonable no matter how you think about it.

And it's not just that they can't understand it, even Wu Liang can't use the knowledge he knows to make a reasonable explanation.

unless……

The terrain below Lop Nur is like a bowl filled with water.

This bowl is now tilted, just like a bowl of water without a flat end. When the amount of water remains unchanged, the water level will rise on one side and drop on the other.

But it is obvious that Lop Nur is not a bowl, but a crust that will not change easily.

If you want the earth's crust to tilt like a bowl, it will definitely trigger extremely violent crustal movements. That is not an ordinary thing, it is a terrible earthquake!

And Wu Liang has not been idle in the Golden Chamber Pavilion of the palace in the past half month.

In addition to reading the history of Shanni City and the ancient Loulan Kingdom, he also made a special effort to understand the major events that had occurred in Shanshan in recent years.

Therefore, he can be sure that there has not been a relatively strong earthquake in Shanshan Kingdom in recent decades, let alone in recent years.

So, even if Lop Nur is undergoing some changes.

It should also be a subtle change, a change that the Shanshan King family and residents are unaware of...

Thinking of this, Wu Liang suddenly remembered the relevant records in the biography of the First King of Loulan.

The ruins of the ancient city they had visited, as well as the lifelike "stone statues" left in the ruins.

At present, the Loulan Ancient Kingdom has not disappeared mysteriously, and the Loulan royal family and residents are still living in Janni City. Therefore, the ruins and the "stone statues" in the ruins that existed before the establishment of the Loulan Ancient Kingdom most likely belong to an earlier period than the Loulan Ancient Kingdom.

, and even preceded the "Lop Nur Civilization" by nearly two thousand years.

As far as Wu Liang knows, if it hadn't been for a sudden and huge disaster.

Just like the ancient city of Pompeii in the West that was instantly submerged in magma and volcanic ash during a volcanic eruption, it is absolutely impossible for a living person to be suffocated to death by urine. Once the environment is not suitable for survival, they will immediately drag their families and take care of themselves.

Migrate instead of staying in the ruins and waiting for death to come.

Therefore, those "stone statues" left in the ruins may have suffered some sudden and terrible disaster.

In addition, many details of those "stone statues" are very similar to those people and the camel that Wu Liang met in the mysterious lake in Bailongdui, which makes it difficult for Wu Liang not to connect them.

together.

even.

Wu Liang has begun to wonder whether there is some unknown connection between Lop Nur and the mysterious lake:

First of all, both are saltwater lakes, but Lop Nur obviously does not have as high a concentration of salt-alkali minerals as the mysterious small lake.

But then I thought again, saline-alkali minerals can be diluted. Before the Kongque River was injected into Lop Nur, God knows what Lop Nur looked like. Maybe it was just a small lake the size of a football field. The concentration was so amazing that it could make people enter Lop Nur.

The organisms within them calcify rapidly.

After all, the Kongque River is not a saltwater river, but after the fresh water from the Kongque River flowed into Lop Nur, Lop Nur turned into a saltwater lake. This means that the saline-alkali minerals in the lake come from Lop Nur itself, and even thousands of square kilometers of water cannot be used to make it.

It can be seen from this that the saline-alkali minerals are diluted to a slightly invisible level;

Secondly, the geographical location of the two is actually very close.

Bailongdui and Lop Nur, where the mysterious lake is located, are both to the east of Janni City, but one is in the northeast and the other is in the southeast.

Looking at it this way, without the injection of the Kongque River, these two places should probably have the same "Bailongdui" Yadan landform. After all, after Lop Nur completely dried up in later generations, the landform would really be similar to the Bailongdui landform.

;

At this moment.

Wu Liang suddenly began to wonder whether the "Lop Nur Civilization", which was nearly two thousand years earlier than the "Ancient Loulan Kingdom", had mysteriously disappeared due to such a high concentration of saline-alkali lakes, so that there were elusive civilization faults for later generations?

The reason is still the suspected calcified "stone statues" in the ruins.

It's a pity that Wu Liang hasn't found the ruins yet, otherwise he could make a judgment based on the actual condition of the ruins and those "stone statues".
To be continued...