The gas lamp hanging on the beams of the house was blown by the wind that poured into the ruined house, and the light flickered, reflecting the light and darkness in the ruined house, and the dark stone man looked like a dead man buried alive, with only his head exposed, and all the yellow sand underneath.
When I got closer, it turned out that on the eyes of the stone man, there was a big ant lying on his stomach, the size of a knuckle, the body was black, and the tail was blood red.
When I saw that it was just an ant, I flicked it to the ground, stepped on it, and heard a soft sound of gaba in my ears, and stepped on it, and I felt a little strange that the body of this big ant was much harder than that of ordinary ants.
I looked around, there was air everywhere in the broken house, I don't know where this ant crawled in, Shirley Yang came up to me and asked me what was the matter, I said nothing, just an ant, let me trample to death.
I woke up the fat man who was sleeping soundly and told him to go to the sentry, then I added some solid fuel to the fire to make it burn brighter, turned off the gas lamp, and went to sleep in my sleeping bag.
The body was tired, and soon fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, and the sandstorm outside had been blowing all night, and it had not stopped, but it was much lighter than the previous wind, and this devilish sandstorm was finally coming to an end.
A large section of the ruins of the ancient city has fallen into the yellow sand, and there is not much of the exposed part of the ground, and there are two more such large winds and sands, I am afraid that this nameless ancient city will disappear into the desert, but even if it is all buried in the yellow sand, it does not mean that it will be buried forever, more than half of the Taklamakan is a mobile desert, and the desert is moved with the strong wind, and I don't know how many years later it will see the light of day.
Hao Aiguo was directing the students to dig up the stone figure in the corner of the wall, and he had already dug up the thigh of the stone man, and everyone was watching around, only An Liman took advantage of the weakening wind and went out to take care of the camels hiding under the city wall.
I took out some dry food from my bag and watched them dig while eating, and this time I followed the archaeological team into the desert, not only to see if there were any large ancient tombs, but also to learn some archaeological experience from these experts.
They were afraid of damaging the carvings on the stone figures, so they only dug up the sand on the periphery with a sapper shovel, and then cleaned it little by little with a flat shovel and a brush, digging a part, cleaning a part, and at the same time making various records.
When Professor Chen saw that I was awake, he nodded to me and said hello, it seemed that he was in good health. He told me that now this time is to let the students practice their hands, increase some internship experience, although the learning of theoretical knowledge is important, but in the field of archaeology, on-site practice is also very important, in the field to see more contact and more hands-on, in order to have an intuitive feeling, combined with the theory will be much faster.
After a while, the students cleared up to the base of the stone statue, which was the first time I had seen a stone figure with giant pupils, dressed in a beard, with drooping arms, and many patterns carved on its body, which seemed to be some kind of tantric scripture. According to Professor Chen, the texts have never been deciphered, but with the expansion of archaeological research in recent years, experts believe that they should be some kind of symbol or code that records some information about ancient religions. As for why these symbols were carved on the stone figures, it may be related to sacrifices. However, there are no relevant documents, murals, historical records and other materials, and these are only speculations so far.
Sa Dipeng listened to the professor's explanation and asked: "Professor, the shape of this stone man is very different from ordinary people, I think there is this possibility, there is a religion of worshipping aliens in ancient times, after they have seen aliens, they think they are gods, so they made some such stone people to come out to worship, the symbols on these stone people are an alien language. "
Hao Aiguo immediately criticized him: "Xiao Sa, you usually don't work hard to study, how many times have you told you, you are a very smart child, don't use your brains in crooked places, why did you even get aliens?" Treat history and archaeology seriously. "
Professor Chen did not get angry, but showed a kind smile: "It's not a bad thing to have imagination, young people, active thinking, it's good." Unity and tension, seriousness and liveliness, there is no contradiction at all. However, when we archaeology and study history, we must follow a principle, make bold assumptions, and carefully verify them. Imagination should be based on the basis of reality, and imagination without basis is unreliable. Let's take this giant pupil stone statue as an example, ancient people like to judge good luck and bad luck through astronomical phenomena, every night, they look at the starry sky, will they hope that their eyes can see farther? When making stone statues, would you add this desire to you? This possibility is very high, Sanxingdui in Sichuan has also unearthed some statues, the eyes extend long, conservatively speaking, this is very likely to entrust an expression of the ancients' desire to explore. "
When I heard this, I couldn't help but admire, the professor still has a level and does not oppress people with big truths, compared to Professor Chen's realm, Hao Aiguo is much worse.
Professor Chen continued: "The aliens you mentioned are not impossible, and the mention of aliens does not mean that the fictional science fantasy in foreign novels actually appears in our ancient Chinese notes and murals. As early as 7,500 years ago, in the murals of the primitive tribes of Helan Mountain, there were images of astronauts wearing spacesuits, they walked out of a large disc, and the surrounding animals and inhabitants fled in all directions. A similar situation is recorded in the tripod vessels of the Zhou and Xia periods, as well as in some ancient books..."
At this time, Anliman jumped back from the hole in the roof in the wind and sand, and told everyone that the sandstorm was almost over, and in less than half an hour, the sky would be clear, all with the blessing of Allah, the sand was about to swallow the outer wall, and if we scraped for another two hours, we would be buried alive here today.
Originally, everyone was still a little worried, although they saw that the wind was light, but they didn't know when they could stop, and with An Liman's words, they completely put down their hanging hearts. The students listened attentively to Professor Chen's lecture, and I made a pot of tea on the fire, ready for everyone to leave when they were done.
As soon as the tea was boiling, several people around the giant pupil stone statue suddenly screamed in unison, and they all jumped back, and some people shouted: "Ah... Why are there so many big ants? Some people shouted, "Ouch! It's also available here! "
I hurried to look, only to see a large bag of sand bulging from the feet of the stone man, like a fountain gushing out of countless large ants, someone used a shovel to shoot, and killed hundreds of them at once, but at the same time thousands of them emerged from the sand. It's dense, and it makes people's scalps tight.
At first, I thought that they had dug up the sand and dug up the ant nest, but soon found that this was not the case, and more and more large holes appeared in the ground, and more and more ants crawled out of them, each with a pitch-black body, a red tail, red and black, like the tide of the embankment.
An Liman only glanced at it, turned his head and ran out, the fat man and the others still wanted to shoot with a sapper shovel, at this moment, there were so many ants that they couldn't start.
Shirley Yang, a photographer for National Geographic, has traveled a lot and seen a lot, but she anxiously shouted to everyone: "Climb out of the roof, everyone, this is a desert marching ant, if you walk slowly, you will be gnawed into a bone frame." "
Tens of thousands of desert marching ants have filled half of the house, and more are crawling out of the ground, not only underground, but also on the beams and walls. Professor Chen, Ye Yixin, and several people were so shocked by this terrifying situation that their feet weakened, and they could still walk half a step.
Not to mention those intellectuals, even me and the fat man were trembling all over, these desert marching ants were terrible, maybe the original human bones in the house were their masterpieces, no wonder there was no flesh and skin left.
I tried to calm myself down, looked at the people around me, and found that the old guy An Liman escaped first by himself, this old fritter, ran when he saw danger, and yesterday he swore to share weal and woe with us.
Seeing that the sapper shovel could not stop the tide of desert marching ants, I kicked over the fire that was boiling tea, poured out all the half-iron cans of solid fuel, and formed a wall of fire in the house.
There were too many of those desert marching ants, and they didn't hesitate to rush to the wall of fire, trying to use their numbers to extinguish the flames, thanks to the high flammability of solid fuel, but it was only a matter of time before they were crushed by the colony.
Taking advantage of this time, we took the luggage and equipment that we could hold, and even dragged them out, and the wind and sand outside were already very small, only to see hundreds of yellow sheep, wild camels, sand wolves, gerbils, and hyenas scurrying in the ruins of the ancient city. Not only the big house we were in just now, but also patches of desert marching ants appeared in many places, and some animals ran a little slower, and they were immediately covered by desert marching ants.
The mouth of the desert marching ant contains a large amount of formic acid, thousands of them bite together, even the elephant can not bear it, some sand wolves and yellow sheep have fallen to the ground, after the desert marching ant, they are only left with a pile of white bones.
There are tens of millions of desert marching ants in this city, as if the entire ancient city is a huge ant nest, and we are trapped on the roof, and we can only wave the sapper shovel to sweep the marching ants that climb up.
In the distance, under the city walls, Anliman was busy untying the ropes that bound the camel, and I threw my rifle to the fat man: "Hit him in the hat." "
The fat man raised his rifle and pulled the trigger on An Liman without hesitation, and with a "snap", An Liman's fur hat was blown away by the bullet, which frightened him and turned his neck to look back at the people on the roof.
I shouted at him: "Old man, if you dare to run, the second shot will hit your ass, Hu Da will definitely have no opinion." "
An Liman waved his hand again and again, signaling not to run. But the house was already full of desert marching ants, and we couldn't get down for the time being, and there was no way to do it on the roof, so we were ignoring it, but we saw a broken wall collapse with a bang, and a big ant like a lamb crawled out of it.
This is a queen ant with six pairs of large transparent wings, probably due to the sandstorm attack, which alarmed the queen ant hiding deep in the nest, and it is preparing to migrate.
Seeing the queen's momentum, the faces of the archaeological team members changed, and Shirley Yang shouted: "Capture the thief and capture the king first, shoot it quickly." "
The fat man patted the sports air rifle in his hand and stomped his foot in a hurry: "The caliber of this gun is too small, it can't fucking move." Having said that, he fired his gun, firing all the remaining bullets in the magazine at the queen.
I took off my scarf to protect against the sand, wrapped the rest of the solid fuel in it, took out a lighter, lit a corner of the scarf, and smashed it from the roof to the queen ant below.
This trick actually worked wonders, the fire took advantage of the wind to envelop the huge body of the queen, and the queen ant suffered pain, struggling to roll on the sand, and the more the fire burned, the bigger it burned. This kind of compressed fuel can burn for more than ten minutes as long as it is a little bit, not to mention that this is more than half a barrel, which is enough for about a kilogram. The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the surrounding desert marching ants blew up the camp, desperately rushing to the queen ant, hoping to extinguish the flames with their numbers.
I saw that the opportunity was coming, beckoned to everyone, jumped down the broken house with a sapper shovel first, and dispersed the scattered desert marching ants, the big man Chu Jian carried Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo, Ye Yixin and others supported each other, and after the fat man broke, the group rushed out from the breakthrough.
At this time, An Liman had already controlled the frightened camel herd, everyone climbed on the camels, urging the camel team to run out of the city, and there were all kinds of wild beasts running around from time to time.
The caravan ran hundreds of meters, and when I looked back, the dilapidated ruins of the ancient city were no longer visible, and countless desert marching ants, tumbling and tumbling like boiling red and black water, were swarming out of the ground. But as long as you are not surrounded by this large group of ants, there is no danger.
An Liman explained that he wanted to go out first and untie the ropes that tied the camels, or let the ant colony gnaw the camels into bones, and we couldn't run away if we wanted to, so we didn't run for our lives first.
The fat man didn't believe it, and pointed to the rifle on his back with his thumb: "You tell me, if you want to explain in the future, you can explain it to my gun." "
An Liman's reason seems to be very sufficient, and it cannot be determined that he left everyone and ran away alone, and there are still many places in the desert that cannot be separated from him in the future, and I don't want to fall out with him about this, so I stopped the fat man and didn't let him continue.
I said to An Liman: "We saw the auspicious white camel together in the desert, and escaped the siege of the desert marching ants, which is the will of Hu Da. He thinks that we are brothers, and we are all devout believers, so we all believe in you, and those who betray friends and brothers, Hu will punish him. "
Alimanlian claimed: "Praise be to Allah, Huda is the only true God, we are all good friends and brothers, and Allah will surely bless us." "
Even if this episode is over, who knows what troubles await us in the depths of the sand sea of the ancient city of Xiye, I still have to find a way to persuade Professor Chen to go back.
We are less than half a day away from the ruins of the ancient city of the West Night, the wind has stopped, and the sun like a fireball hangs in the air. Walking in the desert, the most important thing is to keep yourself with enough water, it is taboo to rush during the day, but our water is still very sufficient, and we can replenish the water when we arrive in the West Night City, so we will move forward in the desert against the blazing sun.
In ancient times, the orogeny of the Himalayas formed the Tarim Basin, and the terrain of the whole Xinjiang is like a big bowl, with a bowl of golden yellow sand in the bowl, and the camel team composed of nine of us and nineteen camels is too small, and its proportion is not as good as one-ten-thousandth of a grain of sand in this bowl of golden sand.
The desert is vast, there is no boundary, if it is not for the long footprints behind you, you can't even feel that you are constantly advancing, I really admire those explorers who enter the desert Gobi Desert alone, maybe only walking alone between heaven and earth, they will experience the true meaning of life. Admiration is admiration, I don't plan to do that in my life, or is group life suitable for me.
Sa Dipeng and the others were very curious, and asked Shirley Yang to talk about the desert marching ants as they walked, Shirley Yang had not seen it with his own eyes before, but he had only seen the villages that the desert marching ants had ransacked, and the people and animals were gnawed to the bones, which was miserable.
The reason why this kind of ant colony is called marching ants is because they have a high degree of organization and discipline, mainly soldier ants, if compared with human armies, in addition to mobility and firepower, the coordination and organization ability of well-trained human armies cannot be compared with desert marching ants.
As they walked, the sand dunes under their feet were high and low, undulating to an unprecedented degree, An Liman said that under these dense sand dunes were ancient cities swallowed by yellow sand, he led everyone up to the highest big sand mountain, pointed to the south and told everyone, there is our middle station ——— the ruins of the ancient city of Xiye.
I raised my binoculars and looked south to see an oasis in the heart of the Sand Sea.
An oasis in the desert resembles an emerald adorned on a gold plate, and from a distance, the ruins of a black city stand in it.
The ruins of the West Night City are quite well preserved, and the age of this city is relatively late, until the end of the Tang Dynasty, when it was destroyed in the war and abandoned to this day. At the beginning of the 19th century, German explorers discovered the site and looted most of the artefacts such as frescoes and statues.
Only this empty city is left in the desert, the oldest ancient channel of the Peacock River, and it ends here. Since the city has been passed through underground water veins throughout the year from ancient times to the present, it has become an important supply point for travelers in the desert.
The camel caravan went down the Dasha Mountain, slowly moving towards the oasis, An Liman and I discussed, to the West Night City to rest for two more days and then enter the black desert, it is not easy to turn back after entering, these days the camels are frightened, and carry a large number of supplies, have to take good care of the foot strength before they can set off again.
This is exactly what I want, I wish I would have stopped for a few more days, so that I could find an excuse to persuade the archaeological team to go home, and not to look for any exquisite ancient cities, just dig two pits nearby, and walk around. Lately I have felt more and more inadequate, and if I go deeper into the desert, something big will happen sooner or later, and then I am afraid that I will not be as lucky as I was the first few times.
I slowed down the pace of the camel and rode with Professor Chen, and I said to him, "Professor, how about we enter the West Night City, rest for three or five days, five or six days, and then set off?" Anliman said that the camels were exhausted, and if they didn't rest enough, we would have to change the number 11. "
Professor Chen was puzzled and asked, "What... Number Eleven? How to open? "
I said, "Professor, why don't you even know that you are walking on two legs." I used my two fingers to imitate walking on two legs, "Isn't this the Eleven?" "
Professor Chen laughed: "Brother Hu, you, you, where did you get so many fresh words?" It's funny. Well, we're going to be in for a few days, and I'm just looking to take a good look at the ruins of this famous city. "
It is not far from the oasis on the sand mountain, but it took three hours to get there. The city walls are made of black stones, and some places have collapsed and weathered, and the damage is very serious, only the main city is quite strong, and the glorious atmosphere of the past can still be faintly seen. Some oil well workers, expedition teams, and geological exploration teams pass by here, and they all stay in the main city, blocking the door with stones, so they don't have to worry about the attack of wolves.
Since the mid-70s, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet have carried out vigorous wolf fighting activities, and the large-scale wolf population has completely disappeared, leaving only a few groups of three or five, or lone wolves acting alone, are not a problem. What's more, there are a lot of us and we have guns, so naturally we don't have to worry about wolves.
It was the monsoon season, and no one else came here except us, so we found a spacious room in the main city, lit a campfire, and ate and made tea.
An Liman and I found the ancient well in the city, it is said that for thousands of years, this well has not dried up, An Liman said that this is a miracle of Hu Da, I am noncommittal about it. Use a bucket to hit a bucket of well water, the well is very deep, put dozens of meters of long rope before I heard the sound of falling water, after taking it out, I first drank a sip, cold and cold, into the heart and spleen, in the desert by the poisonous sun of the fire suddenly disappeared, the heart can not be said to be comfortable to use.
He placed all the nineteen camels beside the well, drank them one by one, took out salt croton cakes for them to eat, and then carried two large buckets of well water back to the house where the archaeological team members rested.
These people were so tired that they fell asleep on the ground, and some of them still had half a piece of bread in their mouths, and they fell asleep after eating half of it. I didn't alarm them, and these few days are enough for them.
After boiling a large pot of water, Professor Chen and the others woke up one by one, forced them to scald their feet with hot water, and then broke the bubbles on their feet.
It was all done, and I went to sleep, and I slept groggily for a whole day and a night, and my tired body finally recovered, and at night everyone sat around listening to the fat man's bragging.
The fat man's mouth is like a river, telling everyone how rich the products in the old forests of the Northeast are, how delicious the delicacies of the mountains and wild games are, which is like this desert, except that the sand is sand, and the wind is strong, and when you take a bite of a yellow sheep, you will eat a mouthful of sand particles. Especially in the big and small Xing'an Mountains, there is anything delicious, there is such a saying since ancient times, the rod beats the roe deer scoop the fish, and the pheasant flies into the rice pot. Can you imagine the hunters living freely?
Several students have little experience, which makes the fat man stupid, Sa Dipeng pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and asked curiously: "Brother Wang, what is a roe deer?" Hit with a stick? "
The fat man said: "Glasses, I see that you are very studious, so I will tell you, that is, if you walk in the mountains, take a stick, and pick it with your hand, you will smash a roe deer to death, and you can catch a big fat fish with a scoop in the river, which means that you are rich in products." "
Shirley Yang snorted and disdained what the fat man said: "The desert also has the benefits of the desert, the species of animals and plants in the desert are not less than those in the forest, and although the Taklamakan Desert is at the lowest point of the basin, in a sense, it is a peak of ancient civilization, what else is there in the forest besides wild deer and bears?" "
I was afraid that the two of them would fight, so I quickly said that there was a lady in the house, and we brothers and sons went out to smoke a cigarette, and pulled the fat man outside as we talked.
The moon in the sky was picturesque, the stars were like brocade, and the earth was shining with a silver light, so I lit a cigarette for the fat man and persuaded him to let him go more. The fat man said that of course I can't be as knowledgeable as her, they Americans are not sensible, we can't understand it, not to mention that it is a woman, if it were a man, he would have screwed off his head and kicked it as a ball.
I smiled and said, "That's right, yes, what kind of person are you, soaking and peeing can make a big hole in the gray ground, you have to be an adult, don't pull Shirley Yang's head off, or who will we go to with that salary?" Twenty thousand beauties, that's not a small number. "
After a few laughs, I raised my head and spit out a smoke ring, only to see the giant gate star, the left auxiliary star, and the right Bi star in the sky, the three stars are shining, arranged in a regular triangle, and the central sun star and Taiyin star appear together, a good group of Qianjia Jinji stars.
I had never carefully studied the Tianxing Feng Shui before, but I just looked at it several times in order to get some money from the archaeological team, and at this time, the content of the Tianzi scroll in the Feng Shui Secret Art immediately came to mind.
I hurriedly ran back to the house, took the compass, and climbed to the top of the tower, and compared it with the stars in the sky, this place shrouded in auspicious stars, in the ancient well in the city. This is the first time I have practiced Tianxing Feng Shui, and I don't know the bottom of my heart, but most of the time I will not be mistaken, my family's "Fragment of the Dragon Sutra" is not a vulgar thing. So in the vicinity of the underground water veins, there must be ancient tombs? There is such a thing as holding water in the tomb, but it is too close.
Anyway, this is a major discovery, and I'll have to tell the archaeological team about it, and it's better that they find something here, and if they get something, they probably won't have to go into the Black Desert.
Hearing this, Professor Chen was overjoyed, and led the students to the well in a hurry, eager to go down and have a look. The railings and nooses of this well were reinstalled later, and the previous ones were destroyed long ago.
I discussed it with Shirley Yang, the well is very deep, and you can make a double-lock safety lock and hang people down to see what is there.
That could only be me going down. Although there was a water vein below, he still didn't dare to be careless, put on a gas mask, a flashlight, a whistle, a sapper shovel, a dagger, secretly hid the black donkey's hooves and touched the gold charm, stretched out his hand to test the sturdiness of the rope, discussed the way to contact, if he used the flashlight to shake up three times, the people above would stop when they saw it; The second time you shake the flashlight upwards, it is to pull it up, in order to prevent accidents, there is also a whistle, if you can't see the light of the flashlight, use the whistle to contact.
At this time, it is night, except for the light of the flashlight, it is pitch black all around, and you can't see the location of the wellhead clearly when you look up, the deeper and deeper it falls, the night temperature in the desert is very low, and the humidity in the well is high, which makes people feel cold from the inside out.
The wall of the well is slippery and difficult to settle, and it is said that the age of this ancient well is much older than that of the West Night City, and it was the first to have this well, and then the West Night City. Suddenly, a cool breeze blew, and I hurriedly shone it with a flashlight, and saw a stone gate on the wall of the well.
I aimed it overhead, blew my whistle and shook my flashlight, it was not far from the mouth of the well, only fifteen or sixteen meters deep, and if I spoke loudly, the people above could hear it. They received the signal to stop putting the rope again, and I was hanging a little below the stone door.
The cold wind blew out of the gap in the stone door, I pushed it with my hand, and I felt that the stone door was very thick, there was no stone lock and stone latch, although the gap was large, it could not be pushed, and it needed to be opened with a crowbar.
When I saw that I couldn't get in, I gave a second signal and asked them to pull me up. I explained the situation in detail about the well, and Professor Chen was amazed: "Strange, this may not be a mausoleum, but a secret passage or something. "
The fat man volunteered: "It doesn't matter what he is, it's not interesting to guess, let's go in and see." Get me down, and I'll pry open the stone door. "
I said, "Forget it, I'll go down with a crowbar, fat man, you're too heavy, and if the rope breaks, we'll have to go down the well to catch you." "
This time we made a rope ladder, so that after the stone gate was opened, anyone who wanted to go down could climb down from the rope ladder, and in the end the people who decided to go down were Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, Sa Dipeng and me, and the fat man and others stayed on it.
It seems that this door used to open and close often, otherwise there would not be such a big gap, but it may not have been opened in the last few hundred years, and it was impossible to use force on the rope ladder, so it took a lot of effort to open this door.
Behind the stone gate is a masonry corridor, spacious and neat, and the inside is unfathomably dark, I beckoned Shirley Yang above to come down and pulled the three people into the corridor one by one.
Shirley Yang gave everyone a pill, saying that it would prevent hypoxia, and then put on a gas mask and go inside.
The four of them walked about fifty meters inside, passing through two stone gates in a row, the last door was sealed tightly, the stone door was embossed with an unknown beast, and the dead animal skin was pasted on the crack of the door, and the animal skin was cut off piece by piece with a flat shovel before the door could be opened.
At the end, I entered a spacious and dry stone room, which was about sixty or seventy meters long and wide, and three meters high, and the four people standing in it did not look cramped and crowded at all.
Although this space is spacious, the atmosphere is by no means relaxed, there are many white bones on the ground, and there is no place to put your feet, and those bones are all animals, extremely loose, and they will break when you step on them, and there are dozens of wooden pillars standing around, on which are tied a human skeleton with air-dried bones, and the body size is all a man in the prime of life.
Professor Chen and Shirley Yang and I have been practicing for a long time, but I feel that this place is mysterious, and I don't feel afraid, only Sa Dipeng saw so many dried corpses, and he was so scared that he couldn't even speak.
Shirley Yang looked at the dried corpses and sighed, "It's so miserable, it's all buried slaves or prisoners or something, it's too barbaric." "
Professor Chen said to the crowd: "It seems that this is the place where sacrifices to important dead are held, which is the custom of Gumo in ancient times, these individuals are criminals, tied to death of thirst in the desert, completely dried, and then put here after being completely dried, and then the blood of the slaughtered animals is poured on these dried corpses." Let's look for it, there should be a burial chamber here. "
We went around and looked around, there were stone walls on all sides, and after a few taps, it was obviously solid, and there would be no other space behind it.
Shirley Yang was careful and found that there was a problem with the floor of the stone room, so I removed all the broken bones on the ground, revealing a large stone slab that was also embossed on the ground, and there were two pull rings at both ends.
I beckoned Sa Dipeng to help me pull up the slate, and when I saw that his whole body was shaking, I couldn't help but laugh, so I asked him to go back the way he came, so as not to be scared to pee his pants here, and by the way, he changed Hao Aiguo, he must be interested in this strange tomb.
As if he had received amnesty, Sa Dipeng hurriedly ran back, and Professor Chen was angry and funny: "Alas, this kid is too timid to do archaeological materials." "
Shirley Yang and I pulled open the stone slab on the ground, and then threw in a cold firework, illuminating the bottom clearly, only to see that under the ground was a tomb about the same size as the top, and there was a square coffin in the middle, saying that the difference between the coffin and the mainland was too big, there was no decorative pattern, it was not rectangular, it was square, but it looked like a big box.
I haven't seen this kind of tomb and coffin form, and with Professor Chen's knowledge, I can't even see the truth. I am afraid that this is a long-lost form of ancient national tombs, which is largely influenced by Han culture, but it is really rare to make it plausible and add a lot of its own culture.
At this time, Hao Aiguo came with Chu Jian, when he saw the scene here, his eyes lit up with excitement, put on a gas mask, and jumped down first. I always thought he was a serious and old-fashioned person, but I didn't expect him to be like a child at this time, and he was almost dancing and scratching his ears and cheeks now.
We also went down to the tomb on the ground floor one after another, and when we looked around, we couldn't help but let out an "ah", the four walls of the tomb were full of exquisite colorful murals.
When Professor Chen saw one of them, he was also excited enough: "This ... The events recorded in this painting are related to the Exquisite Kingdom. "
The thing I want to see the most is the valuable funeral goods, this coffin is not small, maybe there is something good in it, although they can't take it away in front of the professor, but it can also open the eyes. I now feel that the tomb of a nobleman is more luxurious than the tomb of the general in the Black Wind Mouth.
But Professor Chen was looking at the murals in the tomb and didn't pay attention to the coffin in the middle, so I had to wait patiently and only listen to Professor Chen comment on these murals to Hao Aiguo.
The first few paintings show that the owner of the tomb was the prince of Gumo during his lifetime, and Gumo was a vassal state of the Elite, who was oppressed, and sacrificed a large number of treasures and cattle and sheep slaves every year, and he once went to the Queen of the Exquisite to ask for the freedom of his subjects, and went three times in a row, but did not see the queen's face.
The painting presumably says that he is not reconciled, the brave prince is the embodiment of the sun god of war, and he sneaks into the essence alone to assassinate the evil queen, only to discover a big secret.
I was also fascinated by the professor's words, and I wondered what the secret was, so I walked over and listened to the professor's explanation with Shirley Yang and the others.
Professor Chen walked to the next mural and looked at it carefully for a long time: "This meaning is very strange, you see the prince hiding in the corner and snooping in this painting. The face of the Absolute Queen is veiled in all the frescoes, and in this painting the Queen only has her back, and she lifts the veil with one hand, and the person opposite, as if a slave or something, becomes a shadow... Gone? "
I was confused, and was about to ask, but I heard Shirley Yang say, "This queen is a ... Monster. "
"Youkai?" Professor Chen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said to Shirley, "Interesting, tell me what you think." "
Shirley Yang pointed to the mural and said: "The painter who painted this mural has a high level of painting skills, the composition is gorgeous and expressive, and it narrates the major deeds of the life of the prince of Gumo, although there is no text commentary, but the characteristics are very distinct. "
I listened to her analysis of the mural and watched it carefully, and indeed as she said, the characters, costumes, buildings, and demeanor in the mural are all vivid, and if you have an understanding of the culture of the Western Regions, you can roughly grasp the background of the events recorded in the painting through this information in the painting.
Shirley Yang continued: "Professor, the mural you just mentioned is the most difficult to understand of all the murals. In the painting, the queen lifts the veil that has always covered her face, and a figure opposite her becomes a dotted line. All the figures in the frescoes are realistic, except for the person who sees the face of the Queen, who has become a dotted line, and only draws a faint outline, from which we cannot see the identity of this figure, and can only speculate that the dotted figure is a slave or an assassin or something, an enemy that the queen wants to get rid of. "
When I heard this, I couldn't help but interject and ask, "Miss Yang, what do you mean... The person in the painting saw the queen's face and disappeared? "
Shirley Yang said: "Mr. Hu said something about the same, if I were to explain it in my words, I would say that the queen's eyes looked at this person, and this person disappeared." "
I shook my head and smiled bitterly: "Big living person, it's gone at a glance?" Gone? This... It's also too ... It's incredible, but to be honest, it's a little difficult for me to understand. "
Professor Chen seemed to understand what Shirley Yang meant, and motioned for her to continue.
"I'm speculating, but I'm not talking about it. My father liked to read a book called "The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" before his death, which was written by the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang, and I have read it several times, and the book recorded a lot of legends of the ancient Western Regions, some of which are myths and legends, and many of which are real events, including a legend of the Queen of the Desert. In the depths of the desert, there is a city inhabited by an underground people who have conquered and ruled over other small neighboring nations. After hundreds of years, the throne passed to a queen, and legend has it that the queen's eyes are the passage to the underworld, and she only needs to look at her enemies, and the other party will disappear without a trace out of thin air, and will never return, and where the disappeared people go, I am afraid that only those people themselves know. The queen ruled by oppression, she wanted all the people of the neighboring countries to worship her as a true god, and all those who resisted were skinned and put to death, perhaps her actions angered Allah, and the queen suffered from a strange illness within a few years and died with a whimper.
As soon as she died, the slaves and the surrounding countries oppressed by the queen formed an alliance and washed the queen's royal city in blood. As the Coalition prepares to destroy the Queen's Mausoleum, the heavens and the earth change color, and the terrible wind and sand engulf the royal city and the coalition army, burying the Queen's tomb and the countless treasures she has collected under the sand. After hundreds of years, the flow of the desert brought the royal city back to light, and some travelers passing through it would cause a desert storm if they took any of the city's possessions, and the smoke and clouds would rise, and the roads would be lost, and the people who had taken the queen's treasures would never be able to leave.
"But this legendary mysterious royal city, the evil queen, and the background of the year, etc., there is no clear record in the book, today I see the murals in the tomb here, compared with the ancient legend, the two have a lot of similarities, making people feel that it is not only a legend, maybe in the dusty history, there have really been such things."
Shirley Yang showed the crowd the next few murals: "The reason why we are sure that the queen in the painting is the queen of the exquisite is because of the special costumes of the exquisite people, as well as the unique buildings and decorations, which are the most powerful evidence." Professor, Mr. Hu, if you look at the frescoes in the back, it proves the reliability of my reasoning, and the meaning of these frescoes is very clear, the prince's assassination was unsuccessful, and he continued to plot how to get rid of the queen after returning to China, when the prince met a soothsayer from a distant country, and the soothsayer asked the prince to hide a special chronic poison in the flesh of the golden lamb, and then pay tribute to the queen. Sure enough, not long after, the news of the queen's sudden attack came. At the same time, the prince died prematurely due to overwork, and he was buried with his beloved wife. The soothsayers designed a mausoleum and buried them under the altar of the holy well. "
It turned out that the tomb was built with the upper altar first, and the events recorded in this fresco are closely related to the legend in the book. Professor Chan was very relieved to see that although Shirley Yang was a photographer, he was born in an archaeological family and had a family background, and his old classmates had a daughter. At this time, I thought of the old friend who disappeared in the depths of the desert, and I couldn't help but cry.
Shirley Yang said to the professor: "Take care of your body, don't be too sad, this time we have gained a lot, and there has been a breakthrough in the understanding of the Exquisite Ruins, I believe that in the near future, we will definitely be able to find the Exquisite Ancient City." The father had a spirit in heaven, and he was able to blind his eyes. "
I secretly complained in my heart, I wanted to find an ancient tomb and let them turn around and go back, but I didn't expect it to backfire, seeing this situation, it was useless to persuade them again, I knew that I pretended not to see it at the beginning.
I suddenly remembered that Shirley Yang said that the queen of the Peerless Kingdom was a monster, so I asked: "Miss Yang, I remember hearing you talk about it before, the queen is the first beauty in the Western Regions, and other women are eclipsed in front of her like stars seeing the sun, how can you say that she is a monster?" If she is really a monster, let's go to her grave, won't we send her to death? "
Shirley Yang said: "These things are legends, and with our inferences, they are not necessarily true. Archaeology is like this, legends, records, unearthed antiquities, plus scholars' speculation, the more these contents, the closer to the truth of history. But all we can do is get infinitely closer to the truth, and no history can be restored. In ancient times, human beings have a very low level of understanding of the world, some phenomena that seem to be very common now, in ancient times they will be exaggerated into demons or miracles, even if science is highly developed today, there are still some phenomena that cannot be explained by science, I believe that this is not because there are really gods and demons, but the field of scientific exploration is not enough, in the years to come, we will be able to find out the answer to all the mysteries through scientific means. "
I asked again: "Then the queen of the Elite Kingdom can turn people into disappears with her eyes, how should we understand this matter in today's world where science and civilization are very developed?" "
Shirley Yang said: "Mr. Hu, I don't know if you have heard of a sensational incident in the United States. At the Center for Special Phenomena and Pathology Research in Kansas, USA, there was a peculiar patient, a twelve-year-old boy, who had a special ability since he was a child, staring at an object less than five centimeters in diameter for a long time, and the object would disappear, as if it had evaporated in the air. The neighbors saw the boy as an anomaly and said he was a youkai. His parents are also deeply troubled, so they hope that the relevant government departments can help them heal their child. "
It's strange, I've never heard of it, I don't know much about China, let alone the United States, what's going on with this disease? Sounds the same as the monster queen, but was the child cured in the end?
"After the research of scientists, it was found that the brain waves of this little boy are different from ordinary people, and his cranial nerves and optic nerves produce a kind of transport energy, which is connected to an imaginary space (undetectable space)," Shirley Yang said. This special ability accounts for 1 in 3 billion human beings, and finally a researcher found a way to make a magnetic helmet that was put on the little boy's head, and after a year, his special ability disappeared. At that time, the U.S. military had planned to secretly send the child to a military research institute, but this incident was revealed, causing an uproar among the people, and the military had to abandon this plan. "
After hearing this, I still muttered a little in my heart, the legendary evil queen is not as simple as that American child. I'm not afraid of death, but if we do find the Queen's tomb, what if she turns into a place where I don't know what it is? Anyway, let's take one step at a time, it's really dangerous, I'll use strong means to bring them back, who dares to disobey orders? Damn, I don't believe it, these intellectuals' arms are still twisted past my old Hu's thighs, and they are reversed.
After a long conversation, a lot of time was wasted, and the surrounding murals were studied. Let me ask Professor Chen, can we still see the contents of the coffin?