Vol 2 Chapter 21: Xiye Ancient City

The steam lamp hanging on the beam of the house was shaken by the strong wind blowing into the broken house, the light flickered, and the light in the broken house flickered, and the dark stone man was like a dead person buried alive, only showing his head, below All buried in the yellow sand.
When I walked closer, it turned out that in the eyes of the stone man, there was a big ant lying on his back, as big as a knuckle, his body was black, his tail was blood red, and the faint light of the steam lamp flashed a faint light. Seen from a distance, it is like the eyes of a stone man flashing.
I saw that it was just an ant, so I flicked it to the ground, stepped on it, and stepped on the foot, only heard Gaba whisper in my ear, and stepped on a rotten, slightly strange thing, this big ant's body compared to Common ants are much harder.
I looked around, and there was a lot of wind in the broken house. I didn't know where this ant crawled in. Shirley Yang came over and asked me what was going on. I said nothing, but there was an ant that made me trample on.
I woke up the fat man who was asleep, let him go to the whistle, and then added some solid fuel to the fire to make the fire more vigorous, turned off the steam lamp, and got into the sleeping bag to sleep.
I was tired and soon fell asleep. When I woke up, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning. The sandstorm outside had been blowing all night, and I had never stopped. It was just a lot less than the previous wind. The devilish sandstorm is finally over.
A large part of the ruins of the ancient city has fallen into the yellow sand, and there are not many parts exposed on the ground. There are two such large sands. I am afraid that this unknown ancient city will disappear into the desert, but even if it is completely buried by the yellow sand Living does not mean that it will be buried forever. Taklimakan is more than half a mobile desert. It moves with the strong wind. I do n’t know how many years it will see the sun again.
Hao Aiguo was instructing the students to dig the stone man in the corner of the wall. They had dug the stone man ’s thighs, and everyone was watching. Only An Liman took advantage of the weakened wind and went out to look after the camels hiding under the city wall.
I took some dry food from my bag and watched them dig soil while eating. This time I followed the archaeological team into the desert. Besides trying to see if there were any large tombs, I also wanted to learn some archaeological experience from these experts.
They were afraid of damaging the carvings on the stone men. They only used engineer shovel to dig out the surrounding sand, and then used a flat shovel and brush to clean up a little bit, dig out a part, clean up a part, and make various records at the same time.
When Professor Chen saw me awake, he nodded and greeted me. It seemed that his health was all right. He told me that this time is to let students practice their hands and add some internship experience. Although the study of theoretical knowledge is important, but the field of archaeology is also very important. On-site internship is also very important. The feelings will be much faster when combined with the theory.
It did n’t take long for the students to clear the base of the stone statue. I saw this giant pupil stone statue for the first time. The statue was dressed in a husky suit, with his arms hanging down and many patterns carved on his body. It seemed to be some kind of Tantra scripture. . According to Professor Chen, these words have never been cracked, but with the expansion of the field of archaeological research in recent years, experts believe that this should be some kind of symbol or secret code, which records some ancient religious information. As for why these symbols were carved on the stone man, it may be related to the sacrifice. However, there are no relevant documents, murals, historical records and other materials, and these are only speculations until now.
Sa Dipeng listened to the professor's explanation and asked: "Professor, the shape of this stone man is very different from that of ordinary people. I think there is such a possibility. There is a religion that worships aliens in ancient times. They have seen aliens. After the people, they thought they were gods, so they created some stone people to worship. The symbols on these stone people are an alien language. "
Hao Aiguo immediately criticized him: "Xiao Sa, you usually study very hard, how many times have you told you, you are a very clever child, don't use your brains in crooked places, how can even aliens come out ? Treat history and archaeology seriously. "
Professor Chen was not angry, but instead showed a kind smile: "Imagination is not a bad thing, young people, active thinking, is very good. Unity and tension, serious and lively, this is not contradictory. However, we archeology, study history, It is necessary to follow a principle, make bold assumptions, and cautiously verify. Imagination should be based on the basis of reality, and imagination without evidence is not reliable. Let ’s take this giant pupil stone statue, ancient people like it Judging from the astronomical phenomenon to judge the good and bad fortune, when they look at the starry sky at night, will they want to see their eyes farther? When making stone statues, will this desire be added? This possibility Sex is very high, and some statues have been unearthed in Sanxingdui, Sichuan. The eyes are extended long. Conservatively speaking, this is very likely to be an expression of the ancients' desire to explore. "
When I heard this, I couldn't help but admire, or the professor is of a good level, and he doesn't take the road to suppress people. Compared with the realm of Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo is much worse.
Professor Chen continued: "The aliens you mentioned are not impossible. It does not mean that the mention of aliens means fictional scientific fantasy in foreign novels. In fact, the earliest records of aliens still appear in us. In ancient Chinese notes and murals. As early as 7,500 years ago, the image of astronauts wearing space suits appeared in the original tribal murals of Helan Mountain. They walked out of a large disc, surrounding animals and residents Scattered and fleeing, these are probably not imaginable by humans at the time. They should be a mural of record nature that records major disasters and events. Similar situations are found in the Zhou Xia period and some ancient books. There are records ... "
At this time, An Liman jumped back from the hole in the roof with the wind and sand, and told everyone that the sandstorm was about to pass. Within half an hour, the sky would clear, all blessed by God, the sand was almost engulfing the outer wall If we scrape for another two hours, we will be buried alive today.
Everyone was still a bit worried. Although the wind was small, I didn't know when to stop. With the words of An Liman, I completely put down my suspended heart. The students listened intently to Professor Chen's lecture. I made a pot of tea on the fire and prepared to let everyone finish drinking.
The tea just boiled, and the people around the giant pupil stone portrait suddenly screamed in unison and all jumped back. Some people shouted: "Ah ... why so many big ants?" Some people shouted: "Ouch! There are also here! "
I hurried to see it, and saw that the sand at the foot of the stone man raised a large bag, and countless large ants poured out like a fountain. Some people used a shovel to shoot. One hundred shots were killed, but at the same time they came out of the sand. Thousands. It was so dense that it seemed that the scalp was tight.
At first I thought that they dug sand to dig the ant nest, but immediately found out that this was not the case, there were more than a dozen large holes in the ground, more and more ants crawled out of it, each of them was a dark body, The red tail, red and black, is countless like the tide of the dike.
An Liman only glanced at it, turned his head and ran out. The fat man and others wanted to use the shovel to shoot. At this moment, the ants were too many to start.
Shirley Yang is a photographer at National Geographic magazine. She has been to many places and has a lot of knowledge. She only heard her anxiously shouting to everyone: "Everyone is climbing out of the roof. This is a desert marching ant. Just slow down. It was bitten into a bone shelf. "
Tens of thousands of desert marching ants have filled half of the house, and the underground has been crawling out more and more, not only underground, on the beams of the houses, in the walls, everywhere. Professor Chen Yeyixin Several people were so shocked by this horrifying situation that their feet were soft, and where did they go a half step.
Not to mention the intellectuals, even the fat man and I were trembling all over. These desert marching ants are so terrible. Maybe the original human bone in the house is their masterpiece, no wonder there is no flesh left.
I tried to calm myself down. When I looked at the people around me, I found that the old guy An Liman had escaped first. The old fritters ran away when they saw the danger. Yesterday, I vowed to share with us.
Seeing the slapping of the engineer's shovel could not stop the desert marching ants in the general tide, I kicked over the fire making tea and poured out all the solid fuel in the semi-iron pot, forming a fire wall in the house, which hit the fire wall The ant colony was immediately scorched, slightly blocking the march of the desert marching ants.
Those desert marches have too many ants, and without hesitation rushed to the wall of fire, trying to use the number to suppress the flame, thanks to the solid fuel is very flammable, but it is only a matter of time before the ant colony is suppressed.
Using this time, we took out the luggage equipment we could take, and even pulled out of the broken house. The sand outside was very small. I saw hundreds of yellow sheep, wild camels, sand wolves, gerbils, Yi Xi ran through the ruins of the ancient city. Not only the big house where we were just now, but desert march ants appeared in many places. Some animals ran a little slower and were immediately covered by desert march ants.
Desert marching ants contain a lot of formic acid in their mouths, and thousands of them bite together, even elephants can't bear it. Some sand wolves and yellow sheep fall to the ground. After the desert marching ants, they only have a pile of white bones. Too.
There are more than ten million desert marching ants in this city. It seems that the entire ancient city is a huge ant nest. We are trapped on the roof, and we can only use the engineering shovel to sweep down the marching ants.
Under the wall in the distance, An Liman was busy untiring the ropes that tied the camel, and I threw the rifle to the fat man: "Hit him hat."
The fat man raised his rifle, and without any hesitation aimed at An Liman and pulled the trigger. With a "snap", An Liman's leather hat was hit by a bullet and frightened him, shrinking his neck and looking back at the people on the roof .
I shouted to him: "Old man, if you dare to run, you will hit your with the second shot. Hu Da certainly has no opinion."
An Liman waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that he would not run away. But the house is already covered with desert marching ants. We ca n’t go down for the time being, and we ca n’t do it on the roof. I just ignored the place, but saw a broken wall crashing down and a big lamb-like ant crawled out of it. .
This is a queen, with six pairs of transparent wings growing on her body. It may be due to a sandstorm attack that alarmed the queens hiding deep in the nest. It is preparing to migrate.
Seeing the queen queen's momentum, the archaeologists' faces changed, and Shirley Yang shouted, "The thief captures the king first, and quickly shoots to kill it."
The fat man patted the sports air rifle in his hand and stomped his feet in anxiety: "This gun is too small for fucking." Even though he said that, he fired and fired all the remaining bullets in the magazine. To the queen.
I took off the scarf for the wind and sand, wrapped all the remaining solid fuel with the scarf, and took out the lighter to ignite the corner of the scarf as a fire bomb hit the queen beneath from the roof.
This trick actually received a strange effect. The fire took advantage of the wind to surround the giant queen's body. The queen was eating pain, struggling to roll on the sand, and the fire burned more and more. This kind of compressed fuel can burn for more than ten minutes with just one point, not to mention that most of these barrels are about one kilogram. As the fire burned, the ants around the desert march exploded and rushed to the queen, desperately, hoping to put out the flames by number.
I saw the opportunity came and waved to everyone, carrying the engineer shovel to jump down the broken house and disperse the scattered desert marching ants. The big man Chu Jian carried Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo and Ye Yixin waited for each other to help each other. A group of people rushed out of the breach.
At this time, An Liman had controlled the frightened camel group. Everyone climbed on the camel and urged the camel team to run out of the city. From time to time, there were various beasts passing by. No one cares about anyone at that time, and they all flee desperately.
The camel ran hundreds of meters, and I looked back. The ruined ruins of the ancient city were no longer visible. Countless desert marching ants, like the red and black seawater boiling in the pot, boiled out from the ground. But as long as they are not surrounded by this group of ants, there is no danger.
An Liman explained that he wanted to go out first, to untie the camel's rope, or to prevent the ant colony from chewing the camels into bones.
The fat man didn't believe it, and pointed his thumb at the rifle on his back: "You don't tell me, if you want to explain it later, explain it with my gun."
An Liman ’s reason seems to be very good, and he cannot be considered to have left the crowd to escape alone. In the future, there are still many places in the desert where he cannot be separated from him. I do n’t want to fall down with him, so I stop the fat man from letting him continue. said.
I said to An Liman: "We saw the auspicious white camel in the desert together, and escaped the siege of the desert marching ants. This is Hu Da ’s will. His old man thinks that we are brothers and are devout believers. So we all believe you, those who betrayed friends and brothers, General Assembly Hu punishes him. "
An Limanlian claimed to be: "Praise God, Hu Da is the only true God. We are all good friends and brothers. God will surely bless us."
Even if this small, shocking and dangerous episode is over, who knows the depths of the sand sea in the ancient city of Xiye, and what troubles are waiting for us, 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 Xiye. The wind has stopped, and the fireball-like sun is hanging in mid-air. The most important thing when walking in the desert is to keep enough water for yourself. It is a taboo to rush to the road during the day, but our water is still very sufficient. You can replenish the fresh water when you arrive at Xiye City, so you are in the desert with a burning sun. Move forward.
In the desert during the day, there is another scenery. In the ancient times, the orogenic movement of the Himalayas formed the Tarim Basin. The entire terrain of Xinjiang is like a big bowl with a bowl of golden yellow sand. Nine of us The camel team of 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 sand.
The desert is boundless and borderless. If it is not the long footprints behind it, you ca n’t even feel that you are advancing constantly. I really admire those explorers who have entered the desert Gobi desert alone. Maybe they can only walk alone in the world. Only then will they experience the true meaning of life. I admire the admiration, do I not intend to do so in my life, or the collective life suits me.
Sa Dipeng and others were very curious. When walking, Shirley Yang said about desert marching ants. Shirley Yang had not seen it before, but had only seen villages where desert marching ants ransacked. The bones are terrible.
This ant colony is called marching ants because they have a high degree of organizational discipline and are dominated by soldier ants. If compared with the human army, in addition to maneuverability and firepower, well-trained human army The ability to coordinate organizations cannot be compared to desert marching ants.
They walked and said that the sand dunes at their feet were high and low, and the degree of fluctuation was unprecedented. An Liman said that these dense sand dunes were all ancient cities engulfed by yellow sand. The south side tells you that there is our middle station-the ruins of the ancient city of Xiye.
I raised my telescope and looked to the south, an oasis in the hinterland of the sand sea, with a panoramic view.
The oasis in the desert is like an emerald decorated on a gold plate. From a distance, a black city remains standing in it.
The ruins of Xiye City are well preserved, and the city is relatively late in age. It was destroyed by war until the end of the Tang Dynasty and has been abandoned to this day. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, German explorers discovered this place and plundered most of the cultural relics such as murals and statues in the ruins.
In the desert, only this empty city, the oldest ancient Peacock River channel, ends here. Since the city has been through the groundwater veins from ancient times to the present, it has become an important supply point for travelers in the desert.
The camel team descended the Dasha Mountain and slowly moved towards the oasis. An Liman negotiated with me. After two days of rest in the West Night City, he entered the Black Desert. It was not easy to turn back in these days. He also carried a large number of supplies, and had to raise his feet to start again.
This remark is exactly what I want. I can't stop for a few days, so I can find an excuse to persuade the archaeological team to go home, and don't find any fine ancient city. Just dig two pits nearby and wander around. Recently, I feel more and more powerless, and then go deeper into the desert. Sooner or later, something big will happen. By that time, I am afraid that I will not be as lucky as the previous few.
I slowed down the camel's footsteps and rode with Professor Chen. I said to him: "Professor, let's go into the West Night City and take a rest for three or five days or five or six days before we set off? Tired, if we do n’t let them rest enough, we ’ll have to reopen the 11th. "
Professor Chen was puzzled and asked, "What ... Eleventh? How to open?"
I said, "Professor, why don't you even know the eleventh, just walk on two legs." I used to imitate walking on two legs. "Isn't this the eleventh?"
Professor Chen laughed: "Brother Hu, why are you so many fresh words? It's really interesting. Well, let's fix it up for a few days. I also want to investigate and inspect the remains of this famous city."
On the sand hill, it was not far from the oasis, but it took only three hours to arrive. The city walls are made of black stones. Some areas have collapsed and weathered, and they have been damaged very badly. Only the main city among them is quite strong, and the glorious weather of the year is still faintly visible. Some oil well workers, expeditions, and geological exploration teams pass by here and stay in the main city, blocking the door with stones, so they don't have to worry about the wolves attacking.
Since the mid-1970s, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia have carried out vigorous wolves fighting activities. Large-scale wolves have completely disappeared, leaving only three to five wolves, or lone wolves acting alone. What's more, we are crowded and have guns, so we don't have to worry about wolves.
It was the monsoon season, and no one else came here except us, so he found a spacious room in the main city, lit a campfire, and cooked tea.
An Liman and I found the ancient well in the city. It is said that this well has not dried up for thousands of years. An Liman said that this is a miracle of Hu Da. I am not sure about this. A bucket of well water was hit with a leather bucket. The well was very deep. Only a few tens of meters of long rope was heard before I heard the sound of falling water. After taking it out, I took a sip. It was cold and cold. The irritability of the sun suddenly disappeared, and I couldn't speak comfortably.
Place the camels of the nineteen peaks by the well, drink them one by one, take out the salt croissants for them, and then pick up two large barrels of well water and return to the room where the archaeologists rested.
These people were so tired that they fell to the ground and fell asleep. Some people were still half bitten in their mouths and fell asleep after eating half. I did not disturb them, and these days are enough for them to suffer.
After boiling a large pot of water, Professor Chen and others were awakened one by one, forcing them to scald their feet with hot water, and then burst the bubbles on their feet.
After all this was busy, I went to sleep, and fell asleep for a whole day and night, my tired body finally recovered, and everyone sat around at night listening to fat bragging.
The fat man's mouth is hanging in the river, telling everyone how rich the product is in the old forest in the northeast, how delicious the mountain treasure is, how like this desert, except the sand is sand, the wind is strong, and only a yellow sheep eats a bite, all eat a mouthful of sand particle. Especially the Xing'an Mountains, big and small, have everything delicious. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that sticking a roe deer to scoop fish and pheasant flying into the rice pan. Can you imagine a free life for hunters?
Several students had a lot of experience, and they all made the fat man silly. Sa Dipeng pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked curiously: "Brother Wang, what is a stick to roe deer? Do you hit with a stick?"
The fat man said, "Glasses, it's very easy to learn to see you, so I tell you, that is, you walk in the mountains, grab a stick, and swipe to kill the roe deer. If you use a scoop in the river, you can fish blindly. If you catch a big fat fish, it means that the product is rich. "
Shirley Yang snorted and dismissed what the fat man said: "The desert also has the benefits of the desert. The types of animals and plants in the desert are not less than those in the forest. And the Taklimakan Desert is at the lowest point of the basin, but in a sense , Here is a peak of ancient civilization, what else in the forest besides wild deer and bear? "
I was afraid that the two of them would fight and hurriedly said that there was a lady in the house. Our brothers and sisters went out to smoke a cigarette and talked about pulling the fat man outside.
The moon and the sky are picturesque, the stars are bright, and the ground shines with silver. I lit a cigarette for the fat man and advised him to give Shirley Yang more. The fat man said that of course I can't know her generally. They Americans are not sensible, let's not understand, let alone a female generation. If he was a man, he would screw his head down and kick the ball.
I laughed: "Yes, yes, who are you, urinating the urine can make the gray ground burrow into a big hole, you must have a large number of adults, don't pull Shirley Yang's head off, or Who are we going to pay for that? Twenty thousand dollars, that is not a small amount. "
With a few words of laughter, I raised my head and vomited a smoke ring. I saw giant star, left auxiliary star, right bi star in the sky, Samsung shining, arranged in a regular triangle, the center sun star, lunar star appeared, good one Set of dry gold stars.
I have never studied the celestial feng shui carefully before, but I just read it several times just to get some money from the archaeological team. At this time, the contents of the sky scroll in the mysterious feng shui immediately appeared in my mind.
I quickly ran back to the house, took the compass, and climbed to the top of the tower, against the stars in the sky, the place where the auspicious stars shrouded, was at the ancient well in the city. This is the first time I have practiced astrological Feng Shui, and I have no idea, but most of you will not misread it. This "Sixteen-character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" in my family is not a vulgar thing. So that means there must be an ancient tomb near the groundwater vein? The tomb is said to hold water, but whether it is too close.
Anyway, this is a major discovery. I have to tell the archaeological team about this matter. It is best if they find something here and gain something. Maybe they will not have to enter the Black Desert.
Listening to me, Professor Chen was overjoyed and rushed to the edge of the well with the students, and Zhang Luo wanted to go down and see. The railings and nooses of this well were later reinstalled. It was not known when they were destroyed before.
Shirley Yang and I discussed it. The well was deep, and we could make a double-buckle safety lock and hang people down to see what was there.
That can only be me. Although there are water veins below, I still dare not care, put on a gas mask, flashlight, whistle, engineer shovel, dagger, secretly hide the black donkey hoof and touch gold charm, reached out and tried the sturdiness of the rope, to discuss good contact The way is, if the flashlight is shaken up three times, the person above will stop and no longer put the rope; the second shake of the flashlight is to pull it up. In order to prevent accidents, it also carries a whistle. If the flashlight is not visible Light, just use a whistle to communicate.
At this time, it was night, except for the light from the flashlight, it was dark all around, and I could n’t see where the wellhead was when looking up. The deeper and deeper, the night temperature in the desert was very low, plus the humidity in the well, it made people feel from It's cold inside and out.
The wall of the well is slippery and difficult to settle. It is said that this ancient well is much older than Xiye City. It was Xiye City that had this well before it was later. Suddenly a cool wind blew, and I hurriedly took photos with a flashlight, and saw a stone door on the wall of the well.
I pointed at the top of my head, whistled and shook the flashlight. It was not far from the wellhead. It was only fifteen or six meters deep. As long as I spoke loudly, the people above could hear it. When they received the signal, they immediately stopped putting the rope again, and I just hung a little below the stone gate.
The cold wind was blown out of the gap in the stone door. I pushed it with my hand. I felt that the stone door was very thick and there was no stone lock and stone bolt. Although the gap was large, it could not be pushed. It needed a crowbar to open it.
When I couldn't see it, I sent a second signal to let them pull me up. I gave a detailed account of the situation in the underground. Professor Chen said: "Strange, this may not be a mausoleum, it is a secret road or something. How can there be a mausoleum to be repaired by the well and leave such a mysterious passage?"
The fat man volunteered: "It doesn't matter what he is, it's boring to guess, let's go in and see. You get me down, I'll pry open the stone door."
I said, "Forget it, I'll go down with a crowbar. You are too heavy, fat man. If the rope breaks down, we have to go down the well and fish you."
This time we made a rope ladder, so that when the stone door is opened, anyone who wants to go can climb down from the rope ladder. The people who finally decided to go were Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, Sa Dipeng, and me. Fatty and others stayed on it. .
I still go down first and use a crowbar to pry the stone door. It seems that the door was often opened and closed, otherwise there would be no such gaps, but it may not have been opened in the last few hundred years, and it will not work on the rope ladder. It took a lot of effort to open the door.
Behind the stone door is a brick-and-stone corridor, spacious and neat, and the dark lacquer inside is unfathomable. I greeted Shirley Yang above them to come down and pulled the three people into the corridor one by one.
Shirley Yang gave everyone a pill that he could prevent hypoxia, then put on a gas mask and walked inside without fail.
The four of them walked in for about fifty meters. They passed two stone doors in succession, and the last door was tightly sealed. The stone door was embossed with unknown beasts, and the dead animal skin was stuck on the door seam. The skin was cut off piece by piece before the door could be opened.
When we reached the end, we entered a spacious and dry stone room with a length and width of about 60 to 70 meters and a height of three meters. The four people standing inside did not appear cramped at all.
Although this space is spacious, the atmosphere is never relaxed. There are bones on the ground, and there is no place to find the feet. Seeing those bones are animals, they are extremely loose. They will break when you step on them. There are dozens of wooden pillars standing around and tied up. With an air-dried human corpse, it looks like a full-length man.
Professor Chen and Shirley Yang and I have been practicing for a long time, but I feel that this place is cryptic and I do n’t feel afraid. Only Sa Dipeng was so scared to see so many corpses, he was so scared that he could n’t even speak. Where did the professor go? Wherever you go, don't dare to stay away in one step.
Shirley Yang looked at the corpses and sighed, "It's really miserable, it's all people like slaves or prisoners who are martyrdom. It's too brutal."
Professor Chen said to everyone: "It seems that this is the place where sacrifices are held for important deceased people. This is the custom of Gu Mo in ancient times. These individuals are criminals. They were tied to the desert and thirsty to die. They were only dried until they were completely dried. Here, then the blood of the slaughtered animals was spilled on these corpses. Let's find out, there should be a tomb here. "
We turned around and looked around. There were stone walls on all sides. After a few taps, it was obviously solid. There would be no other space behind.
It was still Shirley Yang who was careful and found that there was a problem with the floor of the stone room. I shoved the broken bones from the ground, and a large slab with reliefs was exposed on the ground, and there were two pull tabs at each end.
I greeted Sa Di Peng to help me pull up the stone slab and saw him shaking all over the body and couldn't help but laugh, so he let him go back the same way, so as not to scare his trousers here, and to replace Hao Aiguo by the way, he must be Interested in this strange tomb.
Sa Dipeng seemed to have an amnesty, and hurried back, Professor Chen was very angry and funny: "Ah, this child, the courage is too small, not the archaeological materials."
Shirley Yang and I pulled together the stone slab on the ground, then threw a cold firework, and illuminated the lower part. I saw a burial chamber about the same size as the upper part with a square coffin in the middle. The difference between the coffin and the mainland is a little too big, without any decorative patterns, nor rectangular, square and square, but like a big box.
Don't say that I haven't seen this form of tomb and coffin, but with Professor Chen's profound knowledge, I can't see the truth. This is probably a form of ancient national tombs that has long been lost. It is largely influenced by the Han culture, but it is plausible that adding a lot of own culture is really rare.
At this time, Hao Aiguo came with Chu Jian. When he saw the scene, he was so excited that he flashed his eyes and put on a gas mask. He jumped the first one. Look here, look there. Too. I always thought he was a serious and old-fashioned person. I didn't think that he was like a child at this time. Now he is just dancing and scratching his ears.
We also descended into the bottom burial chamber one after another. When we looked around, we couldn't help but say "ah". The four walls of the burial chamber are all exquisite color murals.
Professor Chen was so excited when he saw one of these pictures: "This ... what is recorded in this painting is related to Jingguo."
The thing I want to see most is the valuable funerary items. This coffin is not small. Maybe there is something good in it. Although they cannot take it away as a professor, they can also open their eyes. I now feel that the tomb of a nobleman is more luxurious than that of the general tomb of Heifengkou.
But Professor Chen was looking at the murals in the tomb, and ignored the coffin in the middle. I had to wait patiently and only listened to Professor Chen telling Hao Aiguo about these murals.
The previous paintings show that the tomb owner was a prince of Gu Mo during his lifetime. Gu Mo was a sublime country, and he was oppressed. Every year, he presented a large number of treasures and cattle and sheep slaves. He once asked the fine queen to ask his subjects Free, went three times in a row, and never saw the Queen's face.
This painting probably said that he was not reconciled. The brave prince was the incarnation of the Sun God of War. He dived alone into Jing Jing who wanted to assassinate the evil queen, but found a big secret.
I listened to and listened to the professor's words. I was curious what the secret was. I walked over to listen to the professor's commentary with Shirley Yang and others.
Professor Chen walked to the next mural and watched it carefully for a long time: "This is very weird. You see this painting where the prince is hiding in the corner and snooping. The face of the exquisite queen is covered in all the murals. The veil, the queen in this picture only has a back view, she lifted the veil with one hand, and the person on the opposite side, like a slave or the like, became a shadow ... disappeared? "
I was confused and wanted to ask in detail, but Shirley Yang said, "This queen is ... a monster."
"Monster?" Professor Chen froze for a moment, 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 high painting skills and a gorgeous and vivid composition. It narrates the important deeds of the life of the king and ink king. Although there are no text annotations, the characteristics are very distinctive."
I listened carefully while listening to her analysis of the murals. Indeed, as she said, the characters, costumes, architecture, and appearance in the murals are brilliant. If you have an understanding of Western culture, you can use the information in the painting to roughly grasp the painting. The background of the event recorded in.
Just listening to Shirley Yang continued: "The mural you just said is the most difficult to understand among all the murals. In the painting, the queen unveiled the veil that was always covering her face. It turned into a dotted line. The characters in all the murals are realistic, only the person who saw the queen ’s face turned into a dotted line, and only a faint outline was drawn. From this only outline, We ca n’t see the identity of this character, we can only speculate that this dashed character is a slave or an assassin, and an enemy that the queen wants to get rid of. "
I heard that I could n’t help but ask,
Miss Yang, what do you mean ... this man in the painting has disappeared after seeing the queen ’s face?

Shirley Yang said: "Mr. Hu said the same, if I use my words to explain, I will say that the queen's eyes looked at this person, this person disappeared."
I shook my head and smiled bitterly: "Big Living, it's gone at a glance? It disappeared? This ... this is too ... incredible, it's hard to understand it without telling me."
Professor Chen seemed to understand Shirley Yang's meaning and motioned her to continue.
Shirley Yang said: "Although I only speculated, I didn't talk about it out of thin air. My father likes to read a book called" The Story of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty ", which was written by a monk Xuan Zang of the Tang Dynasty. I have read it several times. There are many legends of the ancient Western Regions recorded in the book, some are myths and legends, and many are real events. Among them is a legend of the desert queen. In the depths of the desert, there is a city in which a people from the underground lives. They conquered and ruled other small neighboring countries. After hundreds of years, the throne passed to a queen. It is said that the queen ’s eyes are the channel connecting the underworld. As long as she looks at her enemy, the other party will disappear from nowhere. There is no trace, and it will never come back. Where did the disappeared people go, I am afraid that only those people will know. The queen adopts high-pressure rule, and she wants all the people in neighboring countries to worship her as a true god, all who rebel All people were skinned and executed alive, perhaps her actions angered God, and the Queen was suffering from a strange disease without frustrating for a few years.
"The slaves are most afraid of the queen. As soon as she dies, the slaves and the surrounding countries oppressed by the queen form a coalition, and the queen's city is washed by blood. The coalition is about to destroy the queen's tomb. The terrible wind and sand engulfed the king city and the coalition forces together, and the queen ’s tomb and countless treasures she collected were buried under the yellow sand. After hundreds of years, the desert flow made the king city see the sky again, and some travelers passed there. As long as they take any point in the city, they will cause a desert storm, smoke clouds will suddenly rise, the road will be lost, and those who have the Queen ’s treasure will never be able to leave.
"But there is no clear record in the legendary mysterious king city, evil queen, and chronological background. I saw the mural in the tomb here today. Compared with the ancient legend, the two have many similarities. The place makes people think that it is not only a legend, but maybe something like this has happened in the dusty history. "
Shirley Yang let everyone see the next few murals: "The reason why we are sure that the queen in the painting is the exquisite queen, because of the special costumes of the exquisite people, as well as the unique and unique buildings and decorations, these These are the strongest evidences. Professor, Mr. Hu, you can see the several murals behind, which proves the reliability of my inferences. The meaning of these murals is very clear. The prince ’s assassination was unsuccessful. After removing the queen, the prince met a fortune teller from a distant country. The fortune teller asked the prince to hide the special chronic poison in the golden lamb meat, and then paid tribute to the queen. Sure enough, the queen suddenly came News. At the same time, the prince also died prematurely due to overwork. He and his beloved wife were buried together. The fortuneteller designed a mausoleum and buried them under the altar of the holy well. "
It turned out that the tomb was built first, and then the tomb was repaired, and the events recorded in the mural were tied to the legend in that book. Professor Chen saw that Shirley Yang was a photographer, but after all, he was born in an archaeological family and has a family history. The old classmates have women, so they are very pleased. At that moment, I remembered the old friend who was missing in the depths of the desert.
Shirley Yang said to the professor: "You take care of your body, don't be too sad. This time we have gained a lot, and we have made a breakthrough in understanding the ruins of Jingjie. I believe that we will be able to find the ancient city of Jingju soon. My father has spirits in heaven, and he can look away. "
I secretly groaned. I wanted to find an ancient tomb and let them turn around. I didn't expect anything to go against it. Seeing this situation, it would be useless to persuade them. I knew that I had pretended to be invisible.
I suddenly remembered that Shirley Yang said that the Queen of Jingjue was a monster, so I asked, "Miss Yang, I remember talking about it before I heard from you. The Queen is the first beauty in the Western Regions. When the stars saw the sun, they were ashamed. Why did she say that she was a monster? If she were a monster, would n’t we go to her tomb to die? "
Shirley Yang said: "These things are legends, and our inferences may not necessarily be true. Archaeology is like this. Legends, records, and unearthed antiquities, plus scholars' speculation, the more these things, the more The closer it is to the truth of history. But what we can do is to get closer to the truth indefinitely, and no history can be restored. In ancient times, humankind ’s knowledge of the world was very low, and some phenomena that now seem to be ordinary In ancient times, it will be exaggerated into monsters, ghosts, or miracles. Even today, when science is highly developed, there are still some phenomena that cannot be explained by science. I believe this is not because there are really gods and demons, but the field of scientific exploration. Not enough, in the years to come, we will be able to find out the answers to all the mysteries through scientific methods. "
I asked again: "Then the Queen of the Exquisite Kingdom can make people disappear with the eyes. How can we understand this matter today when science and civilization are well developed?"
Shirley Yang said: "Mr. Hu, I do n’t know if you have heard of a sensational incident in the United States. At the Special Phenomenon and Pathology Research Center in Kansas, a strange patient once appeared. A boy of age, he has a special function since childhood, staring at an object less than five centimeters in diameter for a long time, this object will disappear, as if evaporating in the air. The neighbors regarded the boy as alien, saying he was a monster . His parents are also deeply troubled, so he hopes that relevant government departments can help them cure their children. "
This is amazing. I have never heard of it. I do n’t know much about China, let alone the strange smell in the United States. What is going on with this disease? It sounds exactly like the monster queen. Was the child finally cured?
Shirley Yang said: "After research by scientists, it was found that the brain wave of this little boy is different from ordinary people. His brain nerve and visual nerve produce a kind of carrying energy, which is connected to an imaginary space (undetectable space). The proportion of this special function in humans is one part in three billion, and finally a researcher found a way. They made a magnetic helmet and put it on the little boy ’s head. One year later, his The special function disappeared. At that time, the US military planned to secretly send the child to the military research institute, but the incident was exposed, causing a stir in the public, and the military had to give up the plan. "
After hearing this, I still whispered in my heart, that the legendary evil queen, I am afraid that it is not as simple as that American child. I ’m not afraid of dying. If we really find the Queen ’s tomb, what if it ’s changed to a place where she does n’t know where? Anyway, let ’s take a step by step. It ’s really dangerous. I ’ll bring them back by tough means. Who dares not obey orders? I do n’t believe him, the arms of these intellectuals ca n’t be screwed over my old Hu ’s thighs, and they turned them back.
This long talk wasted a lot of time, and the surrounding murals were all studied. I asked Professor Chen, can we still read the contents of the coffin?