The gas lamp hanging on the beam was shaken by the strong wind that poured into the shabby house.
The light flickered, making the shabby house flicker in and out of light.
The dark stone man looked like a dead person buried alive, with only his head exposed and his lower body exposed.
All buried in the yellow sand.
When I got closer, I saw that there was a big ant lying on the stone man's eye, as big as a knuckle, with a black body and a blood-red tail.
When it was swayed by the light of the gas lamp, it flashed a faint light. , from a distance, it looks like the eyes of a stone man are shining.
When I saw it was just an ant, I flicked it to the ground and stepped on it.
I only heard a soft crunching sound in my ears and it was crushed to pieces.
What I found a little strange was that the body of this big ant was smaller than the size of the ant.
Ordinary ants are much tougher.
I looked around, and there was ventilation everywhere in the broken house.
I didn’t know where the ant crawled in.
Shiry Yang came over and asked me what was going on.
I said it was nothing, there was just an ant, and I stepped on it to death.
I woke up the sleeping fat man and asked him to go watch.
Then I added some solid fuel to the fire to make it burn brighter.
I turned out the gas light and got into my sleeping bag to sleep.
My body was tired and I fell asleep quickly.
When I woke up, it was already around nine o'clock in the morning the next day.
The sandstorm outside had been blowing all night and it didn't stop.
It was just that the wind was much weaker than before.
This time The devilish sandstorm is finally coming to an end.
A large part of the ruins of the ancient city has sunk into the yellow sand, and not much is exposed above the ground.
If there are two more large sandstorms, I am afraid that this unknown ancient city will disappear in the desert, but even if it is completely buried in the yellow sand Living in it does not mean that it will be buried forever.
Most of the Taklamakan is a mobile desert.
As the desert moves with strong winds, it is unknown how many years later it will see the light of day again.
Hao Aiguo was directing the students to excavate the stone figure in the corner.
They had already dug up the stone figure's thigh.
Everyone was watching.
Only An Liman took advantage of the wind to weaken and went out to look after the camels hiding under the city wall.
I took out some dry food from my bag and watched them digging while eating.
This time I followed the archaeological team into the desert.
In addition to seeing if there were any large ancient tombs, I also wanted to learn some archaeological experience from these experts.
They were afraid of damaging the carvings on the stone figures, so they only used engineering shovels to dig out the surrounding sand, and then used flat shovels and brushes to clean it bit by bit, digging out part of it and cleaning part of it, while also making various records.
When Professor Chen saw that I was awake, he nodded to me and said hello.
It seemed that his health was fine.
He told me that this time it is for students to practice their skills and gain some practical experience.
Although the study of theoretical knowledge is important, in the field of archeology, on-site internship is also very important.
Only by seeing, touching and doing things on site can you have an intuitive understanding.
The experience will be much faster when combined with theory.
After a while, the students cleaned up the base of the stone statue.
This was the first time I saw this kind of giant-eyed stone statue.
This stone statue was dressed in Hu clothes, with arms hanging down, and many patterns carved on the body, which seemed to be some kind of Tantric scripture. .
According to Professor Chen, these words have never been deciphered, but with the expansion of the field of archaeological research in recent years, experts believe that they should be some kind of symbols or codes, recording some ancient religious information.
As for why these symbols are carved on the stone figures, it may be related to sacrifices.
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However, there are no relevant documents, murals, historical records and other information.
So far, these are just speculations.
Sa Dipeng listened to the professor's explanation and asked for advice: "Professor, the shape of this stone man is very different from ordinary people.
I think it is possible.
In ancient times, there was a religion that worshiped aliens.
They have seen aliens.
After humans, they thought they were gods, so they made some of these stone figures to worship.
The symbols on these stone figures were in an alien language."
Hao Aiguo immediately criticized him: "Xiao Sa, you usually don't study hard.
How many times have I told you that you are a very smart child.
Don't use your brain in a wrong way.
Why did you even create aliens?"
Treat history and archeology seriously.”
Professor Chen was not angry, but showed a kind smile: "It is not a bad thing to have imagination.
It is good for young people to have active thinking.
It is not contradictory at all to be united and tense, serious and lively.
However, we do archaeology and study history.
That is, we must follow a principle, make bold assumptions, and verify cautiously.
Imagination must be based on reality.
Imagination without evidence is not reliable.
Let's take this giant eye stone.
For example, ancient people liked to judge good and bad luck through astronomical phenomena.
Whenever they looked at the stars at night, would they hope that their eyes could see farther?
When making stone statues, would they use this kind of The possibility of adding desire is very high.
Some statues have also been unearthed in Sanxingdui, Sichuan, with long eyes extending out.
Conservatively speaking, this is most likely an expression of the ancients' desire for exploration. " When I heard this, I couldn't help but be impressed.
The professor was still very capable and didn't bully others with big principles.
Compared to Professor Chen, Hao Aiguo was far behind.
Professor Chen continued: "The aliens you mentioned are not impossible.
The mention of aliens does not mean the fictional science fiction in foreign novels.
In fact, the earliest records of aliens appeared in our In ancient Chinese notes and murals, as early as 7,500 years ago, in the murals of primitive tribes in Helan Mountain, people wearing clothes appeared.
The image of astronauts in space suits, they walked out of a large disk, and the surrounding animals and residents fled in all directions.
These are probably not what humans could imagine with their imagination at the time.
It should be a picture recording major disasters and events.
Recording murals.
Similar situations are recorded in the tripods of the Zhou and Xia dynasties, as well as in some ancient books."
At this time, An Liman braved the wind and sand and jumped back from the hole in the roof, telling everyone that the sandstorm was almost over, and the sky would clear up in less than half an hour.
With the blessing of God, the sand had almost swallowed up the city wall outside. , if it had been scraped for two more hours, we would have been buried alive here today.
At first, everyone was a little worried.
Although the wind was lessening, they didn't know when it would stop.
After An Liman's words, they completely put their worries down.
The students listened attentively to Professor Chen's lecture.
I boiled a pot of tea on the fire and prepared for everyone to finish it and set off on their way.
The tea had just boiled when several people surrounding the giant-eyed stone statue suddenly screamed in unison and jumped back.
Some people shouted: "Why are there so many big ants?"
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Some people shouted: "Oh, there are some here too."
I hurriedly took a look and saw a big bump in the sand under the stone man's feet.
Countless big ants came out like a fountain.
Someone used a shovel to hit them, and they killed hundreds of them at once, but at the same time they popped up from the sand.
Thousands of them.
It's so densely packed that it makes one's scalp feel tight.
At first I thought they had dug the sand and dug up the ant nest, but I soon found out that was not the case.
More than a dozen large holes appeared on the ground, and more and more ants crawled out of them.
Each one had a dark body.
The red tails, red and black, are as countless as the tide on the embankment.
An Liman only glanced at it, turned around and ran out.
Fatty and others wanted to use the engineer shovel to take pictures.
At this moment, there were so many ants that it was impossible to start.
Shiry Yang is a photographer for National Geographic magazine.
She has been to many places and has seen a lot.
She shouted anxiously to everyone: "Everyone, climb out of the roof quickly.
These are desert army ants.
Walk slowly."
It was chewed into a skeleton."
Tens of thousands of desert army ants have filled half of the room, and more are crawling out of the ground, not only underground, but also on the beams, inside the walls, and everywhere.
Professor Chen, Ye Yixin and others were so frightened by this horrifying situation that their feet became weak and they could not even walk half a step.
Not to mention those intellectuals, even Fatty and I were trembling all over.
These desert army ants were so terrifying.
Maybe the original human skeleton in the house was their masterpiece.
No wonder there was no skin or flesh left.
I tried to calm myself down, and when I looked at the people around me, I found that old guy An Liman had escaped first by himself.
This old fritter ran away when he saw danger.
Yesterday he vowed to share the joys and sorrows with us.
Seeing that the blows of the engineer shovel could no longer stop the tide of desert army ants, I kicked over the fire where tea was boiling and poured out all the half-iron can of solid fuel, forming a wall of fire in the house.
The ant colony was immediately scorched, slightly blocking the progress of the desert army ants.
There were too many desert army ants, and they rushed towards the wall of fire without hesitation, trying to use their numbers to put out the flames.
Thanks to the strong burning properties of solid fuel, it was only a matter of time before they were wiped out by the ant colony.
Using this little time, we picked up the luggage and equipment we could carry and pulled them out of the hut.
The wind and sand outside were already very small, and we saw hundreds of yellow sheep, wild camels, sand wolves, gerbils, The mane was running around in the ruins of the ancient city.
Not only the big house we were in just now, but also patches of desert army ants appeared in many places.
Some animals ran a little slower and were immediately covered by desert army ants.
The mouths of desert army ants contain a lot of formic acid.
Thousands of them bite them together.
Even elephants can't bear it.
Some sand wolves and yellow sheep fall to the ground.
After the desert army ants pass by, they are left with only a pile of bones. .
There are tens of millions of desert army ants in this city.
It seems that the entire ancient city is a huge ant nest.
We are trapped on the roof and can only use the engineer shovel to sweep down the army ants that have climbed up.
Under the city wall in the distance, An Liman was busy untying the rope that tied the camel.
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I threw the rifle to the fat man and said, "Hit his hat."
The fat man raised his rifle, pointed it at An Liman and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
With a "pop" sound, An Liman's leather hat was hit by the bullet.
He shrank his neck in fright, and turned around to look at the people on the roof. .
I shouted to him: "Old man, if you dare to run, I'll spank you with the second shot.
Hu Da will definitely have no objection."
An Liman waved his hands repeatedly, signaling not to run away.
But the house was already covered with desert army ants.
We couldn't get out for the time being, and there was no way we could get on the roof.
Just as we were ignoring it, we saw a broken wall collapse, and a big lamb-like ant crawled out from it. .
This is a queen ant with six pairs of large transparent wings.
It may be that the sandstorm has alerted the queen hiding deep in the nest, and she is preparing to migrate.
Seeing the ant queen's momentum, everyone on the archaeological team's face changed color.
Shiry Yang shouted: "Catch the thief first, capture the king first, shoot and kill it quickly."
The fat man clapped the sports rifle in his hand and stamped his feet anxiously: "The caliber of this gun is too small, it can't fucking shoot."
Even so, he fired the gun and fired all the remaining bullets in the magazine.
Towards the queen ant.
I took off the scarf that was used to block the wind and sand, wrapped all the remaining solid fuel in the scarf, took out a lighter and lit the corner of the scarf, and used it as an incendiary bomb to hit the queen ant below from the roof.
This move had a miraculous effect.
The fire took advantage of the wind and surrounded the body of the huge queen ant.
The queen was in pain and struggled to roll on the sand.
The fire grew bigger and bigger.
This kind of compressed fuel can burn for more than ten minutes with just a little bit, not to mention that most of the barrels are about one kilogram.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, and all the surrounding desert army ants exploded their camps and rushed towards the queen regardless of their safety, hoping to extinguish the flames with their numbers.
Seeing the opportunity coming, I waved to everyone, jumped out of the broken house first with an engineering shovel, and dispersed the scattered desert army ants.
The big man Chu Jian carried Professor Chen on his back, Hao Aiguo, Ye Yixin and others supported each other.
The group of people rushed out from the breach.
At this time, An Liman had already controlled the frightened camels.
Everyone climbed on the camels and urged the camels to run out of the city.
There were various wild beasts passing by from time to time.
Usually they would fight to the death when they encountered each other.
This time At that time, no one could care about anyone else, and they all ran away as fast as they could.
The camel team ran hundreds of meters away.
When I looked back, I could no longer see the dilapidated ruins of the ancient city.
Countless desert army ants were tumbling and rolling like boiling red and black sea water, boiling and 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 camels.
Otherwise, the ants would chew the camels into bones and we would not be able to escape even if we wanted to.
He did not want to escape first.
The fat man didn't believe it and pointed his thumb at the rifle on his back: "Don't tell me.
If you want to explain in the future, just explain it to me."
An Liman's reasons seemed to be very good, and it could not be assumed that he left everyone behind and ran away alone.
There would be many places in the desert where I would not be able to do without him in the future.
I was unwilling to fall out with him, so I stopped the fat man and prevented him from continuing.
Said.
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I said to An Liman: "We saw the auspicious white camel together in the desert, and escaped the siege of the desert army ants.
This was all Hu Da's will.
He thinks that we are brothers, and we are all devout believers.
So we all believe in you.
Anyone who betrays his friends and brothers will be punished by Hu."
An Limanlian claimed: "Praise Allah, Hu Da is the only true God.
We are all the best friends and brothers.
Allah will definitely bless us."
Even if this minor and near-miss episode is over, who knows what troubles may be waiting for us in the depths of the sand sea in Xiye Ancient City.
I still have to find a way to persuade Professor Chen and the others to go back.
We are less than half a day away from the ruins of Xiye Ancient City.
The wind has stopped and the sun like a fireball hangs in the sky.
When traveling in the desert, the most important thing is to keep yourself hydrated.
It is a taboo to travel during the day, but we still have plenty of water.
We can replenish water when we arrive at Xiye City, so we brave the scorching sun in the desert. forward in.
The desert during the day has a different scenery.
In ancient times, the orogeny of the Himalayas formed the Tarim Basin.
The terrain of the entire Xinjiang is like a big bowl.
The bowl contains a bowl of golden sand, and the nine of us The camel team composed of nineteen camels is too small, and its proportion is less than one ten thousandth of a grain of sand in this bowl of golden sand.
The desert is vast and boundless.
If it weren't for the long footprints behind you, you wouldn't even feel that you are moving forward.
I really admire those explorers who enter the Gobi desert alone.
Maybe they can only walk alone in the world.
Only then will they experience the true meaning of life.
I admire you.
I don't plan to do that in this life, but collective life suits me.
Sa Di Peng and others were very curious and asked Shirey Yang to talk about desert army ants while walking.
Shirey Yang had never seen it with his own eyes before.
He had only seen villages looted by desert army ants.
People and animals were eaten until nothing was left.
The bones are terrible.
This type of ant colony is called army ants because they have a high degree of organizational discipline and are dominated by soldier ants.
Compared with the human army, in addition to mobility and firepower, the well-trained human army has The ability to coordinate and organize is simply not comparable to that of desert army ants.
As they walked, they talked about how the sand dunes under their feet were rising and falling, with unprecedented undulations.
An Liman said that under these dense sand dunes were ancient cities swallowed up by the yellow sand.
He led everyone up to the tallest big sand mountain, pointing out Heading to the south, we will tell you that there is the ruins of Xiye Ancient City, our intermediate station.
I raised my telescope and looked south.
I could see an oasis in the hinterland of the sand sea.
The oasis in the desert is like an emerald on a gold plate.
From a distance, the ruins of a black city stand among it.
The ruins of Xiye City are quite well preserved, and the city was relatively late.
It was not destroyed by war until the end of the Tang Dynasty and has been abandoned to this day.
In the early 19th century, German explorers discovered this place and looted most of the murals, statues and other cultural relics with artistic value in the ruins.
Only this empty city is left in the desert, and the oldest ancient Kongque River channel ends here.
Since the city has had underground water veins passing through it all year round, it has become an important supply point for travelers in the desert.
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The camel team descended from the Dasha Mountain and slowly moved towards the oasis.
An Liman and I discussed that we should rest for two more days in Xiye City before entering the Black Desert.
Once in, it would be difficult to turn back.
The camels were frightened these days.
Carrying a large amount of supplies, I had to strengthen my legs before setting off again.
This was exactly what I wanted.
I wished I could stay a few more days so that I could find an excuse to persuade the archaeological team to go back home.
Instead of looking for an exquisite ancient city, I just dug two pits nearby and wandered around.
Recently, I feel more and more powerless.
If I go deeper into the desert, something big will happen sooner or later.
By then, I'm afraid I won't be as lucky as I was in the past few times.
I slowed down the pace of the camel and rode side by side with Professor Chen.
I said to him: "Professor, let's enter Xiye City and rest for three to five days or five or six days before setting off again.
An Liman said that the camels are all tired."
If it’s broken, if we don’t give them enough rest, we’ll have to switch to No. 11.”
Professor Chen was puzzled and asked: "How do you open No. 11?"
I said, "Professor, why don't you even know No. 11?
You just walk on two legs."
After that, I used two fingers to imitate walking on two legs.
"Isn't this No. 11?"
Professor Chen laughed: "Brother Hu, you, oh, you, how come there are so many new words that are really interesting.
Okay, let's just repair it in there for a few days.
I also want to take a closer look at the ruins of this famous city."
It looked like it was not far from the oasis on the sand mountain, but it took a full three hours of walking to get there.
The city wall is made of black stones.
Some places have collapsed and weathered, and are very seriously damaged.
Only the main city in the middle is quite solid, and the glory of the past can still be vaguely seen.
Some oil well workers, expedition teams, and geological exploration teams passing through here stay overnight in the main city, blocking the door with stones so that they don't have to worry about attacks by wolves.
Since the mid-1970s, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet have carried out vigorous wolf hunting activities.
Large-scale wolf packs have been completely extinct, leaving only some small groups or lone wolves acting alone, which are not a problem.
Besides, there are many of us and we carry guns, so we don’t have to worry about wolves.
It was the windy season at this time, and no one else came here except us, so we found a spacious room in the main city, lit a campfire, ate and made tea.
An Liman and I found the ancient well in the city.
It is said that this well has never dried up for thousands of years.
An Liman said that this was Hu Da's miracle.
I didn't agree with this.
I used a leather bucket to bring up a bucket of well water.
The well was very deep.
I had to put dozens of meters of long rope before I could hear the sound of water falling.
After I brought it out, I took a sip.
It was cold and refreshing, refreshing my heart and spleen.
I was poisoned in the desert.
The anger caused by the sun disappeared immediately, and I felt indescribably comfortable.
He placed all nineteen camels next to the well, drank them one by one, and gave them salt croton cakes to eat.
Then he picked up two large buckets of well water and returned to the house where the archaeological team members were resting.
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These people were all exhausted and fell asleep on the ground.
Some of them still had half a piece of cake in their mouths and fell asleep after eating half of it.
I didn't disturb them, and they had suffered enough for the past few days.
After boiling a large pot of water, Professor Chen and others were woken up one by one, forcing them to scald their feet with hot water and then pop the blisters on their feet.
After all this work, I went to bed.
I slept drowsily for a whole day and night.
My tired body finally recovered.
In the evening, everyone sat around and listened to the fat man bragging.
The fat man was eloquent, telling everyone how rich the products were in the old forests of the Northeast and how delicious the mountain delicacies were.
How could it be like this desert, where everything but sand was sand, and the wind was so strong that even one bite of a yellow sheep would leave a mouth full of sand. particle.
Especially in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains, you can find all kinds of delicious food.
There is a saying from ancient times: sticks beat roe deer and gourds scoop out fish, and pheasants fly into the rice pot.
Can you imagine the free life of hunters?
The few students with little experience made Fatty Kan dumbfounded.
Sa Di Peng pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked curiously: "Brother Wang, what does it mean to beat a roe deer with a stick?"
The fat man said: "Glasses, I see you are very studious, so I will tell you.
That is to say, if you are walking in the mountains, you can pick up a stick and swing it casually and kill a roe deer.
You can also use a gourd in the river to fish blindly."
Catching big fat fish means the product is rich.”
Shiry Yang snorted and dismissed what the fat man said: "The desert also has its advantages.
The types of animals and plants in the desert are no less than those in the forest.
And although the Taklimakan Desert is at the lowest point of the basin, in a sense , this is a peak of ancient civilization, what else is there besides wild deer, dogs and bears in the forest?"
I was afraid that the two of them would start fighting, so I quickly told her that there was a lady in the room, and we two brothers were going out to smoke a cigarette.
While talking, I pulled the fat man outside.
The bright moon in the sky was like a picture, and the stars were like a brocade, illuminating the earth with a silvery light.
I lit a cigarette for the fat man and advised him to give in to the shirley poplar.
The fat man said that of course I can't be as knowledgeable as her.
They Americans are ignorant, so we can't be ignorant.
What's more, she is a female generation.
If she were a man, his head would have been screwed off and used as a football.
I smiled and said: "That's right, that's right.
Who are you?
You can make a big hole in the cement floor when you urinate.
You have to be a big man and don't rip off Shire Yang's head.
Otherwise Who can I ask for a salary of 20,000 US dollars?
That’s not a small amount.”
After joking for a while, I raised my head and blew out a smoke ring.
I saw the Jumen star, the left auxiliary star, and the right Bixing star in the sky.
The three shining stars were arranged in an equilateral triangle.
The central sun star and the lunar star appeared side by side.
It was a wonderful scene.
Group Ganjia gold star.
I had never studied Tianxing Feng Shui carefully before.
I just read it a few times in order to make some money for the archaeological team.
At this time, when I looked at it, the contents of the Tianzi Scroll in the Feng Shui Secret Technique immediately emerged in my mind.
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I quickly ran back to the house, took the compass, and climbed to the top of the tower to compare the stars in the sky.
This place shrouded by auspicious stars was at the ancient well in the city.
This is my first time to practice Tianxing Feng Shui, and I am not sure, but I am probably sure that my sixteen-character Yin and Yang Feng Shui secret book is not a common thing.
So it means that there must be ancient tombs near underground water veins.
It is said that they hold water, but is this too close?
Anyway, this is a major discovery.
I have to tell the archaeological team about it.
It's best if they find something here and gain something, so they probably won't have to go into the Black Desert.
After hearing what I said, Professor Chen was overjoyed and rushed to the well with his students excitedly, planning to go down and have a look.
The well's railings and nooses were reinstalled later, and the previous ones were destroyed at some point.
Shiry Yang and I discussed it.
The well is very deep.
We can make a double-buckle safety lock and hang people down to see what is inside.
Then I can only go down.
Although there were water veins below, I still didn't dare to be careless.
I put on a gas mask, a flashlight, a whistle, an engineer shovel, and a dagger.
I secretly hid the black donkey's hoof and the gold-touching charm.
I stretched out my hand to test the strength of the rope and discussed the contact. method, if by hand Shake the flashlight upward three times.
When the person above sees it, they will stop and stop putting the rope.
The second time the flashlight is shaken upward, it means to pull it up.
In order to prevent accidents, a whistle is also worn.
If the light of the flashlight cannot be seen, just Use whistles to communicate.
It was night at this time.
Except for the light of the flashlight, everything was pitch black.
You couldn't see clearly where the wellhead was when you looked up.
The temperature dropped deeper and deeper in the desert.
The temperature at night in the desert was very low.
Coupled with the high humidity in the well, it made people feel like they were never there.
Cold from the inside out.
The walls of the well are slippery, making it difficult to stand on.
It is said that this ancient well is much older than Xiye City.
This well came first and Xiye City came later.
Suddenly a cool breeze blew.
I hurriedly used a flashlight to shine and saw a stone door on the wall of the well.
I aimed it at the top of my head, blowing the whistle and flashing the flashlight.
This place was not far from the mouth of the well, only fifteen or six meters deep.
As long as I spoke loudly, the people above could hear me.
When they received the signal, they immediately stopped and put down the rope.
I was hanging just below the stone gate.
The cold wind blew out from the gap in the stone door.
When I pushed it with my hand, I felt that the stone door was very thick and there was no stone lock or latch.
Although the gap was large, it could not be pushed and I needed to use a crowbar to open it.
Seeing that I couldn't get in, I gave a second signal and asked them to pull me up.
I explained the situation in the well in detail, and Professor Chen was amazed: "It's strange, maybe this is not a mausoleum, but a secret passage.
How can there be any mausoleum in the world built next to a well with such a mysterious passage?"
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The fat man volunteered: "Whatever he is, there's no point in guessing.
Let's go in and take a look.
You guys get me down, and I'll pry open the stone door."
I said: "Forget it, if you want to go down, I'll go down with the crowbar.
Fatty, you are too heavy.
If the rope breaks, we have to go down the well to fish you out."
This time we made a rope ladder, so that after the stone door is opened, whoever wants to go down can climb down from the rope ladder.
In the end, the four people who decided to go down were Professor Chen, Shiry Yang, Sa Di Peng and me.
Fatty and others stayed on top. .
I still went down first and used a crowbar to pry open the stone door.
It seemed that this door had been opened and closed frequently in the past, otherwise there would not be such a big gap.
However, it may not have been opened in the past few hundred years, and it was difficult to use the rope ladder.
It took a lot of effort to open this door.
Behind the stone door is a corridor made of masonry.
It is spacious and neat, and the inside is pitch-black and unfathomable.
I asked Shiry Yang and the others above to come down, and pulled the three people into the corridor one by one.
Shiry Yang distributed a pill to everyone, saying it could prevent hypoxia, and then put on a gas mask and walked inside without risk.
The four of them walked about fifty meters inside and passed two stone doors in a row.
The last door was sealed tightly.
There were unknown strange beasts embossed on the stone door.
There were dead animal skins stuck to the cracks in the door.
They used a flat shovel to remove the animals.
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.
The length and width were almost sixty or seventy meters, and the height was three meters.
The four people standing inside didn't feel cramped at all.
Although this space is spacious, the atmosphere is by no means relaxing.
There are so many bones on the ground that you can't find a place to put your feet.
The bones are all from animals.
They are extremely loose and will break if you step on them.
There are dozens of wooden pillars around it, with fasteners tied to them.
There were dried human bones, all of which looked like strong men.
Professor Chen, Shiry Yang, and I have been practicing for a long time, but we just feel that this place is mysterious and not scary.
Only Sa Di Peng saw so many mummies and was so frightened that he couldn't even speak.
Wherever the professor went, he would Wherever he goes, he never dares to take a step away.
Shiry Yang looked at the mummies and sighed: "It's so miserable.
They must be slaves or prisoners who were buried in the grave.
It's really too barbaric."
Professor Chen said to everyone: "It seems that this is a place to hold sacrifices to important deceased people.
This was the custom of Gumo in ancient times.
These individuals were all criminals.
They were tied to death of thirst in the desert and were completely dried before being placed on the altar."
Here, the blood of the slaughtered animals is poured onto these mummies.
Let’s look for a tomb here.”
We turned around and looked around.
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There were stone walls on all sides.
After knocking a few times, it was obvious that they were solid and there would be no other space behind them.
Shiry Yang was still careful and discovered that there was something wrong with the floor of the stone chamber.
I pushed aside all the broken bones on the ground, and a large stone slab with relief was exposed on the ground, with two pull rings at both ends.
I asked Sa Di Peng to help me pull up the slate.
I saw that his whole body was shaking into a ball.
I couldn't help but laugh.
I asked him to go back along the same route to avoid peeing his pants here.
I also replaced Hao Aiguo.
He must be right.
Interesting in this weird tomb.
As if he had received an amnesty, Sa Di Peng hurried back.
Professor Chen was angry and funny: "Oh, this kid is too timid.
He is not material for archeology."
Shiry Yang and I worked together to pull open the stone slab on the ground, and then threw in a cold firework to illuminate the place below.
Under the ground was a tomb chamber about the same size as above, with a square coffin placed in the middle.
The difference between the coffin and the mainland is too big.
There is no decorative pattern, and it is not rectangular.
It is square, but looks like a large box.
Not to mention that I have never seen this kind of tomb and coffin.
Professor Chen is so knowledgeable that I can't figure it out.
This is probably an ancient form of national tomb that has been lost for a long time.
It is greatly influenced by Han culture, but it is made to be specious and has a lot of its own culture added, which is really rare.
At this time, Hao Aiguo came with Chu Jian.
When he saw the scene here, his eyes gleamed with excitement.
He put on a gas mask and jumped out first.
He looked here and there, and the back of his head was filled with joy. .
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.
Now he is almost dancing and scratching his head and ears.
We also went down to the tomb chamber on the ground floor one after another.
When we looked around, we couldn't help but say "ah".
The four walls of the tomb chamber were all covered with exquisite colorful murals.
Professor Chen was very excited when he saw one of the paintings: "The things recorded in these paintings are related to Jingjue Kingdom."
What I want to see most are the valuable funerary objects.
This coffin is not small, and there might be something good inside.
Although they can't take it away in front of the professor, it can still be an eye-opener.
I now feel that the tomb of a nobleman is more luxurious than the general's tomb in 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 just listen to Professor Chen commenting on the murals to Hao Aiguo and others.
The first few paintings show that the owner of the tomb was the prince of Gumo during his lifetime.
Gumo was a vassal state of Jingjue and was oppressed.
Every year, he donated a large amount of treasures and cattle and sheep slaves.
He once went to Queen Jingjue to request for his subjects.
Free, I went there three times in a row, but never saw the Queen.
This painting probably means that he is unwilling to give in.
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The brave prince is the incarnation of the sun war god.
He sneaked into Jingjue alone to assassinate the evil queen, but he discovered a big secret.
As I listened, I was also attracted by the professor's words.
I was very curious about what the secret was, so I walked over and listened to the professor's explanation with Shiry Yang and others.
Professor Chen walked to the next mural and looked at it carefully for a long time: "The meaning is very strange.
Look at this painting, the prince is hiding in the corner and snooping.
The face of Queen Jingjue is covered in all the murals.
Veil, in this painting the queen only has her back.
She lifts the veil with one hand, and the person opposite, who seems to be a slave or something, turns into a shadow and disappears."
I was confused and wanted to ask more questions, but I heard Shiry Yang say: "This queen is a monster."
"Monster" Professor Chen was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then said to Shirey, "It's interesting, tell me what you think."
Shiry Yang pointed to the mural and said: "The painter who painted this mural is very skilled in painting.
The composition is gorgeous and expressive.
It describes the major events in the life of Prince Gumo.
Although there is no textual annotation, the characteristics are very distinctive."
I watched her analysis carefully while listening to her analysis of the murals.
Indeed, as she said, the characters, costumes, buildings, and expressions in the murals are all lifelike.
If you know something about the culture of the Western Regions, you can roughly grasp the painting through this information in the paintings.
The background of the events recorded in.
Just listen to Shiry Yang continue: "Professor, the mural you just mentioned is the most difficult to understand among all the murals.
In the painting, the queen lifts the veil that has always been covering her face, and a figure opposite her is It has become a dotted line.
All the characters in these murals are realistic.
The person who only sees the face of Queen Jingjue has become a dotted line, and only a vague outline is drawn.
From this only outline, we cannot tell the identity of this figure, and can only speculate about the figure in the dotted line.
It's a slave or an assassin, an enemy that the Queen wants to get rid of
.
"
When I heard this, I couldn't help but interjected and asked: "Miss Yang, do you mean that the person in the painting disappeared after seeing the queen's face?"
Shiry Yang said: "Mr.
Hu said almost the same thing.
If I were to explain it in my own words, I would say that the Queen's eyes looked at this person and he disappeared."
I shook my head and smiled bitterly: "It's incredible that a living person could disappear after just one glance.
To be honest, it's a little difficult for me to understand."
Professor Chen seemed to understand what Shiry Yang meant and motioned for her to continue.
Shiry Yang said: "Although I am just speculating, I am not talking out of thin air.
My father liked to read a book called "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" during his lifetime.
It was written by the eminent monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty.
I have read it several times.
It records many legends from the ancient Western Regions, some of which are There are many myths and legends that are true.
Among them is the legend of the Queen of the Desert.
In the depths of the desert, there is a city inhabited by an underground nation.
They conquered and ruled other surrounding small countries for hundreds of years.
Years later, Wang The queen was passed down to a queen.
It is said that the queen's eyes are the passage connecting the underworld.
As long as she looks at her enemy, the opponent will disappear without a trace, and they will never come back.
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The disappeared person goes Where are they?
I'm afraid it's just those people themselves.
Only then did I find out.
The queen adopted a high-pressure rule.
She wanted all the people of neighboring countries to worship her as the true god, and all those who resisted were skinned and executed alive.
Perhaps her actions offended God, and the queen died within a few years.
Suffered from a strange disease and died.
"What those slaves feared the most was the Queen.
As soon as she died, the slaves and several surrounding countries that were oppressed by the Queen formed a coalition and bloodbathed the Queen's royal city.
The coalition was preparing to destroy the Queen's mausoleum.
At this moment, the color of the world changed. , the terrible wind and sand swallowed up the royal city and the coalition forces, the queen's tomb and the things she collected Countless treasures were buried under the yellow sand.
After hundreds of years, the flow of the desert allowed the royal city to see the light of day again.
Some travelers passing by would trigger desert storms and clouds of smoke as long as they took any property in the city.
Suddenly, the road is lost, and those who take the Queen's treasure will never be able to leave.
"However, there are no clear records in the book about the mysterious royal city, the evil queen, the historical background, etc.
Today, I saw the murals in the tomb here and compared them with the ancient legend.
There are many similarities between the two.
It makes people feel that it is not only a legend, but maybe something like this really happened in the dusty history.”
Shiry Yang asked everyone to look at the next few murals: "The reason why we are sure that the queen in the painting is Queen Jingjue is because of the special clothes of Jingjue people, as well as Jingjue's unique buildings and decorations.
They are all the most powerful evidence.
Professor, Mr.
Hu, if you look at the following murals, it further proves the reliability of my inference.
The meaning expressed by these murals is very clear.
The prince's assassination was unsuccessful.
After he returned to China, Continuing to plan how to get rid of the queen, the prince met a fortune teller from a distant country.
The fortune teller asked the prince to hide a specially prepared chronic poison in the meat of a golden lamb and then pay tribute to the queen.
Sudden news.
At the same time, the prince died prematurely due to overwork.
He and his beloved wife were buried together in a mausoleum and buried under the altar of the holy well. " It turns out that the altar above was built first and then the tomb was built, and the events recorded in the mural are closely related to the legend in the book.
Professor Chen was very pleased to see that although Shiry Yang was a photographer, she came from a family of archaeologists and had a long history of education.
His old classmate had a daughter.
At this time, I couldn't help but burst into tears when I thought of my old friend who was missing deep in the desert.
Shiry Yang said to the professor: "Take care of your health and don't be too sad.
We have gained a lot this time and have made breakthrough progress in our understanding of the Jingjue ruins.
I believe that we will be able to find the Jingjue ancient city in the near future."
My late father has a spirit in heaven and can rest in peace."
I secretly complained in my heart.
I wanted to find an ancient tomb and let them turn around and go back.
Unexpectedly, it backfired.
Looking at this situation, it was useless to persuade them.
If I had known, I would have pretended not to see it.
I suddenly remembered that Shiry Yang said that the Queen of Jingjue Kingdom was a monster, so I asked: "Miss Yang, I remember when I heard you talk about it before, the Queen is the most beautiful woman in the Western Regions, and other women in front of her are just like The stars are dimmed like the sun, so why do you say she is a monster?
If she is really a monster, wouldn't we risk death if we go to find her tomb?"
Shiry Yang said: "These things are all legends, and our inferences may not be certain to be facts.
Archeology is like this.
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Legends, records, unearthed antiquities, and scholars' speculations.
The more these things are, the more likely they are to be true.
The closer we can get to the truth of history, the closer we can get to it.
No history can be restored to humankind’s understanding of the world in ancient times.
The level of knowledge is very low.
Some phenomena that seem very common now were exaggerated into monsters or miracles in ancient times.
Even today, when science is highly developed, there are still some phenomena that cannot be explained by science.
I believe this is not because of the truth.
There are gods and demons, but the field of scientific exploration is not enough.
In the years to come, we will definitely be able to find the answers to all the unsolved mysteries through scientific means.”
I asked again: "Then the Queen of Jingjue Kingdom can make people disappear with her eyes.
How should we understand this matter today when science and civilization are very advanced?"
Shiry Yang said: "Mr.
Hu, I don't know if you have heard of a sensational event in the United States.
At the Special Phenomenon and Pathology Research Center in Kansas, USA, a strange patient once appeared.
This was a twelve-year-old A year-old boy, he has had a special ability since he was a child , if you stare at an object less than five centimeters in diameter for a long time, the object will disappear, as if evaporating into the air.
Neighbors regard the boy as an alien and say that he is a monster.
His parents are also deeply troubled.
Relevant government departments can help them cure their children.”
This is strange.
I have never heard of it.
I don’t know much about China, let alone the strange news in the United States.
What exactly is this disease?
It sounds exactly like the monster queen.
Finally, this Has the child been cured?
Shiry Yang said: "After research by scientists, they found that this little boy's brain waves are different from ordinary people.
His cranial nerves and optic nerves produce a kind of transport energy, which connects an unexplored space in the imaginary number space.
This The proportion of this kind of special function among humans is one in three billion.
Finally, a researcher Researchers found a way.
They made a magnetic helmet and put it on the little boy's head.
After a year, his special powers disappeared.
At that time, the U.S. military planned to secretly send the child to a military research institute. , but this was revealed, causing an uproar among the people, and the military had to abandon the plan. " After hearing this, I still murmured a little in my heart.
I'm afraid the legendary evil queen is not as simple as that American child.
I'm not afraid of death.
If we really find the Queen's ancient tomb, what should we do if she changes her to that unknown place?
Anyway, let's take one step at a time.
If there is real danger, I will use force.
I won't believe it if anyone dares to disobey orders.
The arms of these intellectuals can't twist my Lao Hu's thighs, and they turned against them.
This long conversation wasted a lot of time, and the surrounding murals were all studied.
I asked Professor Chen, should we still take a look at the contents of the coffin: