The seven of us found our way through the ruins.
We took detours when we encountered collapsed areas.
After walking for a long time, we arrived at the middle of the ancient city.
The streets here are quite wide.
Although the yellow sand is everywhere, the pattern of the streets can still be seen.
Gotta come out.
However, except for the sloping black tower, there are no other large buildings nearby.
Let alone the palace, there are not even any decent houses, just weathered earth walls.
Professor Chen said that the palace here may be built underground, and there is too much sand in the city.
Let's go to the black tower and watch from a height to see if we can find the entrance to the underground palace.
The base under the tower and most of the arched stone door are buried in the sand.
This black tower is entirely carved from the big stones of Zagrama Mountain.
It is six stories high, slightly tilted, but still very strong.
In addition to the rare construction materials, there is a black olive-shaped stone ball at the highest point of the tower.
Professor Chen put on his reading glasses, raised his head and looked at it for a long time, and then looked at it with a telescope.
While looking at it, he said to himself: "Yes, I never thought of it before."
I wanted to ask him what he didn't expect, but Professor Chen ducked down and got into the tower door.
He seemed eager to confirm something, and we quickly followed behind.
The walls of the tower are densely carved with strange ghost cave inscriptions.
There is a black stone statue on each floor.
The first floor is a stone sheep, which is nothing special.
On the second floor is a stone statue, about the same size as an ordinary person, with a high nose and deep eyes, half-kneeling in the tower.
The third floor turned out to be the giant-eyed stone statue we saw in an unknown town when we were hiding from a sandstorm.
Professor Chen stopped and said to us: "It seems that my guess is correct.
The source of the giant-eyed stone statues unearthed in various places is the country of Jingjue, and the material is the black stone of Nazagrama."
Satipeng asked: "Professor, what is this tower used for?
Why is there a statue on each floor?"
Professor Chen said: "I speculate that this black tower is used to show the status of the Guidong clan.
The stone statues on each floor represent different levels.
The first floor is livestock.
If I guessed correctly, there should be another floor underground where there are The second level of hungry ghosts in hell is ordinary people, including all the barbarians in the Western Regions.
Only taller than cattle and sheep, they are equivalent to slaves.
The third floor is the statue of the giant pupil.
I just saw it.
The stone ball on the top of the tower is in the shape of an eye.
The giant pupil stone and the eye-shaped totem represent this nation.
Worship of the eyes.
Let’s go up and see what has a higher status in Jingjue Country.”
The fat man said: "Even a person of my level can guess it.
I bet it must be the statue of the Queen on it."
He rushed up to the fourth floor first.
I followed closely behind and went up to take a look.
Unexpectedly, the stone statue in this layer had a snake body and a human head, with thick limbs.
The hind limbs were animal-shaped, and the forelimbs were human-shaped.
It was holding a sharp sword and shield, and its face was that of a man. , with a ferocious face and glaring eyes, like the glaring King Kong in the inland temples.
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The stone statue also has a black ball on the back of its head, just like the strange snake in the Zagrama Mountains.
At this time, Professor Chen and others also came up one after another.
When they saw this strange-looking stone statue, they were amazed: "This seems to be the patron saint of the kingdom.
There is also a black ball in the shape of an eye on its head.
It seems that the ghost cave people really believe in eyes."
It is the source of all power.
The status of the patron saint is still lower than that of the queen.
It seems that Queen Jingjue has indeed been deified.
Let’s go to the fifth floor to see if it is the statue of the queen.”
Just as she was about to go up, Ye Yixin was blown by the morning breeze on the tower and suddenly woke up.
Shiryyang took out the kettle and fed her some water.
She is still very weak, but compared to when she was unconscious, she is much more reassured now.
Her dehydration is still very obvious, but there is no need to worry about her life for the time being.
Now that she wakes up, she can use it within a day or two.
If treated properly with a large amount of cold salt water, there will be no serious problem.
We were all eager to know what weird things were on the tower, and we were looking for the entrance to the ancient city's underground palace, so we helped her to the fifth floor of the black tower.
During the short process of walking up to the fifth floor of the Black Tower, I thought about various possibilities, but I didn't expect that the fifth floor was empty, not even the base of the stone statue, but there were more cipher texts on the walls.
I asked Professor Chen: “Has this floor been damaged or stolen?”
Professor Chen hesitated for a moment and said, "It's hard to say.
Only when you look at the upper floor will you know what's going on here."
The stone statue in the black tower aroused everyone's curiosity, and they couldn't wait to go up the steps in the tower to the top.
In the highest tower stood a black throne, with a statue of a woman sitting on it, with gorgeous clothes and a face.
Carved as wearing a veil, the face cannot be seen, but you can tell at a glance that this stone statue is exactly the same as the Queen Jingjue depicted on the mural of Prince Gumo's tomb.
This is a full-length stone statue of the Queen.
Everyone was talking a lot, wondering what the queen looked like.
I couldn't think of a reason, so I asked them: "What kind of medicine does this queen sell in her gourd?
Why doesn't even the statue show her true face?"
The fat man replied: "In my opinion, it's just a pretense.
The most beautiful woman in the Western Region is probably a shameful and ugly monster.
Otherwise, she would be hiding it so that no one would see her.
But her figure is quite reasonable.
The plate is not good, but the note is smooth."
I said you are trying to be virtuous.
This person has been dead for two thousand years.
You still look at people’s health.
Look how similar the things in this city are to those legends.
What if this queen is really a monster?
There's no guarantee that it will jump out of nowhere and bite you.
Let's not make any guesses.
Let's listen to what the professor says.
Professor Chen has not spoken since he went to the sixth floor of the Black Tower.
He has been connecting these clues in his mind.
At this time, he was almost thinking.
When he heard our questions, he said: "I said before , this stone tower is likely to be a spiritual symbol, with obvious hierarchical characteristics, from high to low, that is, from noble to humble.
The citizens of Jingjue Kingdom are mainly composed of Guidong tribe. , this nation has long been extinct, and no remains of any of them have been unearthed, so it is impossible to infer the origin and background of this race.
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Our biggest discovery so far is that this race uses eyes as a totem, which is definitely a reference to ancient times.
A major breakthrough in the study of Western Region civilization.
With this basis, many mysteries that have troubled scholars for many years will be solved."
The fat man asked again: "Then why is the fifth floor empty?"
I suddenly thought that we were in the ancient tomb of Prince Gumo, and after hearing what Shiry Yang said, I couldn't help but blurt out: "Imaginary number space" Professor Chen nodded slightly and said: "Exactly, above the patron saint, there is an indescribable imaginary space, and the queen is above it, as if she completely controls this unknown space.
There are other things on the top of the tower.
A totem in the shape of an eye, which shows that the queen’s power also comes from her eyes.”
Hearing this, everyone was inevitably a little confused.
Could it be that there really is such a space beyond human common sense in this world, and that the queen could control that alien world through her eyes?
Isn't she really a monster?
Fortunately, she is already dead. .
Professor Chen saw that everyone was a little worried, so he continued: "You don't need to be nervous.
Ancient rulers mostly used these myths to fool the people, and only then could they consolidate their dominance.
Just like the emperors in the Central Plains, all of them said He is the True Dragon Emperor, and he teaches Destined by heaven, but in fact, it is just a way to fool the people.
It is not surprising that the queen never shows her face and pretends to be a ghost.
But these monuments are of great value to the study of ancient history and culture.
This stone tower is of great significance.”
We saw that there was nothing but stone statues in the black tower, so we looked down at the whole city from the tower.
We saw that the entire exquisite city was mixed with the yellow sand in the desert.
The outline of the ruins of the ancient city was also in the shape of a huge eye.
After Professor Chen looked at it, he asked me: "Brother Hu, you have a very good understanding of Feng Shui.
What do you think of the Feng Shui in this city?"
I thought to myself that the first priority now was to find the water source in the palace.
Why did the old man ask me if the professor thought that the queen's ancient tomb was under the palace?
Then I carefully looked at the surrounding geographical situation.
I pointed to the Zagrama Twin Mountains in the north and said, "Professor, look at that black mountain range, it looks like a black dragon in the desert, but unfortunately it's broken in the middle, and one dragon turns into two snakes.
In my humble opinion , the valley in the middle was dug manually, and the stones dug out of the mountain were probably used as raw materials for the black towers and stone figures in the city.
In ancient times, the emperors immediately began to prepare for themselves a hundred years later as soon as they ascended the throne.
Mausoleum, if this ancient city really has underground water veins, it will be the same as this Zha Gramma echoed from a distance, forming a motion of silence and movement.
Presumably Queen Jingjue was also a strange person with extraordinary intelligence.
Knowing that the black dragon was inauspicious, she mobilized manpower to cut off the black dragon and pin it so that it could guard her tomb forever. city It forms an excellent treasure cave.
If the Queen's tomb is really in the city, it must be quite large.
So there is one thing I don't understand.
Professor, you said that her palace is underground.
I think the ancient tomb is also underground.
It’s a bit cramped.”
Professor Chen praised: "Sure enough, I think the palace and ancient tombs are indeed underground in the city, but they are not crowded together.
They may be divided into three levels.
The above-ground level is the castle, and the underground level is the palace.
The deepest, It is the mausoleum of Queen Jingjue.
The country of Jingjue is so powerful that it drives hundreds of thousands of slaves from surrounding small countries.
Even the Nazagrama Mountain can carve out a valley.
Although the project of this underground palace and mausoleum is large, it is also small.
It can be done.”
Legend has it that explorers have visited this ancient city more than once, but the yellow sand keeps moving and no trace of them can be found.
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Some of them may have entered the underground palace, but it is completely impossible to confirm, and naturally it is impossible to tell where those people came from.
Where did you enter the underground palace?
Knowing that the royal city is at your feet, but not being able to find the entrance, it makes people anxious.
We walked one street after another under the tower, looking at dilapidated houses after dilapidated houses.
Finally, we found a stone building in the city that was higher than ordinary houses.
It was also covered with a layer of yellow sand.
It was really hard to spot unless you looked carefully. .
It seemed that this was the only clue.
We hurried forward.
This building seemed to be a temple, also made of Zagrama black stone.
The stone door looked like a giant beast with a big mouth open, and a large amount of yellow sand was piled at the door.
Fatty and I dug a passage, and everyone put on gas masks and used cold fireworks to illuminate their way forward.
The stone hall is very grand, with 2,816 giant stone pillars, but the front door is blocked by yellow sand, and there is no sand inside.
There is a jade eyeball enshrined on the ground in the deepest part of the hall.
There are naturally red threads in the jade, and the blue pupils are clearly layered and almost look real.
I was stunned to see it.
Darling, this thing must be priceless.
Even if I just look at it and touch it, I will go through life and death into the desert in vain.
It is really an artifact.
If you don’t see it with your own eyes, how can you expect to get it in the world?
There are such treasures.
The fat man couldn't hold himself back and wanted to remove the jade eyeball and put it into his backpack.
Unexpectedly, after exerting force several times, the eyeball seemed to have taken root on the floor and remained motionless.
Professor Chen was afraid that the fat man would destroy this ancient artifact because of his brute force, so he quickly pulled him away and told him not to move.
Shiry Yang discovered that there was a groove on the jade eyeball, which had a strange shape and was very similar to the fat man's jade pendant, so he said to the fat man: "Try putting your family heirloom jade pendant on it.
It seems to be a mechanism."
The fat man was overjoyed.
He took out his jade pendant from his arms, pushed the others aside, and inserted the jade pendant into the groove of the jade eyeball: "If this matches, then this big eyeball belongs to me.
Who can snatch it from me?"
Who are you in a hurry?
Don’t blame me for being rude.
His grandma’s, this is really a good thing, Lao Hu, this time we are really mad
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