Chapter 269: Leaving the team
In the passage into the tomb, there were many broken utensils scattered around, and there were several dried corpses lying on the bluestone floor.
The man surnamed Hu said with some regret: "It seems that this tomb has been patronized by tomb robbers, and the hole we came down should be the hole dug by tomb robbers." ”
Professor Chen carefully picked up the broken utensils on the ground, and said with great regret: "Looking at the shape of these utensils, it is estimated that they are at least more than a thousand years old, but it's a pity, alas!"
Behind him, Dr. Hao scolded angrily: "Hmph, it's all those damn tomb robbers! They are the sinners of history!"
The man surnamed Hu and the man surnamed Wang looked at each other, their faces a little embarrassed.
"This is just the periphery of the tomb, let's go inside and maybe find something!" the man surnamed Hu proposed.
"Okay, Brother Hu is right, let's go in and have a look. Professor Chen repeatedly agreed, facing the tomb, these old scholars who have been engaged in archaeological research all their lives have long been unable to hold back their curiosity.
Chen Mo followed behind everyone, all the way, all the protective measures such as the mechanism had been destroyed, and everyone walked easily.
Many frescoes began to appear in the tombs, and Professor Chen carefully studied them with a searchlight.
"This is supposed to be the tomb of the prince of Gusha, one of the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions, and these murals record the life of the prince. ”
Along the way, Professor Chen introduced everyone along the way.
"Look at this, this is the prince's triumphant return from battle. This is the prince's marriage ......"
Until the last pair, Professor Chen was stunned and a little puzzled: "What does this picture mean?"
In the lower part of the fresco, a woman with a behaving body sits on a throne with a group of prostrate people at her feet, including the prince himself.
The woman's facial expression is very subtle, especially the third eye on her forehead, which makes people feel extremely weird to look at.
In the upper part of the mural, a masked woman dressed in white with long hair and a shawl is depicted, stepping on five-colored auspicious clouds under her feet, and holding a three-foot long sword behind her hands.
The most strange thing is that this woman's outfit is clearly the dress of an ancient Chinese woman, and this woman's pattern occupies half of the mural, and it is still the most important upper part.
Obviously, the identity of this woman is the most noble one on the mural.
Professor Chen frowned and pondered, "The mural in the lower half should be an event of special envoys from various countries worshipping a queen, and this queen has three eyes. But who is the white-clad sword-wielding woman in the upper half, and why does she occupy half of the mural alone?"
"The Queen of Three Eyes, is this Queen a monster?" exclaimed Xiao Yun, a female member of the team.
Professor Chen shook his head: "This queen is likely to be the Exquisite Queen we are looking for. ”
Behind him, Dr. Hao was surprised: "The legend says that the Absolute Queen has three eyes and can connect to the netherworld, is the legend true?"
Everyone suddenly felt a burst of horror, and their backs were a little cold, could it be that the exquisite ancient city they had been looking for was a monster country?
In the end, Professor Chen solved everyone's doubts: "That's not necessarily, when the ancients worshiped a thing to the extreme, they all liked to deify it, maybe this exquisite queen has the wisdom to know people, so she was over-deified by later generations." ”
The crowd breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go, let's continue to look inside, I hope the tomb of Prince Gushu is not destroyed. Professor Chen said.
The tomb baptized by the tomb robbers was almost completely destroyed, and the sarcophagus of the prince had long since been opened, and nothing of value was left.
Professor Chen and the others regretfully withdrew from the tomb, then replenished the water source and continued to follow the map.
I walked for another two days, but there was still no clue about the ruins of the exquisite ancient city.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, the man surnamed Hu raised his head and poured a sip of water and asked, "Professor Chen, what does it say on the map?" We have been walking for almost half a month, and it stands to reason that we should have arrived at the ruins of the Exquisite Country. ”
Professor Chen took off his backpack and took out a map and a diary from his bag, saying that it was a map, but in fact it was a hand-drawn scribbled pattern, drawing two mountains like a long black dragon, with the setting sun about to set in the middle.
Professor Chen recited slowly: "Two black dragons are about to engulf the extinguished sun, and that is the gate of the ghost kingdom. ”
"That's what it says in the diary, but what does it mean? There is a sea of sand as far as the eye can see, where are the two black dragons?"
Everyone was a little discouraged, these clues were too slim, or this sea of death was too big, and the human race was negligible in front of it, even the ruins of the exquisite ancient city, in front of this sea of death, were just an inconspicuous star in the endless night sky.
Just when everyone was downcast, the man surnamed Wang suddenly pointed to the sunset that was about to fall on the horizon, and shouted excitedly: "Old Hu, look there!"
When everyone heard this, they turned their heads, and they were all stunned.
At the end of the sunset, two black lines emerged in the afterglow of the setting sun, like two black dragons opening their mouths to engulf the sunset.
"Oh Huda, that's Zacrama Sacred Mountain!" Uncle An immediately knelt on the ground and worshiped sincerely.
The man surnamed Hu suddenly read excitedly: "The extinguished sun is the sunset, and those two black dragons are the Zaklama Sacred Mountain!"
"There, that's the entrance to the Exquisite Ancient City!" shouted the man surnamed Hu excitedly.
Professor Chen and the others also came to their senses, and they trembled with excitement one by one: "That's right, it's there, exactly like the one drawn on the map, the exquisite ancient city, we finally found it!"
Chen Mo looked at the two black dragons, and with his eyesight, he could naturally see that they were actually two black magnetic mountains, like a natural barrier, guarding the entire Essence Kingdom.
However, Chen Mo had a question, it stands to reason that the magnetic mountain has always been complete, why did this magnetic mountain break from it, and the crack in the middle was like a knife cutting an axe, not like a natural fracture at all, but like being cut off by a sword.
As the saying goes, look at the mountains and run dead horses, although everyone has seen the entrance of the exquisite ancient city, but if you want to reach it, you have to walk for at least two days.
At night, the team set up camp in the same place, everyone was very excited, worked hard for more than half a month, and finally saw the result.
Just when everyone was asleep, two figures, an old man and a young man, quietly left, and the man surnamed Wang who was on guard did not notice it at all.
"Master Chen, I heard the tomb robber say that this is where he got the bronze mirror. Yuan Qingshan gasped and said, he used his whole body true qi, and the yellow sand under his feet was churning, so that he could barely catch up with Chen Mo.
Chen Mo put his hands behind his back, calm and relaxed, like walking in the clouds, but every step out, there were several zhang away, and Yuan Qingshan was shocked when he saw it.
The journey that a group of people needed to walk for two days to complete was completed by Chen Mo and Yuan Qingshan in a few hours, and when the sky was bright, Chen Mo and Yuan Qingshan finally stood in front of Zaklama Divine Mountain.
Observing the gap between the two magnetic mountains up close, Chen Mo was extremely sure of his guess in his heart, this gap was cut by someone with a sword.
Although thousands of years have passed, there is still a faint trace of spiritual power left in the incisions on both sides of the Magnetic Mountain.
According to Chen Mo's judgment, the immortal cultivator who was able to cut off the Magnetic Mountain with a single sword was at least a human immortal in the Jindan Realm.