Section 161 Creek

We walked for a while in the boundless Lop Nur, and we looked at it except for the yellow sand. Or the boundless yellow sand, very monotonous color, look at people are boring, unconsciously, we walked for a long time, everyone felt a little exhausted, suddenly we found some broken walls in the distance, similar to the traces of the abandoned city wall, undisguised on the yellow sand, this is estimated to be some Luobu ancestors of the long-abandoned residence of the people, we hurriedly stepped forward, found that it was empty, nothing left, and then along these remnants of the wall to go forward, we found the rapids, clear to the bottom of the Qom River Basin, so we made up for the camels to make up for a short rest, and rode a tall camel and walked all the way down the riverbank, about 60 kilometers south of the lower valley of the Peacock River, in the Luobu Desert, 36 kilometers away from the town of Arakan.

We suddenly found a nice place, 20 meters wide, with sluggish currents, and a string of small lakes and marshes surrounded by reeds and red willows, presumably a new river that appeared after the revival of the Qom River, which they gave it a temporary name before they followed it into the desert.

My heart moved, quickly with a telescope to look into the distance, only to see that there is a round strange hill above, like a huge oval steamed bun in general, and this hill here looks particularly abrupt, strange, because the surrounding are unobstructed flat sand, a gentle desert suddenly rises an oval sand mountain, people feel incredible, and this sand mountain is almost eight meters above the surface, the area is also very large, about more than 2,000 square meters.

And there are hundreds of various kinds of wooden pillars standing on the surface of the sand mountain in the distance, and there is a row of well-preserved wooden fences that are generally in the north-south direction at the middle and west ends, and the cemetery can be divided into east and west areas with the wooden fence wall in the middle as the boundary, anyway, this piece of sand gives people a very strange and abnormal feeling, completely like a big steamed bun full of chopsticks.

I told Xiao Fei about my doubts, and Xiao Fei quickly took the binoculars and looked at it, and he also showed a strange expression, puzzled.

He whispered to me: "What you said is true, those things in the sand in front of you are indeed very strange, I don't know what it is, is it the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan in the past?

"I said okay, let's just follow yours, let's see. The others also looked at it one by one, extremely surprised, extremely different, and at the same time curious, they couldn't wait to go forward to see what was going on, Duan Gongzi also thought about it for a long time, and finally readily agreed to go. So we hurried on our camels and galloped towards the sand. When we walked up to the sand dune, we saw that there was indeed a dense layer of dead trees on the top of the hill, 4-5 meters high. Strangely enough, the plants of the dead standing trees are very close to each other, one after the other, supporting each other, and the dense columns are almost inserted into a radius of 2,500 square meters, apparently intentionally, all of which are obviously made of a complete poplar wood, the thickest standing wood is 1.8 meters high, 50 centimeters in diameter, and has a cross-section of 16 prisms. Carved oval standing timber stands in between, and the top of the thick wood is made oval, and the rounded lines and prisms form a contrast. The largest excavated at the moment

The "male root" stands in the center of the cemetery, 187 centimeters above the surface, with a pointed conical top, painted red throughout, rounded at the upper end, and carved into a 9-prismatic shape in the middle, which Idris considers to be

"It is full of extremely mysterious meanings". The exterior of the Xiaohe cemetery is a dense crowd of polygonal, round, and paddle-shaped poplar pillars on the sand hills.

There are about 140 of these wooden pillars, 2~4 meters above the surface, the diameter is more than 20 centimeters, and the multi-prism is from 6 prisms to 20 prisms, especially 9 prisms.

The shape of the column is different, the size varies greatly, some of it is painted black, the handle is painted red, the upper thickness is thin and the lower is thin, oval, generally about 1.3~1.5 meters, some of the upper part is painted red, wrapped with wool rope, the paddle-shaped column is just puzzling, what are so many pillars used for, is it the column left by the house?

But it's so short, and it's not quite like it, we were thinking, and suddenly there was a click under our feet that caught our attention, and when we walked in and took a closer look, it was really scary, and the hills were full of fragmented mummies, fragmented skeletons, white Sensen, dismembered bodies, The huge wooden planks and thick wool fabric fragments that stumble at any time are eerie and terrifying, really creepy, giving people a most miserable and unbelievable feeling, everyone stands here stupidly, stunned, stunned, I don't know what this place is, why there are so many corpses, it really makes us tremble, shocking.