After passing through the square, further in front is a palace in the style of the Western Regions, in the corner on the left there are some exquisite stone statues, the level of the author is very high, the statues are lifelike, at first glance, I thought it came to life.

When everyone saw these statues, they wanted to go over and see them, but they were worried that they would touch the mechanism, and the location of these statues was in the corner, so they gave up observing them for safety.

However, Meng Zitao didn't care so much, because he found that the jade projection he saw before was probably a map of the underground palace. Even if it wasn't a map, with his intuition in advance, he didn't have to worry about touching a deadly mechanism. So, when I saw an interesting statue, I walked straight over.

"Curator Meng, wait!" the Pony King was the first to speak up, stopping Meng Zitao.

Meng Zitao turned around: "What's wrong?"

The Pony King said, "Director Meng, you are a master of art and bold, and you are not afraid of organs, but we are afraid!"

Meng Zitao smiled: "Do you have a map here?"

Pony King shook his head, "You have?"

Meng Zitao spread his hands and said, "Since there is no map, we must explore the environment here, otherwise you think the treasure will jump out by itself and send it to us?"

Pony retorted, "That's the case, but you don't have to look everything up, that would only lead to too much useless work." ”

Meng Zitao said, "How do you know that it must be useless, or do you know something?"

"I don't know what these statues do, do you know what they're for?"

"I'm not an immortal, so how can I know if they have a use, but since I'm not sure they don't work, it's only natural to investigate. ”

After speaking, Meng Zitao walked straight to a statue, and observed, the Pony King could not convince Meng Zitao, so he could only go with him.

Of course, it was not unintentional for Mencius to look at these statues, because there was a dot marked here on that picture.

Upon closer inspection, Mencius discovered that the statues here were all in the Gandhara art style, which is Greek-style Buddhist art in the northwestern part of the South Asian subcontinent. It was formed in the 1st century AD and declined after the 5th century AD. Because this art has both Indian and Greek styles, it is also known as "Greek Buddhist art".

It was known that this classical art had spread to the edge of northwestern India, but it was never expected that it would spread to the far west until Nya and Loulan were rediscovered.

The statues in front of me prove that Gandhara art has a very deep influence on the Essence, but this may be related to the fact that the Perfection Country did not have much contact with the outside world at that time and closed itself off from the country.

To get back to the point, the statue in front of Mencius is a boy carrying a wreath and a donor, the wreath is undulating in waves, and the bottom of each valley is wrapped with grape leaves, and in the middle of it is a winged bird with half of its body exposed.

"The boy carrying the garland" is a very famous theme in the early stone carving art of Jiandra, the image and style are obviously transferred from the Greco-Roman art, used to represent the theme of "victory", "celebration", "paradise", etc., decorated on the pedestal of the wave, the middle of the cylindrical tower or the two sides of the stairs, which means to symbolically decorate the eternal world of the Buddha of abundance, happiness and joy.

Next to this statue is a statue of a god, followed by a statue of a monk, a statue of a bodhisattva, and so on, each with its own meaning to express.

Seeing that Meng Zitao was only concerned about observing the statue, the others were a little dissatisfied, and the Pony King complained: "Director Meng, you are really a waste of time like this. ”

"If you can't wait, you can go to explore the way first, I shouldn't need to come to this job. While Meng Zitao looked at the statue, he replied.

Li Rongfa's brows furrowed, and then he waved his hand and asked everyone to search the palace first.

The Pony King had no choice but to say, "Director Meng, don't fall too far." ”

Meng Zitao waved his hand, indicating that he understood.

Two of Zhu Zhongshi's subordinates were sent out as pathfinders, Zhu Zhongshi stayed because of his bad legs, he looked at Meng Zitao, and found that Meng Zitao was indeed only interested in the statue, but the security personnel were all around him to protect him.

In fact, the Pony King also wanted Meng Zitao's security guards to take the lead, but Meng Zitao directly put on an uncooperative attitude and threatened not to cooperate, which made the Pony King and Li Rongfa temporarily give up their thoughts.

A few thoughts flashed through Zhu Zhongshi's heart, and he simply stopped and looked at the statues.

Seeing that Zhu Zhongshi actually looked at the statue, Pony King and Li Rongfa felt that the statue might not be simple.

It was impossible for the Pony King to ask Mencius again, so he turned his attention to Zhu Zhongshi, stepped forward and asked with a smile, "Boss, do these statues have any secrets?"

Zhu Zhongshi glanced back at the Pony King, and then said, "Can you get my people back?"

As soon as Pony King heard this, he immediately took out his walkie-talkie: "Quick, come back to me!"

Li Rong was startled and issued the same order, which caused a small panic for a while. This made Meng Zitao and the others next to him very surprised, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

More than a dozen people returned safely, much to the relief of Pony King and Li Rongfa.

"Boss, you should tell us by now. Pony King said.

"What you're trying to ask is what's wrong with this statue?"

"Please also ask the old man to explain his doubts. ”

"I don't know. ”

Pony King and Li Rongfa were stunned, thinking that they had misheard.

"What did you say?" asked Pony King.

That's what you mean. Zhu Zhongshi said lightly: "I just asked you to call my people back, and I didn't tell you, I must know what is wrong with the statue." ”

Pony King blinked, and suddenly laughed, "Okay, ginger is still old and spicy, but I don't understand, what's in it for you?"

"Of course there are benefits. Zhu Zhongshi suddenly smiled mysteriously.

Seeing Zhu Zhongshi's smile, Pony King and Li Rongfa's faces changed drastically, and just as they were about to take action, it was too late.

"Boom!"

The ground around Pony King and the others suddenly sank down, and they didn't have time to react, so they fell with the sinking ground, because it was too sudden, and Pony King and the others staggered, not to mention, seizing the instant opportunity to jump up.

"Bang bang!"

Zhu Zhongshi's two men shoot at the Pony King and their unleft men, but the incident happens suddenly, and the other party has no time to react, and falls in a pool of blood.

But in the blink of an eye, there were only two people left on the ground, Zhu Zhongshi and Meng Zitao.

"Smack!"

Meng Zitao walked over while applauding: "I wish the old man a good method!"

"It's just for self-preservation. "Zhu Zhongshi is very calm, like saying something innocuous and insignificant.

Meng Zitao can understand what Zhu Zhongshi means, and with the performance of the two sides, King Pony and Li Rongfa, they will definitely kill Zhu Zhongshi in the end, and with Zhu Zhong's ability to achieve it, he can't resist at all. Rather than this, it is better to strike first.

Meng Zitao looked underground and found that it was a passage that extended downward.

"Where does this passage go?"

"I don't know. Zhu Zhongshi shook his head.

Meng Zitao looked at Zhu Zhongshi with a smile, which meant to say, "I really don't know, or I don't know?"

Zhu Zhongshi said: "I don't have to lie to you about this, let's go, I'll take you to the main room." ”

Meng Zitao shook his head: "I'm really worried, you have cheated me." ”

"If you don't go, then I can't help it. Zhu Zhongshi said.

Meng Zitao smiled, and then made a gesture and asked Zhu Zhongshi to lead the way.

Next, when there were no moths, the group soon arrived at the main room.

The room was magnificent, however, it was quite dilapidated all around, and there were traces of weapons everywhere, and nothing intact was found.

In fact, the traces of the battle were encountered by Meng Zitao on the way to the main room, indicating that this underground palace should have experienced fierce battles. It's just that to his surprise, he didn't see a single skeleton or weapon.

Zhu Zhongshi walked to the throne, pulled the armrest of the throne up, and a rumbling sound sounded, and next to the throne, a secret entrance suddenly appeared.

"Director Meng, please. Zhu Zhongshi made a request to Meng Zitao.