We ran for a long distance in one breath, until we were sure that there were no man-eating ants catching up, and the big guy lay on the yellow sand on all fours, and after a while, I asked the little Taoist priest what he meant by what he had just said, and what was it not accidental?

I sat up, and at this time, the treasurer stared closely at his back, got up silently, and followed him, I was afraid that this person was treacherous, and I didn't dare to let him disappear from sight easily, and immediately followed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Let's go, how can the ancestors still be in the mood to lie down, and the group inexplicably followed the little Taoist priest to the highest sand mountain.

The little Taoist priest stood on the top of the sand dunes, looking solemnly at the place where we had escaped death just now, and I followed his gaze to see the Gobi under the moonlight, the thin layer of sand glowed with a cold white light, like a lake at night, with a touch of loneliness and desolation in the quiet.

The breeze swept up the sand on the ground, and the small Gobi in the dark formed a round shadow of the grass pile, thinking that we were in that strange shadow just now, I couldn't help but be a little afraid, I turned my head sideways and asked the little Taoist, "What are you looking at?"

The little Taoist priest looked ahead and said, "Look at those grass ......."

"Grass?" I looked at him in confusion and looked forward, what could I see from the grass?

Wang Bajian couldn't stand still at this moment, he sat on the side of the little Taoist priest and said, "Oh, our cloak is still underneath, when it gets dawn, we have to go and get it back!"

When Baocai heard this, he squatted down unhappily and said: "I'm not going, didn't you see the camel of the boss of the library, how long did it take to become a white bone, I think we can give it up, don't lose Qingqing's life for a little wealth!"

When I heard the story of treasure wealth, I looked at him in amazement, thinking that he was the kind of person who followed the cemetery for the sake of wealth, but I didn't think that now I could say the words of giving up my wealth to save my life, it seems that it is really frightening to man-eating ants.

The little Taoist priest looked ahead and said, "Didn't you find that grass very strange?"

The Old Ancestor said meaningfully, "You mean their arrangement, right?"

Listening to the old ancestor's little bit, my unknown brain finally has a direction. I looked intently at the shadows of the grass in the darkness, the moonlight was as indifferent as water, and it could not illuminate all the grass below, only a part of it could be seen, but the part I saw, if I looked closely, seemed to be arranged in a straight line, and there were many ...... Seeing this, I feel a little chilled all over my body, it would be a little scary for someone to deliberately plant grass here, like a crop circle, something too mysterious and unknown can make scientists excited, but for ordinary people like us, it is a little creepy.

He asked, "Half-immortal, why is the grass so neatly arranged in this desolate place?"

The little Taoist priest glanced at the treasure, then turned his gaze to the front, sat down and explained: "There are many countries in the Western Regions that worship the god of fire and the god of the sun, if I am not mistaken, this should be a burial ground. ”

"Burial ground?" Bao Cai and Wang Bajian said in unison.

As the so-called doing a line, we drill into a line, we walk in the vast desert, but we run into the cemetery impartially, and it is also declining to think about it. However, looking at the Gobi Desert in front of me, it reminds me of the "Xiaohe Cemetery" in the ancient country of Loulan.

The burial system of the "Xiaohe Cemetery" is also very special, I have seen a picture and text record, there are many poplar stakes erected in the cemetery, they are almost vicissitudes, standing in the yellow sand, a total of more than 100. There have been archaeological reports that the culture of Xiaohe Cemetery mainly promotes a kind of genital worship. Although we can't see the exact shape of the cemetery in front of us, we can deduce that it is a sun-shaped cemetery based on the grass pile we have just seen.

This cemetery has not been discovered in modern times, and it may have been flooded by wandering sand in the course of a thousand years, but there is a very famous "Sun Tomb" of the same type. The location of the "Sun Tomb" is on the north bank of the ancient channel of the Peacock River, which is a mystery left over more than 3,800 years ago.

I think I've always learned about some ancient culture from books, so I don't have Xue Wei's ability to investigate, so I can only rely on the opinions of my ancestors, little Taoist priests and others, and combine my own theories to judge and analyze.

"This cemetery is so strange...... "After all, Wang Bajian is not upside down, and he has never left home, so he is always ignorant of the new things in the outside world.

The little Taoist priest said: "This kind of cemetery is very special, it integrates the local tribal culture, it is a group burial cemetery, and one person is buried under the grass of each regiment......"

"Ah......h

"This burial method is called grass head sacrifice ......" To our surprise, the Kushi sitting on the edge spoke, he turned his eyes to the little Taoist priest, and said in a hoarse voice: "If it wasn't for your reminder, I didn't expect this place to still exist...... You're right, it's a small tribe of funerals, this tribe is called the Hydroxy Barbarians, and I've heard it since I was very young. The ancestor of the hydroxyl barbarians is the earliest Loulan people. They believed in the sun god and all the greenery of the desert, believing that it was these two that gave them the possibility to live in the desert. Therefore, after the death of each patriarch, the young strong men of the hydroxybarian tribe will capture slaves, seal them in wooden coffins, and sacrifice them to the sun god and the grass god, and I am not mistaken, there should be three large haystacks in the center, which are the tombs of the successive patriarchs of the hydroxybarian tribe. ”

After the Kushi finished speaking, I gasped, I have heard of this kind of "grass head sacrifice", which is to suffocate people to death in a wooden coffin, this wooden coffin is different from our Central Plains, it is smaller, it can almost be said to be tailor-made. We put it horizontally, and we pay attention to putting it into the soil for safety, but they are all placed vertically. Because on the top of the vertical wooden coffin, there is a seal, the function of this seal is to pull the head of the dead slave out of the wooden coffin after seven days, and then use an instrument similar to an arrow on the edge to insert it into the slave's neck for fixation, and the grass needs to find groundwater, so it will continue to take root, and some roots will go deep into the head of the slave buried in the sand, this concept is to use grass to cross the spirit, serve the sun god, and bless the descendants of the tribe. It's just that this tribe didn't survive the third generation before it fell, and the hydroxy barbarians disappeared from the stage of history.

"There are still people who believe in the god of grass, if you don't say it, I thought they believed in ants!" Bao Cai smacked his tongue.

The old ancestor smiled: "They don't believe in man-eating ants, they should be respected, the way of the weak in this world is that the weak eat the strong, and for the strong and united ant colony, the hydroxybarian people should be very respectful...... That's why the little heavenly master said that the existence of this ant is not accidental, but inevitable. ”

As soon as the old ancestor's words fell, I noticed that the Kushi's eyes were fixed on him, as if he was thinking about something

Wang Bajian suddenly understood the meaning of the words of the little Taoist priest and the old ancestor, and said, "You mean that these man-eating ants are the guardian saints of this place?"

The little Taoist priest nodded, which reminded me of the scarab beetles, which are said to be totemic objects in ancient Egypt, and appeared in the movie "Mummy", as soon as they appeared, they were like black tides, extremely lethal, and they were the guardians of the pharaoh's tomb.

After knowing what happened to us, we dug a pit in the sand dune, curled up in it, and survived a night, and the next morning, when the sky was white, the little Taoist priest woke up early, and gradually opened up the big ground, and the scenery of the Gobi Desert was in full view, and it was like a jade necklace worn by the girl's neck.

I didn't see it clearly last night, but this morning, I saw that the haystack was indeed designed in the shape of the sun. It's a bit spectacular, and I have to admire the ancients, who already knew what the sun looked like when the overall civilization was backward.

Now Bao Cai also woke up, he stretched, yawned, and complained: "Alas...... There was no fire all night, and they all froze to death, alas...... I'm still thirsty, it's terrible......"

I didn't think about thirst all the time, but after he reminded me, my throat felt even more uncomfortable, and I really wanted to kick him down the dune, so I said, "Lord Bao, aren't you the most believer in Bodhisattva, then you should know that touching your head in the morning will affect your fortune for the day......, right?"

Bao Cai said: "Aren't I a young man and an angry young man?" Saying that, he leaned over to me and whispered: "Son, what do you say we are doing here? Isn't it just looking for Loulan treasure, if it weren't for the word 'treasure', I would rather stay in the Yunlai Inn with Chen Fatzi to eat and drink spicy, and now you say that you haven't arrived in the ancient country of Loulan, we almost hang, what kind of crime have you suffered, I have promised the Bodhisattva, there will be no next time, and I will definitely not wade into this troubled water next time I am killed!"

I looked at his unwavering appearance, and said with a smile: "Hey, when are we here for the treasure of Loulan? Are we for the little heavenly master? Can we not drill into the eyes of money, talk so worldly, and talk about our ancient trip, which can't be reached by rocket and spaceship, you said that since they are all here, it is not bad to have a long insight, you see, this rumored 'grass head sacrifice' has been seen by us, how meaningful!"

Bao Cai stroked his hair, frowned slightly, and said: "I don't have as high sentiment as you, and we don't have a camera, the ghost knows that we have seen the disappeared ancient civilization, anyway, I just need some actual ......" (to be continued.) )