To explore the tomb, we must have sufficient equipment, and our equipment is basically on a few camels, and now we have nothing left on us except for some weapons for self-defense. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and the grave digging must be prepared is the torch, we woke up, picked up some old poplar wood, and then cut a hole in the first layer of rags hanging on the wall, used to make the head of the torch, just tore the cloth, Bajian exclaimed: "There is a painting behind!"

Originally, it was strange that there were murals in the tower, but when we lifted the curtain, we were amazed by the content of the painting. On the walls of the first floor of the tower are painted some people, these people are dressed in all kinds of clothes, the material of the clothes is not expensive clothes, some are very simple, some are even shirtless. These people were yellow-skinned, kneeling on the ground, looking up at the sky, looking very humble.

"It's a slave!" said the Kushi, "The last time I came in, I didn't pay attention to this curtain, it turns out that there is still a secret hidden inside. ”

The little Taoist priest said: "These slaves come from different regions, although the clothes on their bodies are shabby, but they all have their own characteristics, Loulan belongs to the kingdom society, according to their thoughts, slaves are the most inferior, so they are at the bottom." ”

I said: "This tower has a peculiar shape, and in the yellow sand, it is not suitable to build the tower so high, there may be more murals on it, we may be able to see the role of this tower from the murals." ”

The little Taoist priest nodded, and we went up to the second floor, which painted the agriculture that the Loulan people relied on for survival, the crops, and the orchard. The third layer depicts camels, cattle and sheep, all of which are lifelike, but because of the passage of time, the colors of the paintings are a little white, and they are not so bright.

The fourth layer is a bit unexpected to us, it is painted with some beautiful palace maids and kingdom guards, according to the arrangement of the first to fourth floors, we can conclude that the nine-story tower has a clear level, maybe at the top, we can see a more important person, this figure may be the tomb owner that the little Taoist priest wants to know. It's just that the ninth floor is a hollow ground, and there is only an ancient clock on it, and there is no cloth curtain on it, which means that there is no information to be found, I thought so, and my heart was instantly filled with curiosity.

The fifth layer is also people, the status is relatively high, from their clothing, and demeanor can be determined, it is some of the palace ministers of Loulan, logically speaking, the ministers are the backbone of a country, ranking fifth is a bit condescending, which also makes me want to know what kind of characters will be above the sixth floor.

The big guy climbed up to the sixth floor, Bajian looked at the mural in front of him, and sneered: "Son, I see that the owner of the ancient tomb you are talking about must be an extremely **** person, what are you looking at, they are all beautiful girls!"

I said: "The girl is a girl, but you don't find that these women are dignified, from the middle one, to the side of the extension are also different grades, and there are also our Han women, if I guess correctly, they should be the beauties of the palace apse." ”

I look at the beautiful women who are like fairies, and their eyebrows reveal all kinds of feelings, and if this mural is discovered by the bitter scientists in our time, and the public is in the world, it will inevitably have a different repercussions.

The most beautiful of them all is the woman sitting in the middle wearing a twilight satin dress, this dress shows her status, she may be the king's concubine, there is a cold feeling between the eyebrows, not eating the fireworks of the world.

"Childe, don't look at it, let's go to the seventh layer!" I was called by Bajian, and the state of lost soul was pulled back, I followed the little Taoist priest to the seventh floor, and after the curtain on the seventh layer was lifted, I gasped, because the painting clouds in front of us were steaming, and the flowers and herbs were blooming in front of the Beique Zhu Palace, which looked like a fairyland in the sky.

The highest state of a painting is that although it is in a flat state, it can make people feel shocked from the bottom of their hearts, as if they are in the world of painting, and continue to rise with its realm.

The murals on the seventh floor are more vivid than the six layers below, and they are all mineral pigments that do not change color, and the auspicious clouds are mainly shell powder, among which the precious jade pigment lapis lazuli embellishes the color of the sky, making it real and three-dimensional.

I wandered through the clouds, walked slowly, and found a man sitting on a golden camel, which was the supreme symbol of power in the ancient kingdom of Loulan, which only an emperor could have.

The man was fair-skinned and handsome, with two slender mustaches on his lips and a sheep's beard at his chin. He was wearing a light and soft silk brocade robe, and he looked extraordinary. Looking closely, his clothing style is biased towards the Central Plains, which makes me think that he may be the king of Loulan in the Han and Han dynasties, because the first contact between the Loulan people and the Central Plains was during the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. Judging from the damage of the ancient tower, it is more likely that this person was the king of the Western Han Dynasty.

"The characters on the seventh layer are no longer ordinary, so what will happen on the eighth and ninth floors?" I had a question in my heart, and the curiosity about the eighth and ninth layers made the whole person tremble a little.

The little Taoist priest said: "Generally, the only one who can be above the king is the gods, and the gods above may be the gods believed in by the Loulan people, such as the river dragon." ”

However, when we reached the eighth layer, what kind of river dragon was soaring in front of us, looking like a pterodactyl with a human face, but I didn't expect this thing to be ranked eighth, above the emperor.

Ba Jian looked at the picture of the human-faced hairy ghost rushing towards the sky with a look of disgust, and said, "This Loulan King's taste is really strange, why is this thing's status so high?"

Thinking of the corpse I saw in the reeds, I had palpitations and said: "The human-faced hairy ghost may be unknown to the Loulan people, and the unknown means fear, so the Loulan people respect it as if people are afraid of ghosts and gods." ”

"That's not right...... In addition to admiration, perhaps the human-faced hairy ghost has other functions. The little Taoist priest seemed to see something.

"Why do you say that?" I wondered.

At this moment, even the Knife Breaker, who was indifferent to these people, turned his face sideways and looked at the little Taoist priest, waiting for his next answer.

"Look at these hairy ghosts, it's really ugly, but here they're deified, and their tails are different from the ugliness we see, like the tails of mythical birds. ”

I nodded, and said, "It's really a lot worse...... I looked at their tails intently, this mural is a little mysterious, but if I looked closely, I found something special, I looked at the little Taoist priest and stammered: "Their tails seem to be people, crops, livestock...... with seven other layers painted on it......"

The little Taoist priest nodded, and I was secretly surprised in my heart: "Damn, this is like Van Gogh's abstract painting, if it weren't for the combination of multi-faceted art in our time, and the horizon is broad, it is really difficult to see a reason." ”

Bajian and Kushi listened and wanted to see something from it, but they didn't have any talent for painting and wisdom, and after looking at it for a long time, they said that it was a patchwork of various colors, and it wasn't until I explained the outline to them one by one that they understood.

I asked the little Taoist, "Is this what you see, and what does it represent?"

The little Taoist priest said: "Attract souls to ascend to heaven, and the human-faced hairy ghost ascends to heaven with seven-layer things and reaches the fairy world." If this assumption is true, then there should be no mural at the top, because the hollow world represents the heavens, and the bell is the key to knocking on the gates of the heavenly realm. ”

As soon as I heard this, I looked up at the stairs that climbed the hollow floor, and goosebumps rose all over me, because this idea of the ancients made people feel a little magical and a little weird. If we are correct in our assumption that the man riding the golden camel is an emperor of Loulan, then the deeper meaning of the mural should be that he wants to bring the wealth he once had in the human world to heaven and continue to become a dragon among men. I sighed silently in my heart, the ancient nobles' thoughts about immortality and ascension to heaven were always strikingly similar.

Just when we were surprised by the information given by these murals, the ethereal voice of "Dong Dong ......" came from above us, and everyone was shocked when they heard the strange sound. We looked up in horror and stared with bated breath at the arched door frame on the highest floor. Bajian knotted his tongue and said, "What...... What's the sound?"

The little Taoist priest said in a deep voice: "The bell ......" (to be continued.) )