"For thousands of years, the Western Regions have been eagerly aspiring. Because she has different customs and customs from the mainland of the Central Plains, it is different from China, because she has been a symbol since the Qin and Han dynasties, a battlefield that allows men to gallop on the battlefield, vertical and horizontal, and make contributions, so that women can dance, Loulan is beautiful, and the dream land of the daughter's country.

"Men should make contributions to the border and seal the marquis for thousands of miles. "When the Han Dynasty ran the Western Regions, there were 36 city-states there, known as the 36 States of the Western Regions. For thousands of years, the Western Regions has been an important passage of the Silk Road, so the five ancient civilizations of China, India, West Asia, North Africa and Greece are intertwined here. This allowed the countries of the Western Regions to absorb the excellent cultures of the East and the West, and to be eclectic, which eventually led to the emergence of a new civilization. However, after hundreds or thousands of years of existence, the once glorious 36 countries of the Western Regions have mysteriously disappeared into the smoke and clouds of history without exception. This is a difficult historical mystery to solve, but it is also a historical mystery that must be solved. Some seem to be destined.

Some were destroyed in the fighting. The Gaochang Kingdom was between the central government of the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks, and it was wavering between leaning towards the Tang Dynasty or the Western Turks. In the end, it angered the central government and sent a large army to destroy it. Some were abandoned due to the relocation of residents. The ruins of Niya found today are the location of the capital of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, and the history books record that the population of the Jingjue country is 3,336 people, and the army is 500 people. Xuanzang recorded in the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty": The land around the city is hot and humid, but the road in the middle of the city can only be passed. At the beginning of the last century, Western explorers found the site of Niya through a detailed study of the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty".

Some say that the Elite Kingdom perished in quicksand, others say that it perished in foreign invasions, and when faced with the well-preserved ruins of Niya, people have to overturn this view. The final explanation can only be that Yichang's sudden natural and man-made disasters caused the exquisite residents to flee from the city without caring about packing up their gold and silver treasures, and as a result, they never returned. ”

Xiao Qiqi began to tell the knowledge of the thirty-six ancient countries of the Western Regions seriously, and she looked like an expert.

She continued: "I believe that what everyone wants to know most is the ancient kingdom of Loulan and its various unsolved mysteries.

Loulan is a country of beauty, 4000 years before the rise of the Loulan Kingdom, there was a nomadic blonde and blue-eyed primitive European race living in this area, they left a few thousand years of dried corpses for descendants, and they left mysteriously, you know, Loulan beauty, that is the real beauty.

How did Loulan die, and what about the mysterious Europeans? We don't know. Some believe that Loulan disappeared from the war. Others believe that Loulan perished due to drought and water shortage, and that after Han Dynasty soldiers intercepted the river channel in the upper reaches of the Peacock River, people had to leave Loulan due to water shortages downstream. It is also said that the disappearance of Loulan is related to the opening of the northern route of the Silk Road. It is also said that Loulan was destroyed by the plague disease. ”

"Of course, there are other mysteries of the disappearance of ancient kingdoms, which are still unsolved mysteries. Little Kiki said without panting.

Everyone listened very attentively, but the knowledge that Xiao Qiqi knew was nothing more than extracted from the usual large amount of reading, and the knowledge learned in the desert notebook could not know the secrets of this ancient city.

"Kiki, can you tell from these two stone pillars which ancient country this ancient city is? Wu Lei asked curiously.

Little Kiki blinked her big eyes and looked intently at the creatures on the two stone pillars, and she whispered, "This creature on the left looks like a wolf. ”

"Kiki said this, it's really a bit like ah, the main thing is that the head seems to be badly damaged, and the overall damage looks like a wolf king who looks up at the night sky and howls. Zhentian said seriously.

"It's like a wolf sitting with its head up. "The big tiger also found out.

"So let's say it's a wolf totem. Lin Yumai said.

Kiki's eyes rolled as she looked at the statue on another pillar, but it was a little seeping because the eyes of the sculpture seemed to be looking at her.

She made up her mind, looked at it carefully, and said in detail: "This sculpture looks like an eagle, but it is not like it at all, because his wings are closed, and his head does not seem to be as sharp as that of an eagle, and his eyes seem to be full of evil." ”

"It's a crow!" At this time, the black wolf immediately jumped out, and he nodded very affirmatively and said, "It can't be wrong if it's a crow." ”

"Crows?"

"Such a big crow?" Wang Zitao looked at the bird on the stone carving in surprise, and then looked at the wolf king, these two are almost the same size, how can there be a crow as big as the wolf king.

"So, it's really like that, but this crow's eyes are a little scary, how do you feel like it's alive. Zhentian nodded and said with palpitations.

After Zhentian finished speaking, everyone had an illusion, and they all felt that this crow was staring at them.

I felt a chill rise from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.

"I'll go, don't be so scary in the middle of the night, my little heart can't stand it. Wang Zitao said.

"One is a wolf totem, the other is a crow totem, and the belief in this country is too strange. Bai Lishan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, said with an uneasy face.

"In ancient times, the wolf represented the fighting spirit of Xiao and the crow represented the decaying death, do these two totems mean either war or death?" Wu Lei said.

"Fight or die, fight to death!" Lin Yumai said.

Xiao Qiqi opened his mouth and said: "If it is a wolf totem and a crow totem, I think of one of the ancient kingdoms of the Western Regions, the Wusun Kingdom!"

Everyone looked at Xiao Qiqi puzzled, the country he said, no one here has probably heard of it.

And the thirty-six countries they know about the most are Loulan and the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom, and the other 34 countries may not have heard of it, what the hell is the Wusun Kingdom?

"It is said in ancient books that wolves and crows are the totems of the country of Wusun, and the people of Wusun love wolves and crows, rather than regard them as demons and unlucky ghosts like other countries and peoples, and we think this is the reason. However, it is not difficult for us to judge that the story of the wolf and the crow teaming up to save the little prince of Wusun is just a legend and has not really happened, and the reason why people make up such an absurd story is precisely because the rise of any great country needs a little mythology. Here, myths are no longer myths, but some kind of demand hidden in people's hearts, either the "providence" made up by those who have ghosts in their hearts to pat them on the pilgrimage in order to please them, or the good deeds are just nonsense, just like some so-called historical playwrights now, as if not tampering with history beyond recognition is not enough to prove their creative ability. Kiki said.

(End of chapter)