Chapter 207: The Ancient City of Loulan
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The boundless darkness was constantly surging under this small spark, trying to devour the sparkling fire, but the flickering little flame was very tenacious, and the dim little flame kept making a burning sound.
There was silence all around, although the sound of the fire burning was very small, but there was still some voice of hope, breaking the dead silence here, like a small grass to bring a little life to this dead space.
"I've got torches here." Li Lao also took out a torch directly out of nowhere.
"Whirring ......"
The torch was lit in an instant, and the firelight flew out directly to a height of more than three feet, and the firelight instantly illuminated the surrounding radius of thousands of meters, and the huge castle hidden in the boundless darkness also revealed the general outline.
This castle has a radius of hundreds of miles, the yellow city wall, the thick city gate, the city gate is hundreds of zhang high, hang this pair of huge plaques above the city gate, and write these three big characters "Loulan City" on the huge plaque.
The three big characters are ancient seals, each word is five meters square, the three big characters are natural, strong and powerful, the three words are like and this Lou Lan City has been integrated, it is natural, and the three words do not know how many years of sharpness and this Lou Lan ancient city have experienced together, but also with the vicissitudes of life and an indescribable sadness.
Even if Bai Yuchan looked at it for a while at this time, he felt that there was a sense of compassion and compassion in the depths of his heart for no reason.
"I'm afraid this ancient city has been silent here for thousands of years, otherwise it will definitely not be able to shake my mind." Bai Yuchan retracted his gaze, and said in his heart.
"This ...... How could it be ......" After Li Lao saw the huge three big characters at this time, his eyes were full of shock and disbelief.
"What we see should be right, this is the ancient city of Loulan that has been lost in the long river of history." The fat venerable had basically recovered his true yuan at this time, and he immediately moved closer to the ancient city, and said in his mouth.
"Loulan Ancient City, how could it appear here, what kind of place is this, why is it so dark, even the starlight in the sky is gone." The Thin Venerable raised his head at this time to look at the sky, and suddenly noticed something abnormal.
"It's a little weird here, it seems that the surroundings are forbidden and sealed, and my divine sense can't detect the surroundings." Bai Yuchan withdrew his divine sense, and was suddenly a little frightened. Although he has no fear, he still has an instinctive defense against some mysteries.
Although he was a powerful immortal in his previous life, in this world, there are still many unknown secret realms, and even the super powers in the Three Realms have no confidence to break through.
There are some secret realms that even if Da Luo Jin Immortal enters it, he is estimated to be in danger of dying, not to mention the current Bai Yuchan, after all, he only has an innate realm that can be seen. And now facing the unknown huge ancient city in front of me, I also have some heart palpitations in my heart.
"What are we doing now, this space has been completely blocked, and it's basically impossible to get out."
"Yes, since we were attracted here by the ghost flute, and it didn't hurt us, let's go down the river and see what the magic flute has in mind after attracting us here!" The Fat Venerable looked at the tall city wall, and there was some madness in his eyes.
"Didn't this Loulan Ancient City say that it had disappeared into the long river of history, how could it appear here?" Bai Yuchan hurriedly asked, although he was not a native of China, he still had some understanding of the history of China.
The ancient city of Loulan, an important historical site in China, is located in the west of Lop Nur, the hub of the Western Regions, and occupies an extremely important position on the ancient Silk Road. Silk and tea from the interior of China, horses, grapes, and jewelry from the Western Regions were all traded through Loulan at the earliest. The ancient kingdom of Loulan was founded before 176 B.C., but suddenly and mysteriously disappeared in 630 A.D., leaving only a ruin standing quietly in the desert.
Today's ancient city of Loulan is only surrounded by walls, more than 10 places have collapsed, and the intermittent walls stand alone. The urban area is square in shape, with an area of about 120,000 square meters. The panorama of the Loulan ruins is ancient and dignified, and the dilapidated architectural remains in the city are lifeless.
This is the current status of the Loulan monuments in China, and the Loulan monuments have also been verified by many historians and archaeologists.
In March 1900, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin traveled east along the Tarim River to the lower reaches of the Peacock River, in search of the elusive Lop Nur. Later, the expedition reached a mound. At this point, something bad happened, and Sven Hedin discovered that the water they had brought was leaking a lot.
In an arid desert, the absence of water equals death, which is undoubtedly a nightmare. So they went to find a water source for them, and an incredible scene happened, and an ancient city appeared before their eyes: there were walls, streets, houses, and even beacons......
And the ancient city is very old, obviously not the architectural style of the time......
Sven Hedin excavated a large number of artifacts in the ancient city, including coins, silk fabrics, grain, pottery, 36 pieces of paper with Chinese characters, 120 bamboo slips, and a few brushes, and most importantly, he found that the buildings buried in the sand were well preserved, with almost no signs of man-made damage, and most importantly, no signs of human death in those buildings......
Obviously, the entire ancient city of Loulan is very weird, something happened instantly, and all the residents disappeared in an instant......
After Sven Hedin returned to China, he had the relics professionally appraised. After identification, he finally determined that the ancient city was the famous ancient kingdom of Loulan......
After this news ship sailed, it directly shocked the whole world, and subsequently, expeditions from many countries followed......
Through the long-term unremitting efforts of historians and cultural relics scholars, the veil of mystery of the ancient kingdom of Loulan has been lifted.
In 1979, the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology organized the Loulan archaeological team to begin the investigation and investigation of the ancient road of the ancient city of Loulan. In the lower reaches of the Peacock River, which leads to the road to Loulan, the archaeological team discovered a large number of ancient tombs.
Several of the tombs have a peculiar and spectacular appearance: around the tombs are seven layers of thin and thick logs, and outside the circle are rows of trees that spread out in a radial shape. The whole shape is like a big sun, which can't help but make people have all kinds of mysterious associations.
That is, the famous "Sun Tomb"!
What exactly it means remains a mystery to this day.
According to the research of archaeologists and the inference of historians, several claims of the disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan were finally derived......
Claim 1: Loulan disappeared from the war. After the fifth century AD, the kingdom of Loulan began to weaken, the northern powers invaded, the city of Loulan was broken, and then abandoned.
Claim 2: Loulan decayed due to drought, water shortage, ecological deterioration, and the upstream river was cut off and diverted, and people had to leave Loulan. Loulan has promulgated the world's earliest environmental protection law ever discovered.
Claim 3: The disappearance of Loulan is related to the opening of the northern Silk Road. After the opening of the North Silk Road through Hami (Yiwu) and Turpan, the ancient desert road of the Silk Road through Loulan was abandoned, and Loulan also lost its former glory.
Claim 4: Loulan was destroyed by the plague. A plague from other places took the lives of the ten ** residents in Loulan City, and those who were lucky enough to survive fled Loulan one after another.
Claim 5: Loulan was defeated by biological invasion. A mole cricket insect introduced from the two river basins, which has no natural enemies in Loulan and lives in the soil, can live on the white plaster soil of the Loulan area, and enters the houses in groups, and people cannot eliminate them, so they have to abandon the city.
Although these conclusions are the conclusions reached by those archaeologists and old scholars who have studied for decades, many people still have some conjectures about the disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan.
At this time, Bai Yuchan and the others were facing the mysterious ancient city of Loulan in front of them, and they all had their own thoughts in their hearts.
"It seems that the mystery of the disappearance of the ancient city of Loulan is about to be solved here......" Bai Yuchan looked at the thick city gate, and secretly said in his heart, he was also full of curiosity about this ancient city, although he knew that there was danger in it, but he still couldn't help the curiosity in his heart about this mysterious ancient city of Loulan.
"Why are we just waiting here?"
"No, we'll go in now!"
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A few people suddenly said word by word, only Bai Yuchan was tightly frowning on the side, at this time he wanted to use his divine sense to explore this Loulan Ancient City, and wanted to see what existed in this city.
Just a moment later, he gave up......
There was a mysterious thing in this ancient city, which directly blocked the penetration of his divine sense......
"If you want to enter, we won't be able to open this city gate......," Bai Yuchan said helplessly at this time.
"I don't know how many years have passed since I looked at the ancient city, so I'll go and see if the gate is still very strong." The fat venerable shook the fat of his body and walked directly to the city wall several feet high, and he was like a little bit at this time.
The fat venerable's whole body trembled, and the whole person suddenly turned into a muscular man who exuded explosive power all over his body, and after roaring, he slammed directly into the tall city gate......
A strange scene appeared, the city gate was about to hit the huge city gate just as the fat venerable was about to hit the huge city gate, but the city gate opened automatically......
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