Buffy's vision is exactly the same as "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" in Lin Mingyang's memory, and the terracotta warriors and Tibetan provinces, which are completely out of tune in Lin Mingyang's eyes, are a wonderful combination in Buffy's eyes. Because in his consciousness, as the roof of the world, Tibet Province is as mysterious as the Terracotta Army, and these two mysterious elements are matched together, which can not only attract people's attention, but also satisfy the audience's curiosity, so as to create more box office.

The more Buffy talked, the more excited he became, but he ignored Lin Mingyang's increasingly gloomy face, and when he came back to his senses and realized this problem, Lin Mingyang's expression was already full of impatience. Buffy pretended to be thirsty for coffee, stopped his high-minded talk, and when he brought the cup to his mouth, he couldn't help but raise his eyes and peek at Lin Mingyang's expression.

Buffy's gaze collided with Lin Mingyang, and he coughed twice in embarrassment to hide his embarrassment, but there was still a fever at the root of his ears.

"There can be no terracotta warriors in Tibetan Province." Lin Mingyang shook his head with a facial expression, "This is common sense!" ”

Buffy felt that Lin Mingyang's words were alluding to his ignorance. He suddenly felt a lot of thorns around him, and even the mellow coffee in his mouth turned into a bitter potion, and he didn't swallow it after several efforts.

Seeing that the situation was a little stiffened by himself, Lin Mingyang's tone softened slightly, "I think Mr. Buffy may have been misled by that film, most of the terracotta warriors and horses are filled with soil instead of living people, and it is used as a kind of funeral goods to accompany the dead instead of the living." ”

As soon as Lin Mingyang's attitude relaxed, Buffy immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he nodded suddenly, and sat down again, "Since Mr. Felix knows so much about Chinese culture, he must have a better idea?" ”

was countered to the army, Lin Mingyang was not flustered, but he had a formed story in his heart, but before telling his story, Lin Mingyang decided to take the test for Buffy first, "Have you heard of the explorer Sven Hedin?" ”

"Of course!" In order to shoot this film, Buffy himself did his homework, "In Sweden, his name can be on par with Nobel!" ”

Lin Mingyang nodded, "In Heding's expedition career, there are two achievements that have made him famous all over the world. One is to discover the ancient city of Loulan, and the other is to fill in a large gap in Tibetan Province on the map. Of course, this is all from a European point of view, and Hedin, through precise descriptions, first incorporated them into the Western body of knowledge. ”

"I've read his biography, and I think he should have been a world-class icon in his time, when many Western leaders were proud to befriend Heding, and the British Governor in India, Lord Kouren, promised to provide all the conditions to help Heding explore Tibet, but unfortunately he immediately left his post." Buffy finally found a talking point with Lin Mingyang on a common topic, and his excellent eloquence finally has room to show.

"But the Chinese don't see it that way, and they classify Hedin as a Juming Cooker explorer like Stein!"

"But it's not fair!" Buffy's emotions suddenly became excited, "Without Heding, the Chinese don't know when they will discover the ancient city of Loulan, and he has also explored many unknown areas of Tibetan Province..."

"But these things did not bring tangible benefits to China at that time, on the contrary, a large number of cultural relics were taken away by Western explorers." Lin Mingyang made a very imaginary analogy, "If the original manuscript of the American Declaration of Freedom is placed in a museum in China, as an American, you want to study this period of history, and you get an application from China, and then you get just a photocopied attachment, what would you think?" ”

Buffy was speechless, and Lin Mingyang then joked: "In Europe and the United States, all the famous museums can see Chinese cultural relics, but I have never heard that there are foreign cultural relics in that museum in China." Today, the collections of museums in Europe and the United States are so rich, and Hedin and the explorers who came after him owe a lot of money! ”

"I've read Hedin's autobiography, My Adventure, and in his view, Xinjiang and Tibet are just China's spheres of influence, not China itself. Respect for China's sovereignty was much later. In this sense, it is not wrong for the Chinese to attribute him to the Colony Ming Cooky Explorer. ”

Buffy had a bewildered look on his face, "Is the evaluation of Hedin himself good or bad, does this have anything to do with our film?" ”

"Of course it does!" Lin Mingyang put away the playful expression on his face, "The ancestors of the Egyptians are not ancient Egyptians, no matter how Hollywood films are made, they will not have much impact on the current Egyptians, but the process of Chinese civilization has not disappeared like ancient Egypt, and their ancestors lived in that land thousands of years ago." If the film does not want to miss the Chinese market, then the basic theme ideas in the film cannot touch the sensitive bottom line of the Chinese. ”

Seeing that Buffy still didn't understand it, Lin Mingyang gave another example: "Just like Stein is a shameful robber in the eyes of the Chinese, he stole a large number of cultural relics from Dunhuang and sold them to Europe." But in the eyes of Europeans, Stein is a brave adventurer, and it is best not to appear in the film about these controversial topics and characters! ”

"You wait!" Buffy took out a notebook from his bag, took out a brush and recorded the main points that Lin Mingyang said.

After having said so much, the coffee cups in front of the two of them had already been seen, and after letting the waiter change, Lin Mingyang began to tell the story he had already conceived, of course, in the beginning of the film, in order to connect with the first two films of "The Mummy", he made some modifications.

"The mirage-like legend of the 'sand-buried ancient city' has been circulating for centuries among the inhabitants of Kashgar, Rajlik, Malabashi, Yarkand, the oasis on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Lord Conston of England was also an adventurer, and his father once traveled with Hedin across the Taklamakan Desert and then left behind an astonishing secret. ”

"It is said that in addition to discovering the ancient city of Loulan in the Taklamakan Desert, Heding also discovered another mysterious ancient city, under which there is a place called the 'ghost cave' in Conston's father's chronicles, which is said to be full of airports and traps, and it seems to preserve a rare treasure! Unfortunately, the entire expedition was in a situation of lack of water at that time, so it hurried back without going deep into it. Later, Hedin entered China several times, and it seems that it was related to the mysterious ancient city that was not made public by him. ”

In 1902, Conston organized an expedition into the Taklamakan Desert, but in the end he was left in vain. In order to fulfill his father's legacy, Constance organized another expedition into Xinjiang Province after the end of World War I. According to the clues left by his father, Conston made a major breakthrough in this expedition, and they seemed to have found the ancient city that was more mysterious than Loulan, but in the end, due to disagreements within the expedition, the expedition ended in vain. ”

Having learned the lessons of his failure, Constance returned to England after 10 years of preparation, culminating in 1933 to organize a massive expedition into the heart of the Taklamakan Desert. They split up and explored, but in the end they returned only with one expedition, and the other Constance himself led the expedition into the vast Taklamakan Desert, where they were never heard from. ”

Just the beginning of a story had already fascinated Buffy, and when Lin Mingyang stopped to drink coffee, he couldn't help but ask, "Did he find that mysterious ancient city?" ”

Lin Mingyang shrugged his shoulders while drinking coffee, Buffy realized that he was a little anxious, he smiled, and then obediently closed his mouth.

Everyone thought Conston had died in the desert, but his daughter Sophie was convinced that he was still alive and decided to organize an expedition to collect her father, but she lacked an experienced and trustworthy companion to accompany her. At this time, she was recommended to O'Connor, who lived in London. ”

Since the victory over the Scorpion King, life for the O'Connor family has returned to normal, but Sophie's visit has shattered the peace. Moved by Sophie's eagerness to find her father, O'Connor decides to help her, and Rachel, who has become Mrs. O'Connor, is also an adventurous woman, and her brother John Hana, the four of them lead an expedition to the Taklamakan Desert again. ”

"In an oasis town on the edge of the desert, the expedition team learned from the local population about an ancient and mysterious ancient city. Once upon a time, there was a powerful nation in the desert, and their ruler was a beautiful queen. This queen loved the people like a son and was deeply supported by the people, but because she was too kind-hearted, she was poisoned by the rebellious minister. ”

"The vicious usurper put the queen's body into a coffin made of special wood, in which the body never decayed. According to the legend, if a person's body does not decompose after death, then her soul will be imprisoned forever in ** and cannot be liberated. The usurper killed all the ministers loyal to the queen and threw them all into a bottomless pit beneath the palace, where the queen's coffin was stored. In order to prevent anyone from discovering this secret, the usurper laid layers of mechanisms at the entrance of the cave. When he had done all this, disaster struck, and a terrible plague broke out throughout the country, and the ensuing civil strife dragged the once-powerful country into the abyss of destruction. And the ancient city where the queen's body was stored was also cursed, and no one who entered it could come out alive. ”

Sophie realizes that this legend is probably about the ancient city that her father Constance has been searching for, and that Conston is probably related to this strange legend. Following the clues left by Conston after returning from his first expedition, they entered the Taklamakan Desert. ”

(To be continued)