The square is densely covered with skeletons in uniform postures. Each skeleton is in a posture, its whole body prostrate on the ground, its hands stretched high in front of it, its head and hands facing the ancient pagoda, and it poses in a posture of throwing its body to the ground, as if praying reverently for something.

At a distance of hundreds of meters, thousands of skeletons were lying there quietly in such a uniform posture, this scene made everyone feel extremely shocked and weird, and the island was silent.

"Oh God, I can't believe what I saw?"

"So many skeletons, who are they? How did you end up dying here? ”

"Why would they die in such a strange position? Are they worshipping, or are they begging for something? ”

"Are they ............?"

After the shock, all the people screamed and asked all kinds of questions, of course they didn't think that the people around them could give them answers, but they still asked all the doubts in their hearts, people didn't need to get answers right away, it was just a kind of psychological catharsis after the shock.

"Stop arguing, everyone!" Professor Li Yaping suddenly shouted loudly, looked at the ancient pagoda not far away with blazing eyes, and said: "It's useless to speculate, let's go to the ancient pagoda and talk about it, maybe, all the answers are there!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Yaping looked at James meaningfully, and seeing the scene in front of him, Li Yaping also felt that something was wrong, but still asked with a smile: "Professor James, what is your opinion?" Before that, only you knew about the existence of this ancient tower. Right now. Don't you want to give us a little advice? ”

"Dear Lee. I don't think I have any opinions! Professor James just shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said, "I just know from the ancient books that there is such an ancient tower, but I don't know anything about the others, so I personally think that your opinion is very correct, we should go to the ancient tower first, don't we?" ”

Li Yaping stared at James for a while. Finally, he turned around and said, "Okay, let's go to the ancient tower first, and be careful with your step." ”

According to the original formation, Zheng Shuxin and the others walked in front, carefully choosing a place to stay, trying to avoid the skeletons on the ground, and walking towards the ancient tower step by step. It's just that the skeletons on the ground are so dense that someone will always accidentally touch them, just touch them lightly. The skeletons will immediately scatter all over the place, sometimes with a domino effect. Several skeletons were scattered in quick succession.

And those who accidentally touched these skeletons were often those armed police soldiers who were supposed to be the most skilled. After all, they can't keep their heads down and look at their feet like the people of the archaeological team, but they still have the task of protection, and they must always be vigilant to observe the surrounding environment and changes.

In this way, the archaeological team lowered their heads all the way, carefully dodged the skeletons on the ground, and came to the front of the ancient tower under the protection of the armed police soldiers.

In front of the ancient pagoda is a boxy, about one meter high, more than a dozen square stone platforms, like an altar, but there is no offering table, sacrifice or anything like that, only a dozen messy skeletons. Yes, it's messy, these dozen skeletons are not like the skeletons in the square, posing like they are throwing themselves to the ground, but they are messy, there are all kinds of postures, and even some of the bones are broken, and they look like a mess.

Due to the limited area of the stone platform, only Li Yaping, Eri Demutu, James and Jessica climbed the stone platform, and the others were doing observation and research under the stone platform.

The small dozen square stone platforms were clear at a glance, and everyone quickly ended the search, except for a dozen skeletons, only a piece of nitrated sheepskin was found, which was placed on the only skeleton sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, so that at first everyone thought it was not rotten and almost neglected it.

Li Yaping carefully held the sheepskin, and walked down the stone platform with Eri Demutu, James and Jessica, and everyone gathered around. I saw that it was densely written with ancient Mongolian characters, and among the people, only Li Yaping, Eri Demutu and James had studied it, and the three of them carried out research and translation work on the words on the sheepskin, and Chu Junwei was recording and sorting out the translation of the three people on the side.

Finally, the work of translating and sorting out the records was over, and Chu Junwei read out the contents of the sheepskin to everyone in a language that everyone could understand.

The contents of this sheepskin were written by the lama sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, his name was Sampo, and the other dozen or so bones on the stone platform were all his personal disciples.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Great Khan of Mongolia was still Meng Ge, and Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, had not yet ascended the throne and became emperor. Sampo was one of the first monks to spread Tibetan Buddhism in the Mongolian steppes, and he and a dozen of his disciples traveled the steppes all day long to spread the teachings to the herders who lived in the grasslands.

Later, he and his disciples stumbled upon a passage to the depths of the underground and entered a large underground cave complex, where they discovered the cave where the archaeological team is now located.

According to the sheepskin, the ancient pagoda already existed when Sampo and his disciples discovered it, and they believed that it was the work of the gods, so they stayed here and worshipped the Buddha under the pagoda every day. After some time, Sampo and his disciples were surprised to find that some changes had taken place in their bodies, and they possessed some magical and powerful abilities, and one by one they became infinitely powerful and galloping.

Coupled with the fact that they themselves know some kung fu, and with these abilities obtained by accident, more than a dozen masters and apprentices immediately became masters with outstanding skills. They drove out horse thieves, slaughtered wild animals, protected herders, and soon established their prestige in the steppes and spread Tibetan Buddhism.

They believed that all this was given by the gods, so they did not build their own temples on the ground, but found another way, and took great pains to build their own temples deep underground, where they must pass to enter the cave, guarding the tower of the gods (that is, the ancient tower in front of the archaeological team).

With the increasing number of believers, the scale of the temple is also growing, after nearly 30 years of development, it has become a large temple with 1,200 monks and more than 100,000 believers, and the imperial court has also canonized them. (To be continued......)