The appearance of these two dead bodies is very strange, one is kneeling on the futon before his death, and the other is sitting on the Hu chair, judging from the posture of the two, it should be the Central Plains people talking to the people of the Western Regions, of course, the conversation is unknown, the secret room in front of them can retain this posture, and the scene of the year, Zhang Meng and the fat man already feel very strange.

Without waiting for the fat man to speak, Ouyang on the side said, "It seems that there was an accident here. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Meng agreed: "If it weren't for a sudden accident, I wouldn't have retained this posture before I died." ”

"That's right, and because of the unique geography here, a sealed space has been created, so this secret room has not been damaged." After Ouyang finished speaking, his face was suspicious: "But I don't know, what happened to them, they didn't even notice it, and they died in the conversation." ”

"But did you notice anything?" The fat man said suddenly.

"Notice what?"

"These two people!" The fat man hurriedly said: "You see, the coffin we opened just now was full of bones that were half human and half beasts, and these two skeletons were obviously human, and they didn't look strange at all. ”

"Really." Zhang Meng couldn't help but look at the bones in front of him again.

"Don't guess, I think there are bamboo slips there." Ouyang saw at a glance the bamboo slip placed between the two skeletons.

"Really."

Seeing that the fat man reached out to touch the bamboo slip, Ouyang hurriedly knocked his hand off and reminded: "Be careful, although this was once a closed space, but as this Gobi Desert resurfaces from the desert and oxygen enters, everything here has begun to oxidize, and the bamboo slip itself is fragile, if you touch it so recklessly, it is very likely to turn into ashes." ”

"Hehe, I didn't want to see if there were any clues in it?" The fat man smirked.

At this time, Xu Zhi, an ancient corpse expert who examined the bones, had already made a preliminary conclusion.

"How? Can you determine what age it is? Ouyang asked.

"The preliminary identification should be in the Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin dynasties, and the specific age will be returned to the camp for carbon 14 testing." Xu Zhi said competently.

"Hmm." Ouyang was obviously pleased with the result.

"It's really the descendants of those ancient peoples of Bashu." The fat man thought for a while and said, "But didn't you say before that this might be an ancient relic beyond the Xia Shang Zhou?" ”

"It seems that only the Sun Tomb outside is like this." Ouyang explained: "And this place should be the same as the Xiaowan ruins found before, which belongs to the later Western Regions architecture. It was a place specially used to store corpses during the Han and Han dynasties. ”

After listening to Ouyang's explanation, everyone was a little disappointed.

But no matter what, since they have all come in, everyone has to figure out everything first.

At this time, Ouyang asked Xu Zhi next to him how to open the bamboo slip and check the text on it.

Although Xu Zhi is not specifically responsible for the protection of cultural relics, he is also a member of the expert group, and he still understands simple common sense, so he immediately said: "The processing equipment is outside, and I have to send someone to pick up Professor Niu!" He's a master at that. ”

"Okay." Ouyang nodded immediately, turned around and signaled to the two little soldiers beside him, and the two immediately went back with their guns, and after a while, the two came in with an old man with a dark face and a white beard, and an aluminum alloy box, and in the expectant and eager eyes of everyone, a new round of processing work was launched.

After tossing for a while, Professor Niu wiped his sweat and looked at everyone excitedly and nervously: "Big discovery, big discovery." ”

"What's the big discovery?" Seeing that Professor Niu was so nervous, the fat man asked with a happy face.

Everyone's attention was attracted by Professor Niu's expression, and they all stared at Professor Niu, as if waiting for him to say something.

"This should be a correspondence between the Han Dynasty and the local small countries in the Western Regions."

"The correspondence between the Han Dynasty and the small countries of the Western Regions?" The fat man suddenly looked back at the pile of books and said, "No wonder I said that the books in here are so familiar." But if you want to talk about the book, it should be the Western Han Dynasty from the chronological point of view, right? ”

"Not necessarily." Zhang Meng waved his hand: "Although Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty invented papermaking, it was not popularized, and even most people in the Wei and Jin dynasties used bamboo slips. It depends on the specific when, then it has to be Professor Niu. ”

"That's right, but ......" Professor Niu said with a little regret: "It's a pity that all the letters above have been passwordd, and I'm afraid that they can't be cracked for the time being by the current means. ”

"Password?" Zhang Meng looked back at the fat man.

The fat man shook his head: "The text code is not easy to get, if you want to crack it, I'm afraid it won't work for half a month." ”

"What about the text?" Zhang Meng asked nervously.

"It's also densed." Although Professor Niu said this, his expression was obviously a little excited.

The fat man was afraid that he would play tricks, so he immediately said in a weird way: "Hmph! I'm afraid that some people have already done their homework and won't tell us. ”

Seeing this, Ouyang smiled and motioned for Professor Niu to explain directly, and when Professor Niu saw Ouyang nodding, he said: "I won't talk about the specific literature, I'll briefly talk about the usefulness of these things!" ”

After speaking, Professor Niu pointed to the strange bones in the sarcophagus.

"Is there a record on the bamboo slip?" The fat man asked.

"That's right." Professor Niu nodded: "These sarcophagi and the corpses in the sarcophagus are all used to pay tribute to the Loulan Kingdom!" ”

"What's that?" The fat man shouted loudly and said hurriedly: "Loulan again?" And fucking use these half-human, half-beast monsters as a tribute? You're not kidding, are you? Who's paying tribute with these things! Is it for the burial of the dead? ”

"That's right, it's a tribute for sacrifice." Looking at the surprised and frightened people, Professor Lou nodded and retold the story he saw on the bamboo slips to everyone present.

"It turns out that after the ancient kingdom of Loulan became the strongest country in the Western Regions, they not only relied on a powerful army to threaten the Xiaowan kingdom to use their people as sacrifices, but even the surrounding other countries also received all kinds of threats from the ancient kingdom of Loulan."

"The weak and the end of the kingdom is one of them!"

"And the end of the country was originally one of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, although the territory is not large, the army is not much, and the strength is also very weak among the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, but they are on the Silk Road, and the merchants come and go very frequently, which naturally drives the local economy, and the country gradually becomes rich......" i640