Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Temple of the Sun (I)

There were some fluttering video interferences along the way, but after Mr. Min's explanation, it did not cause greater panic, the two sides were like people from two worlds, meeting by chance in this natural large video recorder, each performing their own roles, under the dim flashlight, Xia Ruobing saw the images replayed again and again, they have been tirelessly replayed countless times, no one knows when it started, and no one knows when it will end.

Mr. Min had travelled this way, so he was familiar with the road, and he ignored the junction to the west and headed straight north.

"Are you sure you're ready to witness the miracles underground?" Mr. Min stopped, turned back and smiled mysteriously at everyone, "Xia Ruobing, you will be very happy." ”

The long corridor ends here, and after a few steps forward, Mr. Min turns on the flashlight, and everyone looks at everything in front of them in amazement!

A magnificent underground palace appeared in front of me, perhaps it is more appropriate to say that the underground world is here, the ground here is yellow, these poor-grade hematite ground happens to be the color of the yellow sand, although it has experienced earthquakes, but it is still basically intact, the west wall is a big crack, a stream of water gurgling out of the crack, two "canals" artificially carved out of the ground, they meandered through the "town" and "desert", and flowed into a large pool of water, The water in the pool flows out of the cracks in the wall, and it is not known where it ends up.

This palace is like a huge sand table, the city wall surrounds a wall, and there are some stone carvings on the city wall, although this "wall" was mostly destroyed in the earthquake, but you can clearly recognize those small people as the soldiers guarding it, and in an open space in the city, many small stone figures were dumped there, and this is a bazaar, and since they were carved, they have been frozen here until an earthquake destroys their "trade".

There are a number of villages around the castle outside the castle, they are scattered arching the castle, by the river and the lake, there are some villains leading camels and horses, on the "dunes" of the distant desert, there is also a camel caravan, the whole scene is vivid, under the huge sun of the dome, the sound of gurgling water is in the ears, and the melodious camel bells and the noise in the market also pass through that distant history, reflecting the scene of a thriving desert kingdom in everyone's minds.

Further afield, there are smaller castles, many of which have not yet been completed, some of which have been destroyed by rockfalls from the earthquake, but you can still roughly discern the location and what it once looked like.

"Loulan?!" Xia Ruobing was really shocked! This scene is the Loulan that he has appeared in countless dreams.

"This is the Tarim River, this is the Peacock River, the mother river of Loulan, and this is the Lop Nur that has dried up!" Xia Ruobing looked at the terrain and recognized at a glance that the water was composed of the water source of Loulan in ancient times.

"Then this is the main city of Loulan? These are ......," Wang Xingguo asked, pointing to Chengguo.

"To the far west is the ancient city of Niya!" Xia Ruobing ran to the west near the crack, and the water flowed out from here, where there was a city sculpture that was almost completely destroyed.

"This is the river, the place where the beauty of Loulan is found! This one is Milan! The place where the Han Dynasty once garrisoned Tuntian was also the capital of Shanshan later! ”

"Yes, this is the topography of Guloulan, it is south of the Peacock River, west of Lop Nur, along the water source, Xia Ruobing, I am not wrong, here are the remnants of Loulan!" Mr. Min couldn't contain his excitement.

Xia Ruobing walked into the largest city, most of the houses in the city had collapsed, and the place that used to be a palace was also destroyed, Xia Ruobing squatted down and looked carefully at the city wall more than half a meter high, the villain on the city wall has stood here for thousands of years, holding weapons in his hands, looking at Xia Ruobing and the others vigilantly.

But it didn't pose any threat to Xia Ruobing, Xia Ruobing blew lightly, and then carefully wiped the dust on the city wall, these stone carvings were limestone, and someone had worked tirelessly to carve these limestones, and brought them here to build them.

Chen Badai looked at the miniature sculpture of this city that had destroyed most of it, and his eyes were attracted by the collapsed palace in the middle, and in the collapsed rocks, a shining gem attracted his attention, and he wanted to walk in and take a look.

"Can't go in!" Xia Ruobing stopped him, this is precious research data, this city miniature sculpture reproduces the style of Loulan back then, she has reason to believe that every building and every street here is a reproduction of the real scene, and she can't tolerate any destruction.

Xia Ruobing's gaze moved down to the city gate along the miniature carved soldier, the city gate was still intact, and there were some words engraved in the middle, which were covered by floating dust and mud, and the pollution was carefully cleaned up, and a line of familiar Lu Wen appeared in front of Xia Ruobing's eyes.

"Loulan! This is really Loulan! ”

The most direct evidence that Xia Ruobing wants has now appeared, and the Lu Wen in the center of the city gate is engraved with the word "Loulan"!

Taking advantage of Xia Ruobing and Mr. Min's work around the city, Wang Xingguo walked along the edge and found that there were a total of 8 passages here, and a little measurement will show that these 8 passages are exactly due southeast, northwest, and northeast, southwest and other four oblique directions, each passage is engraved with different Lu script, Wang Xingguo can't understand, guessing that it should be the letter that indicates the direction.

Sherpa looked at the underground palace in amazement, and then looked up at the dome, although the dome collapsed in some places, but it was still largely intact, the curved dome was about ten to six or seven meters high from the ground, like a canopy shrouded in miniature sculptures on the earth, in the center was a round of sun, the sun was inlaid with sparkling gemstones, shining in the light of Sherpa flashlight, the rest of the dome was also inlaid with other constellations, Sherpa recognized Orion, Ursa Major and other constellations, these are the most famous constellations in the northern night sky.

A third of the canopy was cracked and collapsed, and Sherpa walked over to the ruins, bent down and picked up a sparkling gem in the rubble and wiped off the soil, it was about the size of a thumb, it used to be a star on the canopy, and approached the flashlight, this gem was beautifully carved, the hexagonal pyramidal gem was carefully cut and polished, and finally set in the dome, becoming a constellation guarding the underworld, but it was shaken down in the earthquake and mixed with the rocks, Until Sherpa discovered it.

Sherpa looked up, trying to restore its position on the dome, what should it be? But the crumbling dome told him that his efforts were in vain.

"Mr. Xia, what good things did you pick up?" Chen Badai saw that Sherpa had picked up something and looked at it carefully, and it was still shiny, so he hurriedly asked.

"Crystal, it used to be set in the dome as a star." Sherpa replied.

"Crystal?!" Crystals aren't precious gemstones, but if you give them meaning, they don't have to!

Chen Badai raised his interest, those stone-carved city villains and camels were worthless to him, but if it was Loulan Crystal, this name alone could make Chen Badai make a fortune!

Thinking of this, Chen Badai approached the wreckage left by the collapsed dome and rummaged, there should be more crystals here.

Wang Xingguo got into the passage in the northeast, wanting to see if there would be a way out here, but not far into it, a stone door was blocked in front of him, this stone door has not been opened for a long time, Wang Xingguo heard the sound of gurgling water overhead, the crack in the wall next to the stone door is seeping water, it seems that there will be water flowing overhead, he saw a handle similar to a mechanism on the wall, and stepped forward to break it.

The handle of the stone carving was a little slippery, and it was finally broken off, but there was no reaction, Wang Xingguo knocked on the stone door hard, but there was still no response, so he had to retreat.

Wang Xingguo checked several stone doors in a row, the stone gate leading to the southwest was open, the deep Yongdao did not know how far away, Wang Xingguo did not continue to investigate, and the south passage was the place where he came in, and there was no passage out, the west passage collapsed seriously, it was impassable, the top of the cave on the east side seemed to be torn, the water leaked down loudly, and a waterfall was formed in front of the stone gate, and the switch handle did not know what to do, which made Wang Xingguo a little discouraged, and he could only pin his hopes on the stone gate in the north.

Xia Ruobing and Mr. Min carefully cleaned up the miniature carvings of the city, first cleaned up the streets in the city, the whole city is the central radiation distribution, the center is the palace and the square, the north of the palace is a square, those fallen warriors and horses can see that they are practicing war, this should be the Loulan military training school, the south of the palace is the bazaar, here cleaned up the most small stone people, small stone people are different shapes, dressed very differently, most of them are dressed as merchants, they bargain fiercely here, They exchanged the items they needed.