Chapter 50: The Tomb of Wu Yu

"Xia Ruobing? Xia Ruobing? Wake up, it's time to go. When Wang Xingguo woke up, he found that Xia Ruobing was wrapped around him like an octopus, and as soon as he pushed his hand away, his feet stepped up again, so he had no choice but to gently pat her face, trying to wake her up.

"Sleep a little longer." Xia Ruobing muttered in a daze, and her hand clenched again, "Quilt." ”

"Hey! Don't sleep, it's time to go! Wang Xingguo had no choice but to push her shoulders hard, Xia Ruobing finally opened her sleepy eyes, and met Wang Xingguo's close looks.

After being stunned for ten seconds, a scream sounded in Wang Xingguo's ears: "Ah......" Xia Ruobing jumped up like a frightened rabbit, and kicked it without waiting for Wang Xingguo to react.

"You...... I'll go ......" Wang Xingguo curled up in a ball again.

"Are you okay, are you okay......" Xia Ruobing panicked now, she was just a stress reaction just now, since she was a child, she has never had such "intimate contact" with a man, but this kick kicked Wang Xingguo's life again, and it would be miserable if he really kicked him badly.

"Don't come here...... Wang Xingguo rolled to the side and distanced himself from Xia Ruobing.

Wang Xingguo's distorted face finally recovered from its original appearance, and he turned his back and unbuttoned his belt for the second time to look at his baby, which seemed to be swollen again.

"Oh my God......" Wang Xingguo lamented, he was just an adventure coach, and he worked hard to earn a few small bucks, but he didn't want to cut off his children and grandchildren.

"Are you really okay?" Xia Ruobing asked cautiously.

"Xia Ruobing, if you beat me again, I'll really beat you!" Wang Xingguo shouted angrily.

"Oh......" Xia Ruobing was uneasy in her heart, and wanted to justify, "People haven't been taken advantage of." ”

"Shut up!" The second sentence shouted angrily, and Xia Ruobing shut up in a daze.

Twisting the filled kettle, Wang Xingguo handed it to Xia Ruobing with a gloomy face, packed up the equipment to confirm that there was no omission, Wang Xingguo walked to the other end of the passage, Xia Ruobing didn't dare to breathe, and followed closely.

Wang Xingguo walked very fast, he didn't want to wait for Xia Ruobing at all, Xia Ruobing knew that he was at a loss, and he didn't dare to speak along the way, and when he came to a fork in the road, Wang Xingguo didn't even remind her, and went straight to the left.

Xia Ruobing saw that the light of his flashlight flickered and turned to the left, and his eyes suddenly became dark, and he turned on his flashlight, and was suddenly attracted by something in the right passage.

It was a white stone slab, half cracked, leaning diagonally against the corner of the wall, Xia Ruobing stepped forward, looked into the right passage, and found that there were still some white stones inside.

"Wang Xingguo! This way! This way! Xia Ruobing shouted.

"Don't worry about it so much!" Wang Xingguo had seen those limestone slabs a long time ago, but he didn't want to waste time on this kind of thing.

About 6 hours have passed since the platform climbed, and time has ruthlessly taken away the power of the battery, and the battery may only last for about 40 hours, 40 hours is the golden time for survival, and after this time, the probability of survival is very slim.

Xia Ruobing hesitated for a moment, the flashlight shone on the leaning stone slab, and a fragmented text appeared in front of him: "Wang Xingguo!" There are words! Luwen! ”

"I'm really ......" Wang Xingguo was about to be driven crazy by Xia Ruobing, and scolded her ancestors for the eighteenth generation in her heart, and hurriedly turned back to find her, only to see Xia Ruobing burrowing into the passage, and the flashlight light was getting farther and farther.

"Xia Ruobing! Don't run around! Wang Xingguo yelled, but he could only speed up to catch up with her.

"Xia Ruobing, if you run around again, I'll ...... Well? What is this place?! Wang Xingguo caught up with Xia Ruobing and was about to scold her, but the stone room that appeared in front of him made him stunned.

The stone chamber in front of you is about 100 square meters, it is a circular stone chamber, the dome is about 4 meters high from the ground, the ground, walls and dome have been carefully processed, and there is a stone platform more than one meter high above the ground in the middle, and a white sarcophagus is placed on the stone platform! There are two stone figures in front of the sarcophagus, hanging their hands solemnly, behind the sarcophagus are stone statues of two camels, and on the ground is a dark red "carpet", and the sarcophagus and the stone platform also seem to be painted vermilion.

"Help me lift it up!" Xia Ruobing ignored Wang Xingguo's anger, and was struggling to carry a stone tablet in the stone room, which usually had important information engraved on it.

Wang Xingguo was helpless, stepped forward and lifted the stele, leaned it against the side of the stone platform, Xia Ruobing brushed away the red stained on the stele, and rubbed it on his fingers a few times: "Cinnabar!" ”

"All of this?" Wang Xingguo saw the ground he was walking on, and a series of footprints were printed on the ground, "Why are you sprinkling so much cinnabar here?" ”

Cinnabar was used as a pigment in ancient times, and was also used for embalming corpses, appearing here, most of them were used for embalming purposes, but cinnabar was also very precious in ancient times, so sprinkled on the ground and on the stone platform, how could it have the effect of embalming?

Xia Ruobing gently brushed off the cinnabar on the stele, revealing the original color of the stele and the handwriting engraved on it.

"Marble!"

"Huh?" While Xia Ruobing was working on the stone stele, Wang Xingguo took a closer look at the stone statue, which was carved from limestone, and marble was more difficult to process than others, and the price was of course very different from limestone.

After taking a closer look at the sarcophagus, which is also made of marble, Wang Xingguo was a little puzzled: "Whose cemetery is this?" ”

"This is the Tomb of Wu Yu"

"Wu Yu?"

"No, it's a wizard, his name is Yuyuki." Xia Ruobing explained, "Here are his records. ”

Wang Xingguo came over, Xia Ruobing pointed at those Lu Wen with his fingers paragraph by paragraph, and read softly: "Wu Qi has been, has been twenty-three generations, passed on Wu Yuzhi, and has not dared to slack off for more than 30 years. Therefore, it is said that Wu Di, remembering the prosperity of the homeland, blocking the prying eyes of foreign tribes, eternal life, the hard work of the remnants, the white bones along the way, the resentment of the north, do not forget, do not forget. ”

The beginning is that since the wizard named Qi, the generation of Yuzhi has gone through a total of 23 generations, and then recorded the achievements of Yuzhi for more than 30 years, under his leadership, Ding Xingwang, and established four more villages, and finally accumulated hard work, before his death, the heavy responsibility of the wizard was passed to another wizard named Di, the second half is a warning to Di, but only the remnants of the year, not to look at the homeland from afar, and along the way white bones, chasing the north of the resentment of these words, Wang Xingguo failed to understand.

Xia Ruobing took out the Lu Wen comparison table and confirmed that he had not mistranslated, this stele was the epitaph of the wizard Yu Zhi, although the identity of the owner was determined, but the amount of information recorded in this few sentences was still too little, judging from the record of the epitaph, their journey to move here was difficult, and they have been haunted by leaving their homeland.

But is this homeland Loulan? Why did they leave Loulan and travel thousands of miles to this mountainous area? Judging from the epitaph, they really hope to return to their homeland, but no one has tried the 23rd generation of wizards, is it ...... Is their homeland really gone?

Xia Ruobing turned his gaze to the sarcophagus, the sarcophagus is carved with exquisite reliefs all around, Xia Ruobing brightened the flashlight, and took a closer look, one side of the long side of the relief is carved with the scene of the witch's sacrifice, and the other side is some beasts and birds, there are wild wolves, camels, eagles, foxes, etc., Xia Ruobing turned to the middle to see, it is a starry sky map, in the center is the majestic Orion, the Big Dipper and some other constellations in the northern night sky are distributed near the constellation Orion.

Wang Xingguo inspected the other end of the sarcophagus, and he raised his head: "Xia Ruobing!" Does this Lu Wen mean Loulan? ”

Xia Ruobing rushed over, and the pattern on this side was a rectangular coffin placed in the central circular tomb, and the corpse was lying peacefully in the coffin with its hands folded, and some of the radiations emitted from this circular tomb were not the usual poplar stumps.

What Wang Xingguo said about Lu Wen was a text on the lower edge of the coffin, and Xia Ruobing carefully distinguished it, a little disappointed.

"The tomb of the sun god, the tomb is connected." Xia Ruobing translated this passage into the Lu language.

"Okay, let's see what's in there." Wang Xingguo said that he climbed onto the stone platform.

"Hey!" Xia Ruobing was just about to stop it, Wang Xingguo had already climbed up, and the cinnabar on the stone platform had destroyed a large piece of it for him.

"Xia Ruobing, didn't the old man say that the coffin was conclusive? How is this coffin open? Wang Xingguo stood on the stone platform, and he could look down at the sarcophagus at this time, and he asked strangely.

Xia Ruobing followed Wang Xingguo's traces and climbed onto the stone platform, looking at the open sarcophagus and the things inside, and didn't think of a reason for a while.

A skeleton lay quietly in the sarcophagus, the clothes on his body had been invaded by the years without a trace, the remains were slightly scattered, but it can still be imagined that when he was buried, he was dressed in a full costume, his hands folded on his chest, a metal handle was crooked on the bones, and there were other items on the side of the sarcophagus.

Wang Xingguo leaned down and reached for the metal-handled object.

"Don't touch ......"

"How do you know if there are any other clues if you don't take it out and take a look?" Wang Xingguo looked at Xia Ruobing.

Xia Ruobing had no choice but to acquiesce, and the two of them carefully cleaned up the items in the sarcophagus, trying not to touch the bones.

Most of these are the utensils used by the owner during his lifetime, the number is not much, as a funeral object, this seems very shabby, most of them are some daily necessities, and the rest are some utensils used in divination, these utensils undoubtedly confirm that the owner lying in the sarcophagus was a sorcerer before his death.

Now it's not the same thing when you study it carefully, Wang Xingguo picked up the metal handle, part of it has decayed, it seems to be a scepter representing the power of the wizard, and the remaining part is engraved with patterns and words, he wiped off the patina covering the outside, the pattern is some of the wizard's divination scenes, and those words are also some charms that ordinary people can't understand, but there is no clear text record here This is the ruins of Loulan.

Lu Wen has been used in many places in the ancient Western Regions, although Loulan is the most famous, but as a scientific researcher, Xia Ruobing must find empirical evidence, even if she believes that this is the mausoleum of Loulan wizards, there is not enough evidence to prove it, and she can't make judgments.

"Xia Ruobing, time!" Wang Xingguo felt that they had dragged on here long enough, and they still had to find a way.

Wang Xingguo reminded Xia Ruobing that she could only end regretfully, at least she had gained something here.

Looking around, this circular burial chamber has a total of 8 passages that radiate out at equal distances, which passage is the way to get out?

"Just now you said, the tomb of the sun god, the tomb is connected?" Wang Xingguo remembered something.

"Huh?" Xia Ruobing also seemed to realize something.

"There must be a way out!" Wang Xingguo took out the circuit diagram he had just drawn......