Desert Beacon Smoke Chapter 107, Secrets of the Ancient Kingdom
"What does the oil taste like here?" Xue Pu asked.
The little fox said, "It's sour..."
After listening to the little fox's answer, Xue Pu frowned, in short, let everyone run.
Oil cannot be eaten, but the amount of sulfur contained in the oil can determine how it tastes.
The more sulphur it contains, the more sour it tastes, and on the contrary, it will be slightly sweeter.
Once sulfur-rich oil is burned, it will release sulfide into the air and poison people, so oil must be processed before it can be used.
And the oil that flowed out of the rock wall was like a black spring, gradually soaking the bones on the ground.
Phosphorus fire will be emitted in human bones, and oil flows into the bone mountain, so a fire is inevitable, but if the sulfur in the oil burns into the air, it will be smoked to death sooner or later, and the only way now is to leave quickly.
The scientific expedition team escaped death several times, and their movements were very fast.
Fasten up their safety ropes, do their job of climbing, and start climbing towards the stone bridge above, where the only way out is there.
The cave began to shake, and many weathered boulders began to fall.
Soon the Mars came from nowhere, and the fire began to burn in the pile of human bones.
The thick black smoke choked people, and the little fox was choked and coughed up blood, she quietly covered up her condition and was not discovered, and quickly used light skills to start climbing.
The expedition team stepped up the pace, climbed up the wall, and finally climbed the stone bridge overhead before being engulfed in flames.
But thick black smoke billowed up, and if you delayed, you would still be smoked to death.
One end of the stone bridge is locked by a dragonstone that leads to the temple.
At the other end of the stone bridge, leading to the space behind the temple, everyone had no way to retreat but to advance.
Through the stone bridge, we came to a gate, and the stone gate was closed and the pattern of the sacred fire was painted on it, accompanied by the huge fire at the bottom of the valley, and these sacred fire patterns seemed to come to life, as if they were writhing and jumping.
McTruw, who had the greatest strength, bowed down and pushed the door hard, this stone door weighed a thousand pounds, and McTrew's sweaty strength finally pushed open the stone door.
This is not something that ordinary flesh and blood can do, and this McTrull's push of the stone door is really impressive.
However, now is not the time to sigh...
The crowd rushed into the stone gate and hurriedly sealed it.
Xue Pu and Zhou Yunfeng, Chen Haopeng and Wang Zebin took sapper shovels, dug the soil and wet the soil with water, and sealed the crack of the door to prevent the highly toxic sulfide smoke from entering the gate.
After some hard work, it was not until the black smoke could no longer seep into the crack of the door that everyone could take a breath.
Inside the stone gate is a larger space.
The cave was empty, and suddenly the lights around it were bright, and a huge altar appeared in the eyes of everyone.
The altar is surrounded by long steps and lampposts carved with flame ornaments.
There was nothing else to be offered to the altar, but a push of the burn, emitting bursts of ashes from the embers.
Looking at the pile of ashes, everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, was this place also burned by flames? Why is it that even if there is a permanent lamp shining in the room, it is still dead and lonely?
Suddenly, Chen Haopeng was stunned: "Old Xue, what do you think is that?" Thaksin pointed his finger and saw a peach wood inserted in the center of the altar, and the iron locks on the peach wood were all around, and the yellow charms of the town house were all over the town, which was the legendary three clear and four royal locks.
Xue Pu frowned and motioned to everyone not to go over first, the "Three Clears and Four Imperial Locks" is the magic circle of the Chang'an Museum to deter demons and evils, and the people who practice it use talismans and the five elements to cooperate with the thunder method to apply seals.
The "Three Qing and Four Imperial Locks" in Shaanxi Boli were laid down by the masters of the country, and many thousand-year-old cultural relics were intimidated by their power.
Although the layout is very different from the former, the power is not below the former.
Suffice it to say that something strange seems to be suppressed here.
Sakura Momoko knew that there was something not simple on the altar, and she lost several lives along the way, so she had to listen to Xue Pu's words and stay away from the altar.
Armed with a flashlight, he began to observe the murals, trying to find some clues about the cause and effect of the Zoroastrian temple.
Sure enough, she made some discoveries.
And Lu Jiayi once again discovered the ins and outs of the city on the stone tablet next to the mural.
The Molten City, translated in the Tocharian language, should be called Sunset City.
It is a city-state under the Qiuci Kingdom, which is located at the key point of the Silk Road, the main city believes in Buddhism, and Sunset City also believes in Buddhism.
However, the people's life is difficult, they admire the rich and beautiful life of the people of the Central Plains, but although the Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions Protector here, they are benevolent and helpful, and give them cattle and sheep.
However, because their people believed in Buddhism and did not have the motivation to work hard, their living conditions never improved.
However, the Dharma they had been relying on did not give them a way to relieve their suffering, and they wasted money on a large scale to build caves for the Buddha, which led to a famine in the "Sunset City", cannibalism, and great civil strife in the country.
In the end, the lord of the city was killed, and the royal princesses of the city were also eaten by these people.
Seeing that Buddhism was not enough to survive the world, the national teacher in the city told the people that if he was dead, the modern Buddha could no longer bless the people, so he led the people to take refuge in the "Maitreya", which represents light and hope for the future Buddha.
And the new religion, they call it "heaven".
Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, Zoroastrians did not have a literal Chinese name, and their gods were called "heavens".
After arriving in the Sui and Tang dynasties, China coined a word for this sect, "Zoroastrian" to read "Xian", that is, "heaven" plus a cloth patch.
Later generations can easily confuse "袄" and "祆", and the pronunciation here needs to be noted.
Reading this, everyone began to understand that the reason why the city believed in "Zoroastrianism" turned out to be because of such a history.
Obviously, the national teacher in the article was a second or fifth boy in Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, but the people respected the national teacher like a god.
He even set up a shrine to worship him, and later the national teacher even became the de facto ruler of Sunset City.
According to the Tocharian texts, the national teacher said that he was blessed by Maitreya and gained the ability to live forever, and that the national teacher assisted five generations of kings, and he was still alive, and his beard was still black, and the wrinkles on his face did not grow after the age of fifty.
By the fifth generation of the city lord, after the civil strife in the country, this national teacher was actually more than twenty years younger.
The situation is incredible.
However, the last sentence of Tocharian made everyone unbelievable.
This passage seems to be a religious scripture:
The fire will be extinguished, the soul will return to the fire, all souls will live forever in the fire, the fire will be extinguished, and the darkness will be eternal forever.
However, the fanaticism for treasures has made Sakura Momoko even more impatient, and she has traveled thousands of miles to China for the treasure in front of her.
After listening to Lu Jiayi's translation and the immortal national teacher, she was even more sure that there must be an elixir of immortality.
And the little fox was also secretly happy in his heart, clenching his fists and holding back the excitement of the treasure.
She said, "Did Xue Pu see it? See? Immortality has really been found this time! ”