The cave was pitch black, and the air was dry and dusty.

The lamppost of the flashlight illuminates the surrounding walls, and there are many murals depicted on the surrounding walls.

"Where is this? Where have we been? This is the first reaction of the members of the scientific expedition team after waking up.

Zhou Yunfeng lit a cigarette, smoked it, and escaped death, no matter where he was, he was not as chic as a cigarette.

Everyone's brains were dazed, and Xue Pu vaguely remembered that there was an explosion in the temple.

They were engulfed by the force of the impact through the vent, and after a passage they fell down a downhill slope.

The place where it is now may not be the top of the temple, but the underground palace below the temple.

Zhou Yunfeng was lying on the ground smoking a cigarette, feeling the comfort after escaping death. I only felt that the bottom of my tired body was loose, like a pillow on a pile of branches.

"I'll you!" He was startled, and jumped half a foot high, only to see that his body was full of bones.

These bones are scattered and scattered, large or small, and accumulate like mountains.

They fell on the pile of white bones, and they didn't know how deep it was, and since the exploration of the Huainan Tomb, Zhou Yunfeng was no longer afraid of these dead corpses.

It's just that the volume of the human bone pile here is much larger than that of the Huainan Tomb.

Looking at the pitch-black environment around him and the bones all over the ground, Xue Pu got up and said, "Yes, the underground palace where the Zoroastrian sect worships corpses!" He frowned, thinking in his heart at the blurred mural on the wall, and his heart was apprehensive, all of this must be somewhat familiar.

Zhou Yunfeng asked: "Da Lao Tie, what do you mean!" ”

"Zoroastrianism practiced sky burial, but it did not fail to collect the bones. Instead, they collected the bones left over from the beast's eating and placed them in their dungeon to be worshipped. Buddhism also practiced cremation, but in ancient times, the conditions for burning were limited, and after burning, it was a pile of broken bones. They will also place their bones in the dungeon for worship. This must be the cemetery of this small city in the Western Regions. Xue Pu said.

Sakura Momoko took over and said, "Xue Sang is right, most of the dead people in this city-state have been buried here for hundreds of years. So many people are buried here en masse, which is unprecedented in the history of mankind. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Pu and the others' faces sank, and Lu Jia couldn't bear it, and couldn't help but scold: "Fart!" ”

Sakura Momoko was stunned, and the master of the Sakura family also showed anger: "Aisha, what do you mean!" She categorically didn't expect that her unintentional words would be scolded like this.

Lu Jiayi: "Yangzhou, Jiangyin, Nanjing, Lushun!" Have you all forgotten!? ”

Sakura Momoko's face turned grim and retorted: "Yangzhou on the 10th, Jiangyin on the 81st, what does that Manchu Qing have to do with the crime committed by our Wa Kingdom!" ”

Lu Jiayi said angrily: "That means, Nanjing, Lushun, your dog's day recognition?" ”

Sakura peach ate it and took a bite at Lu Jia's place, and was silent for a long time.

Speaking of this, everyone has a black face, and they all know that Jia Yi is holding back the fire in his heart.

And everyone doesn't like the Japanese either.

Climb up the mountain of broken bones and look around for clues where you can continue.

Without Professor Jia, the only people present who can be called experts are Sakura Momoko and Lu Jiayi.

It was pitch black, and Xue Pu held a flashlight on the wall and carefully observed the mural.

As the little fox who is the master of the mechanism, she also knows that this place is both a tomb and a temple, and since this place is still to be worshipped, there must be a way for the living to enter and exit.

She fumbled around, and suddenly found a stone tablet engraved with Tocharian Rowan.

"Aisha... Look! The little fox shouted Lu Jiayi's pseudonym.

Lu Jia frowned for the first time, looked at the stone tablet, and muttered between her eyebrows: "The soul returns to the holy fire, and the light is with the sun." ”

"What do you mean? Is it a prayer? The little fox shook his head.

At this time, Xue Pushulang's voice came: "It's not a prayer, it's a sacrifice." ”

Xue Pu held a flashlight, hovered under the wall, observed the mural and said, "You see that this mural seems to be performing a ritual. The man on the altar, either the priest or the king, threw a person who was a sacrifice into the fire.

The believers knelt on the ground and worshipped, and it was clear that it was not burned at the stake. ”

Looking at the person who threw himself into the flame in the mural, he was dressed in luxury, and he must have thrown himself into the flame in the crowd as a sacrifice, offering to the flame.

Lu Jiayi was suddenly stunned: "Worship the fire with your body and devote yourself to the light?" Such a custom is indeed recorded in some Western Regions Zoroastrianism. ”

Xue Pu asked, "The words on the slate, you continue to read them to me and translate them for me." ”

Lu Jiayi's eyes widened and nodded, the translation of Tocharian is extremely complicated, because it is a dead language, many words have no clear meaning, so it is necessary to use some words in Iranian with the same root for derivation.

Fortunately, Lu Jiayi has read such books since she was a child, and she tried her best to say that she had an impression and could translate them, and she thought about it for a long time, organized the language and said: "This seems to be a ritual." ”

"Ritual?" Xue Pu and Chen Haopeng, who came over, asked.

"Well, that's good! The stele says that before the birth of the world, it was pitch black, and the beginning of the world was a flame, and after the flame, the world appeared bright, and with the light there was darkness that the light could not illuminate.

So there is good and evil, life and death. But one day, light will illuminate darkness, good will triumph over evil, and survival will dispel death.

And the souls of all the people of the world will return to the Holy Fire and become eternal life in the Holy Fire and the Light. ”

Saying this, the little fox's eyes lit up: "Eternal life!" Immortality, this is the immortality that Mr. Falkrus and they are looking for!! ”

She touched her nose and calmly analyzed: "Once this statement is true, this Zoroastrian must have mastered some method of immortality!" ”

The conversation of several people had already attracted the attention of Sakura Momoko, and Xue Pu's "great achievements" at the Poetry Conference had made the Eight Banners Group's decades-long carefully planned plan go to waste, and they had already been on their blacklist.

He knew that the two girls in the caravan were not simple.

If one of them is Lu Jiayi, then Xue Pu, who is also a descendant of the expedition back then, must also be on his hostile side.

But now is not the time to tear your face apart.

She and her subordinates could only pretend to be stupid and follow Xue Pu and others to find clues.

And Xue Pu and the others' plan is also obvious, that is, to mix in the scientific expedition team and take the opportunity to seize the secret behind the temple as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Sakura Peach.

Since the current purpose of both sides is treasure, there is no need to tear their faces immediately.

And the little fox also sensed this.

Her eyes turned and she pretended to say something: "The soul will return to the holy fire and become eternal life in the holy fire and light." That's right, Grandpa Tai must have found a way to immortalize the Zoroastrians! ”

This was deliberately said to Sakura Momoko, Sakura Momoko was stunned, although she had seen Lu Jiayi once, but she couldn't recognize her face at all in a hurry.

Besides, the little fox's makeup for Lu Jiayi has long changed, and he himself is young and similar to Lu Jiayi's figure, as soon as this remark came out, Sakura Momoko mistook the little fox for Lu Jiayi.

The little fox looked calm, signaling that Lu Jiayi didn't have to worry, and used herself to attract the attention of the Sakura family, but it was better to protect Lu Jiayi's safety, and she could also analyze the clues of the incident more freely.

The words on the slate, Lu Jiayi continued to translate, due to the damage of the slate, there were many sentences missing in the middle, and she then said slowly out of context: "The fire will be extinguished, the soul is no longer in the world, when the darkness will cover the world again, but one day the beings who desire the light will re-raise a flame in the darkness." ”

Mysterious and strange religious scriptures seem to record Zoroastrian beliefs and their worldview.

Although it is slightly out of context, the mysterious and treacherous religious story is chilling.

Xue Pu was familiar with ancient texts, and even if Lu Jiayi translated them in the vernacular, he could also get a glimpse of the symbols in the words from this sentence.

Zhou Yunfeng complained: "How can I listen to this story so similar to the black soul? It's a soul again, and it's fire again. ”

Wang Zebin also nodded: "Hmm! ”

Xue Pu thoughtfully, the story background of the Black Soul series of games is that the world was born from an initial fire, the protagonist is immortal, and the inheritance of the initial fire is to maintain the existence of the world, in which the protagonist's mission is to kill the salary king who can be used as the initial fire to burn fuel, and the burning salary king makes the initial fire and the world continue.

The story recorded on the slate is also about the soul and the flame, which can't help but feel a little similar.

Black Souls is a classic computer game, but its world is huge, and the setting set by producer Miyazaki is not unfounded. In addition to the fact that this person is really yin, the worldview in the game can even be called a soul philosophy.

Since the background of the Black Souls series is based on something, then maybe there may really be some connection and similarity between Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrianism.

It's just the words on the slate, and in Xue Pu's eyes, the content doesn't look like a inheritance, but more like a story of reincarnation.

Everyone had come all the way from Molten City to this place, and not a single creature was found, including the bugs.

This dead silence is terrifying.

Xue Pu thought about it repeatedly, and the words "The fire will be extinguished" left by Faklu were still incomprehensible.

I thought of a fire in the temple again, and secretly felt that there must have been a fire here a thousand years ago, burning all the nearby residents, so the city-state was abandoned.

And the cause of the fire is related to this story.

Lu Jiayi used a flashlight to shine on the mural on the wall: "Brother Pu, look! What are they writing about? It seems that the fire burns not only the people who are sacrifices. ”

Xue Pu stared fixedly, looking up at the strange groups of villains above. The painting method of these villains is somewhat similar to the painting method of the desolate souls being burned in the tomb of King Huainan, but the tomb of King Huainan looks weird and hideous, and the appearance here is so high-sounding.

Suddenly, Chen Haopeng said: "Old Xue, look at the head! ”

Xue Pu looked up, a blood-red light shot out of his head, and a huge crypt stone bridge appeared at the top of the cave, and there were dark red flames emitted by everlasting lamps at each end of the stone bridge.

The flame was eerie, like human blood.

Everyone saw the way out, and they didn't have time to analyze the details.

They all tried to climb up.

Wang Xiaodong shouted: "Oh no! Look! I'm going to die! ”

He pointed sharply with his hand, I don't know if it was the voice of the crowd or what the reason was, boiling oil began to flow out of the rock crevices, Zhou Yunfeng was covered in black, frightened, and said goodbye to his hundreds of millions of assets.

"I'm done, I'm going to die!!" Zhou Yunfeng, who was frightened, began to talk about his aftermath with a panicked face: "Tiezi, you leave my money to our parents and our parents!" You also leave tens of millions of points for you and Pang Bo, I'm going to finish the calf. ”

Xue Pu was scared enough, but this black liquor seemed to smell different from the black liquor in the hall, Xue Pu mustered up the courage to dip his fingers in the black liquid, and was about to put it in his mouth.

Unexpectedly, the little fox took the first step, grabbed Xue Pu's arm, opened his small mouth and used his soft little tongue to hold Xue Pu's fingers dipped in black liquid.

snatched it in an instant and sucked the liquid on Xue Pu's fingers clean.

"Girl, you're crazy!" Xue Pu said urgently.

Looking at the little fox's innocent face, a pair of eyebrows frowned lightly, with essence in his mouth, and tasted it for a while.

Frightened, Xue Pu hurriedly picked her mouth, for fear that if it was poison, the silly girl would die with Professor Jia and Zhou Yunfeng, who was about to burp.

"Don't pick, it's all out of the water!" The little fox groaned.

She spit out the essence and rinsed it, and Da Lao Tie looked confused: "Eh, after so much, why haven't I died?" Thank God, the blessing is great, the life is great, and the creation is great! Professor Jia just touched that point and died? Zhou Yunfeng asked.

The little fox said: "Eh, Brother Tie, that "Nirvana Ointment" is an extremely precious rarity, worth more than gold, except for the Central Plains Dynasty, where can the small countries in the Western Regions use it everywhere. In my opinion, there must be an underground oil field in this place, so that the city-state can afford to use extremely expensive stone grease as a raw material to make "nirvana paste". ”

Xue Pu said in his heart that all this is speculation, the little fox knows that Xue Pu's physique is different from others, but there is only one way to die with "Nirvana Cream" in his mouth.

Once the two of them made a mistake in their guesses, there was a "Nirvana Cream" here, and even Xue Pu was unlucky.

She took the first step to hold the oil, which was to help Xue Pu die.

Thinking of this, Xue Pu's gratitude and love for her Yayoi....

He couldn't help but look at the little fox in a daze, unable to speak.

"Poof, stupid, you are allowed to die for your brother, and I am not allowed to die for you!" The little fox smiled and said lightly.