Volume 2 The Ancient Kingdom of the White Wolf Chapter 9 The Ancient City
Suddenly, I just took a good look at my feet, and then I noticed that there was a stone staircase on the side of the cliff that was not very noticeable, because of the fog, we did not expect to go down from this side at first, but went straight to the direction of the statue of Quetzalcoatl.
We tied the mules and horses to a sheltered place, left the fodder, and walked down the stone steps.
Only then did I see that on the mountain wall cut by a knife and an axe, countless caves were densely hewn out, and some caves had rotten wooden fences sticking out.
The mountain here is extremely hard, and the stone steps are wide in some places, narrow in some places, nine curves and loops, winding down, standing on the stone steps, you can clearly see that the cave in the dense fog is like a beehive, on a huge stone wall, it looks magnificent. And the fog under the mountain is thick, so that people don't know where the realm is under this cliff.
Descend the stone steps, through a section of the road, you will enter the mountain, here is estimated that the White Wolf Country has been in business for many generations, the stone wall is full of small holes, even if we do not turn on the flashlight, we can roughly see the space here.
The cave in the stone wall is divided into many levels, and in the middle of each level there is a stone staircase going downward. And each floor is divided into different stone rooms, and now it is already empty, but I think it was probably very lively back then, which reminds me of the camp of the Qin army that I saw in Changliu Mountain that day.
According to Khenpo Kunqu Tenzin, the time of the rise of the ancient kingdom of the white wolf was before the gradual rise of the Zhangzhung Dynasty, and the time when the power of the Zhangzhung Dynasty slowly encroached on the ancient kingdom of the white wolf and other tribes of Xikang should be in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and this ancient city of the white wolf should have been built in that era.
Walking in the ruins of this ancient country, there was silence all around, and there was no sense of chaos, just like the Qin camp, these subjects of the White Wolf Ancient Kingdom did not leave in a hurry, but walked in an orderly manner.
We searched the grottoes one by one, and slowly we reached the bottom of the grotto, and in the center of the bottom was a platform made of stones, and above it was an altar, but the superstructure had collapsed into a pile of rubble.
The White Wolf Clan belongs to one of the Diqiang tribes, and the word Diqiang refers to the ethnic minorities of the ancient northwest generation of our country, and the legend is that they are the descendants of the Yandi Shennong. Initially, these tribes were distributed on the meanders of the Yellow River and its vast plateau to the northwest, and then slowly moved to the Kham region as a nomadic herder.
And these tribes are still in the mountains to live in caves, their ancestors the Queen Mother of the West, the Yellow Emperor all live in the Kunlun stone room, the first king of Shu silkworm Cong also lives in the Minshan stone room.
In ancient times, the Qiang people worshiped the heavens, earth, sun, moon, stars, floods, thunder and lightning, mountains, rivers, forests, stones and other natural gods, and sacrificed to the gods through masks with the images of lions, dragons, tigers, bears, cows, leopards, snakes, phoenixes and other animals, prayed for peace, and drove away ghosts and evil spirits.
This is one of the remnants of the ancient "Dance of Beasts", and it also represents the idea that the Qiang clan hopes to live in harmony with the beasts of nature and the unity of nature and man.
Behind the altar is the entrance to a large cave, and when you stand in the cave, you can feel the warm wind blowing in the cave, which makes people feel the chill disappear.
We checked the equipment again at the entrance of the cave, and this time we were fairly well prepared, with all kinds of new gadgets ready.
In particular, a few Belgian aviation signal guns that I asked someone to get from the Sichuan army's brothers a while ago are estimated to be of great use this time.
On Tuesday, Mao also asked someone to get a few long-pole grenades from Guangzhou, which can also be regarded as artifacts, which were later improved many times in World War II and widely used on the battlefield.
Tuesday Mao said excitedly: "Seeing that there is no second baby, as soon as you take these turtle things, there are hundreds of good second children, and Lao Tzu must not be false." ”
This cave is a semi-excavated and semi-natural stone cave, and there are reinforced wooden piles and plank roads everywhere in the cave.
We don't know where this cave leads, and we don't see any traces left by my uncle or Lin Xia, but when we get here, maybe the only way to get here is to enter this cave.
Now it can't be ruled out that Uncle and Lin Xia haven't arrived here yet.
I kept an eye on it, wrote my name in a prominent place on the wall of the cave, and marked the arrow.
Soon after entering the cave, I saw that there had been a collapse everywhere, a place of gravel, sand, only some relatively large wooden pillars still have some paint that has not fallen off, and you can see a little shadow of ancient civilization.
On Tuesday, Mao scolded and said, "This place is too shabby, what are your uncles doing here?" ”
I said, "My uncle is definitely not here to hunt for treasures, I think there must be some kind of secret here, otherwise they would not have come so far to these bitter cold places." ”
I continued, "Since it's an ancient country, there should be an emperor or something, and we might find something useful by finding the location of the palace." ”
Tuesday Mao is a particularly pure person, as soon as he heard "the palace", his eyes began to light up again, and said: "Right, right, there must be good things in the palace!" ”
We searched for our way through the cave, and although the ancient city in the cave was dilapidated, we could still vaguely distinguish the original pattern.
I saw that in some stone caves, we can still vaguely see some murals and some things similar to words, but unfortunately we don't recognize these things.
The cave is so large that the caves are located on both sides of the cave wall, and a wide stone path spirals down the cave, and sometimes there is a stone bridge across the upper level.
Tuesday Mao said: "You said that the Miao people live in caves, after all, they still live at the entrance of the cave, this place where they don't see the light of day all year round, it's almost the same as being a prison, why do these ancient white werewolves like to live in this kind of place?" ”
I said: "In ancient times, people lived in caves and wilderness, and lived in winter camps. Xia Ju Jingchao, this is not where they often live, it should be here in winter, but it is estimated that it fought with the Zhangxiong Dynasty later, and after the defeat, the clan really moved here. ”
As he was talking, a passage suddenly appeared on the mountain wall in front of him, and the wooden door at the door had collapsed, and when he walked into the stone cave, he saw a lot of hieroglyphs carved on the stone wall.
The style of construction here is not very different from the houses outside, and when you walk out of the passage, you can see a circular square inside, and a large platform behind the square with a huge statue of a wolf's head erected on it.
It seems that this is another large sacrificial area, and people in ancient times attached great importance to sacrifices, and specific sacrifices may require specific sacrifice areas.
When I walked into the square, I saw that the floor of the square was built into different shapes, which were probably things that represented different attributes. In the middle of the square is a bronze tripod, which is carved with some hunting and horseback riding patterns.
Walking through the square and going up to the platform, I saw that there were a lot of bronze lamps and braziers behind the white wolf statue.
Suddenly, Tuesday Mao pointed to the back of the table and said, "Erwa, look there!" ”
I looked at it, and saw that there was something carved on the stone wall, and when I walked in and took a flashlight, I saw a huge astrological chart carved on the stone wall.
This astrological chart is exactly the same as what we see in the Mayan temple in the Qin camp, except that the astrological chart here is inlaid with stones of different colors into the stone wall to represent the astrological aspects, which is more three-dimensional and orderly.
I said: "It seems that this place is indeed inextricably linked with the Wanqu people, what is the origin of this Wanqu people, can they have such great magical powers?" ”
Mao Dao on Tuesday: "I guess there were really some immortals at that time, who came to incorporate these people." ”
I said: "If it is really an immortal, then these white werewolves, Qin Jun will not be able to become immortals and leave?" ”
Tuesday Mao nodded and said, "If you have achieved positive results, you naturally don't need to live in these caves." JB went to the sky to eat fragrant and drink spicy. ”
I pondered, "Then are you saying that my uncle and Lin Xia are thinking about becoming immortals?" ”
Tuesday Mao was startled and said, "Two... Second baby. In other words, can we also become immortals? ”
I smiled and said, "Lao Tzu sees that you are not a ghost or a ghost, and you have become a hammer and an immortal." ”
On Tuesday, Mao defended: "Then no other Zhu Bajie can become an immortal, why can't Lao Tzu become an immortal?" ”
Everyone laughed, and Li Long said: "Brother, if you become an immortal, will we, the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, also follow you and Brother Chen to become immortals?" ”
On Tuesday, Mao Haha smiled and said: "That's right, maybe they all go to heaven to be immortals, jump out of the Three Realms, and are not in the Five Elements." At that time, we will all be made an official by the Jade Emperor, and then we will give the second baby the whole Bima Wen to be Ha. ”
I smiled and said, "That's the best, Lao Tzu has become a Monkey King!" ”
Tuesday Mao said: "But Erwa, to be honest, so many turtles are going to be immortals, where can there be so many immortals in the sky, I heard the joke, immortals are not so easy to be, they have to cultivate for hundreds of years, thousands of years, why do so many people become immortals so easily?" ”
I said angrily: "Lao Tzu never said that these people have become immortals, but you turtle has been saying that everyone else has become immortals, okay?" What if the Wanqu envoy is a monster, maybe these people have already been eaten by the Wanqu envoy and can't tell. ”
On Tuesday, Mao shook his head and said: "It's not that Wanqu has never seen Lao Tzu, it's just such a big man, where is that kind of man-eating monster, at most it's ugly." ”
I said, "I don't think my uncle and Lin Xia are looking for something to become an immortal. And there are a lot of problems. You think, the immortals are all flying clouds and fog, these Wanqu people came to Middle-earth, they came by boat, and they also brought a lot of Mayans, the strangest thing is that these Mayans are actually in the Wuling Mountains and the Dangling Snow Mountains.
You see, the Mayan warrior who turned into a wolf spirit that day may have gone out to help the white werewolf fight. If the Wanqu people are immortals, calling for wind and rain, wouldn't they be able to clean up the soldiers of Xiangxiong Country in a few clicks? ”
Tuesday Mao said: "You have some truth in doing this, and if Wanqu is an immortal, he will not die." You see that he is dead, and he is still in the sarcophagus of the Mayan temple, and he still can't escape the Three Realms and the Five Elements. ”
I was silent for a moment, and then said to myself, "Then what kind of JB thing are these monster-like Wanqu people?" ”