Chapter 41: The Ruins of the Ancient City (Part II)

The stone buried in the ground was much larger than Zhao Yang imagined, and the exquisite patterns and lines carved on it gradually revealed their rudiments as the bluestone was dug out of the soil.

Although the stone has not yet been fully excavated, the pattern outlined by the exquisite lines on it looks like a beast, like a totem of a giant dragon soaring through the clouds.

No...... It feels a little more like a snake......

In addition, judging from the style and use of lines of clouds, they are very in line with the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.

In ancient times, there were basically a lot of totem worship, and a dynasty or even a feudal king had its own totem, so it was also established to infer dynasties and emperors simply from the style of the totem.

"What are you doing in a daze, come here to help!"

Zhao Yang shouted at several of Jin Wuxian's subordinates.

Several of Jin Wuming's subordinates reacted at this time, and immediately trotted over to help, digging together with the small shovel they had with them.

Although Jin Wuming is a layman for tomb robbers, the equipment he let his subordinates bring is very complete, in addition to guns, one person and one shovel, black folds, ropes, and hooks are all basic standard equipment.

Because the stone was buried only a few centimeters deep in the ground, coupled with the erosion of the torrential rain, seven or eight people dug quickly for more than ten minutes, and a large stone was completely exposed in front of Zhao Yang's eyes.

If you have to be strict, this should be a bluestone wall only ten centimeters thick, the stone wall is indeed carved with a snake, the posture is arrogant, but unfortunately this piece of bluestone wall is only a broken corner, and the snake body pattern engraved on it is only a small part, and there is no head and tail.

Zhao Yang looked carefully at the snake totem on the bluestone wall in front of him, although it was only a small part of the broken, but there was a sense of familiarity and déjà vu.

But in the knowledge that Zhao Yang learned before his death, there is no question of which period of the Tang Dynasty and the princes had such a snake totem......

In the next moment, Zhao Yang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, took out the box of the Unbounded Demon Pupil that he had obtained in the tomb of the Golden Armor General from his backpack, and carefully compared the figure of a nine-headed demon snake carved on the box with the bluestone wall.

Not to mention, there are really some similarities.

"Hey......" Zhao Yang said in amazement, frowning deeply.

"Could it really be the same totem, coincidentally together, the tomb of the golden armor general before and the tomb of the emperor you are looking for belong to the same era? What is the relationship between the two? ”

Zhao Yang muttered in his heart, but this was just Zhao Yang's guess.

After all, they are all snakes, and it is normal that the details of some seal carvings are the same, and Zhao Yang can only be used as a reference, and cannot be conclusive, otherwise it is easy to be deviated.

"Young Master...... Come and see, there seems to be more here! ”

At this time, Chen Fuwang seemed to have made a new discovery, and immediately shouted at Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang immediately got up and looked at the place where Chen Fuwang was fingering.

There are also obvious bluestones exposed in the soil against the mountain.

Zhao Yang took people over to dig up the soil of the mountain, which was a broken square stone pillar, which was buried under the soil horizontally, and there were more bluestones buried by the soil in deeper places, basically with obvious traces of artificial excavation and polishing.

After seeing this, Zhao Yang already had a rough guess in his heart, and then asked six or seven of his subordinates to look around.

The result of the search was exactly the same as Zhao Yang's guess in his heart, at the foot of this mountain, digging everywhere in the ground, all of them were collapsed bluestone ruins, with stone pillars, eaves, and gate platforms......

It is clear that the location under his feet was once an ancient city, and this is the ruins of an ancient city built deep in the mountains!

From the topography point of view, this is the basin under the Taihang Mountain, the high mountains on both sides lie horizontally, and the basin in the middle extends about dozens of kilometers to the east, and it is no problem to build a city.

However, from the perspective of the location of the ancients to build a city, the ancients generally chose an open place to build a city, which is conducive to transportation, because the ancients knew how to trade and do business more than 2,000 years ago, and built the city here, which is like self-blockade, which is very abnormal from this point of view.

However, judging from the ruins of the ancient city washed out by the heavy rain, none of the buildings are basically intact, all of them have been seriously damaged, and even Zhao Yang also found that there are still some fragments of bones under the ruins of the ancient city, which can fully show from these evidences that this ancient city was artificially damaged, and the means were very brutal and rude, and even the people in the ancient city did not have time to escape at that time.

This reminded Zhao Yang of some tribes in ancient times, or small countries with deep religious beliefs, who were not willing to get along with the outside world at that time, so they built the kingdom in the deep mountains, isolated from the world......

In this regard, there is also a history of research, among which Taoism was the most prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, and from Taoism there were many evil sects, which used boys, girls and virgins as medicine and sacrifices in order to seek the alchemy of immortality, and the means were evil and despicable.

Even some small surrounding countries have been bewitched by this evil sect and crooked religion, and in order to refine the pill and live forever, they have wantonly sacrificed boys and girls, causing chaos to the common people, and even in the name of Taoism.

For a period of time, in order to correct the name of Taoism, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, ordered the extermination of many small countries around him that were bewitched by evil sects.

This is a canonical history, and there are many relevant documents.

"Is it possible...... This is also a small country that was exterminated by Tang Taizong in order to eliminate demons and evil in the name of righteousness? ”

Zhao Yang couldn't help muttering in his heart, if this was really the 'Futuo Kingdom' recorded in the nameless ancient book, it was really very possible.

Because the word 'Futuo' itself carries a strong shadow of Taoist culture, coupled with the curse of the last sentence on the last page of the nameless ancient book, just sounding like it makes people feel very evil!

If that's the case, then the problem is serious.

A country with deep evil thoughts, then his emperor's tomb can think of how evil it is with his toes.

There has always been a well-known law of grave robbery, and the character and ability of the tomb owner can determine the danger of the tomb.

For example, Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, so he made a seventy-two suspicious grave to prevent the excavation of tomb robbers, and he is still a mystery to this day.

For example, Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty loved the people and was thrifty, so his tomb was built directly, which greatly saved manpower and material resources, and basically there were no precious gold and silver burial goods.

There is also the tomb of Li Chunfeng in the Longling Grotto, because Li Chunfeng is a very capable monk, so his tomb is also combined with the I Ching gossip, which is extremely dangerous.

Therefore, to sum up, if this is really an imperial tomb that has been deeply corroded by evil sects, then the degree of danger is ...... I can't imagine it!