Chapter 101: Murals
I opened my eyes.
"Big brother," Wang Ziyue asked in a low voice, "do you think it's okay?" β
"It's fine." I'm not telling the truth.
While I was lying on the sand, under a parasol, my gown was unfastened. The sun outside wasn't too strong, it was slightly reddish, and I thought it was about to dawn. I was drenched in sweat and the back of my clothes was wet.
"How did Iβ"
When Boss Bi saw that I was fine, he began to talk poorly: "Brother Du, are you honestly a cult?" Why do you like to play the trick of self-immolation? β
Liu Guang glanced at Boss Bi in a bury manner, and Boss Bi then stopped talking. Then Liu Guang squatted down and looked me in the eye and asked, "What happened?" Tell me everything you see. β
I stared at him with a great surprise in my heart, did he know what I had just seen? That's impossible.
It took me a long time before I said, "You...... You know...... What the! β
"Yes, I know." He spoke calmly, or pretended to be calm, I can't be sure. "Do you think you're seeing visions again?"
I nodded, but didn't speak, or I didn't know what to say.
"What happened? You tell me everything, and I can tell you why you see this. β
There was a glint of excitement under his brown eyes, I had never seen him look like this, and I never remembered any trade he had made with me, but this time the anomaly made me suspicious.
Should I tell the truth? I knew I didn't have much time to think, and if it took a long time, it would definitely arouse his suspicions, and then I would be more passive. But judging from Liu Guang's expression, this is probably very important information.
I had to make a decision.
"I saw a man who looked very similar to me, and then I followed him and noticed that he had taken off his mask." I said, "The face under the mask is blurry. β
Liu Guang stared at me coldly for a while and said, "You'd better not lie to me." β
I looked him straight in the eye until he looked away. Liu Guang turned around, took a bottle of water and handed it to me.
"You don't see an illusion, you see a prophecy."
"Whatβprophecy?" I looked at him with my mouth stammered, barely believing my ears, "How is that possible?" β
"When was the first time you had this kind of situation?"
I tried to remember that there were more visions I encountered, how could I know when? If I had to say that it was the same as it was now...... That's how it should be.
"Probably on Requiem Island."
"Have you ever seen any dark fuchsia liquid, or music, or flowers?"
I remembered that it was the coffin of the Hongding, so I told Liu Guang about the situation at that time. Finally, when I finished, he let out a long sigh of relief.
"You're in contact with the juice of Motonglan."
"Huh?" I and the others were taken aback.
Liu Guang said, "The juice of Motong Orchid is very peculiar, and its uses, value and effects are completely beyond your imagination. β
"The technology we have now only understands one or two uses of it, and there is only one thing that we can really master, which is to make people magical. Predicting the future is another one we guessed about. β
I was completely confused: "How could there be such a thing?" β
"How could it be?"
"Butβ"
"In some parts of ancient times, the status of shamans was very high. They are in charge of the most important activity of the state: the sacrifice and the most desirable thing of the rulers: immortality. And the most important means of spell casting for wizards is through various chemical methods, and Mo Tonglan is one of them. β
"You've also personally witnessed the power of Mo Tonglan, so you should believe it."
After saying that, Liu Guang took my shoulder, left here, and beckoned his men to pack up their things, leaving me and the others to look at each other blankly.
"How did I get out?"
"It's Satsuki." Boss Bi said, "We saw you burning like a madman underneath, and we could only send one person down." β
Boss Bi spoke in a relaxed and happy tone, but I felt that he was not as happy as he appeared, but I didn't know what was wrong.
Wang Ziyue said: "You are sick, very sick. β
"I've always ...... Unconsciousnessed? β
"Not exactly," Wang Ziyue said unnaturally, "isn't it normal anyway." β
"That's right," Boss Bi said, I knew he wanted to change the topic, "Brother Du, you're really lucky, you don't know that guy was directly drilled through the mycelium." β
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It was just a small episode in the journey, and it was about another two days before we finally reached our final destination. It was all sand all the way, and all over the eyes. Boss Bi said that he had wanted to wait for a vacation to travel to the desert, but now he felt that he should not tell him anything about sand in the future.
"We're here." Liu Guang said in front that several people jumped off their camels and stepped on the sand. I looked around, and I didn't find any difference from the places we saw along the way before, and said that Liu Guang has a dog nose, and I can smell it directly.
Liu Guang saw that we had disembarked from the camels, and told us to stand still and not move, and to unload the shovels from the camels by ourselves and beat them on the sand. Boss Bi snorted in his mouth and whispered to me: "You look at this professional action, at first glance, it is a typical representative of successful tomb robbers, and I don't believe that the tomb on the ground has not been dug up." β
I watched Liu Guang beat and found that it was indeed different. He listened to the sound with his ears as he tapped, his brow furrowed. Move your ears with every tap. I said in my heart, this is not the legendary tomb robbery skill: listening to the sound and distinguishing the acupoints, which I have only seen in novels, but I didn't expect to open my eyes today.
Liu Guang knocked on a place and stopped, opened his eyes and let out a low sigh, holding the shovel with both hands and suddenly exerting force, the sand on the ground was poked out, revealing a basin-wide hole.
"The hole is intact." Liu Guang said that the first one jumped in and watched around with a flashlight. Then he made a gesture to keep up with him, and disappeared into the horizontal space.
Liu Guang's men were not ambiguous, and jumped in one after another, and we followed. It's just that Zagree waved his hand again and again at the beginning and said that it was better for him to watch our bulky luggage on land, so he didn't go down.
We think it's the same, he's not a guide, and it's not useful to go down to the ground and only drag him down.
The underground space was exactly the same as the one I had fallen down from, with a hemispherical lid on top and no noticeable difference in the placement of the facilities inside, except for a man lying on his stomach on the table with an overcoat on his body.
Liu Guang made a careful gesture, walked over slowly, opened his coat, and checked the flashlight. And I walked around and saw something that didn't appear in the same place: the mural on the wall.
The space is very cool and humid, and it seems that it was built with cooling and moisturizing in mind. I took a closer look at the mural with a flashlight, and the coolness came to me when I saw it. I knew very well how advanced the technology of making murals on compacted sand was.
After hesitating for too long, the details on it are no longer recognizable, but I can only see a rough idea. I don't know much about antiques, and I can't confirm the style of the murals, so I pulled Boss Bi over and let him palm.
"Hmm-" Boss Bi touched his chin and was silent for a long time, his face was cloudy, I understood at a glance, this thing must be hovering at the poles, either the most precious or the most rubbish.
After a long time, he said, "No, we can't take it away!" β
Boss Bi's words made me cry and laugh, it seems that good goods are good goods, but they can't be taken away. "I'm not asking you to evaluate the value, I'm trying to show you what age it is."
Boss Bi said: "Then don't look for me, you also know Brother Du, I used to be in the champagne business, and then I switched to antiques, which is a mud leg." If you want to say that the estimate is okay, just appreciate it. β
I shook my head helplessly: "But this one's attainment is really big enough, I have never seen it even paint on the sand." β
When Boss Bi heard me, he sighed and blew his beard up: "Otherwise, I said that I can't take it back, this thing is priceless, because this is the only one, and there is no second one." β
I sighed a little: "If it weren't for the age, we would have been able to get a lot of information about this civilization in the Western Regions from above." β
"No!" Liu Guang spoke suddenly, he was standing next to the corpse at this time, looking at us across the table, "It's not because it's been a long time, it's because it deteriorated when we opened the sand to seal it." β
He threw over a mobile phone, and I picked it up and opened the photo album to look at it, and it was full of things about the desert. Some of the previous images were walking in the desert, and I flipped through a few of them and immediately screamed.
There were colorful, well-preserved murals and pictures of corpses, but they were freshly dead, as if they had been dead for a few days.
"These are all filmed with microrobots drilled under the sand." Liu Guang explained, "The satellite robot took pictures of each small piece of the picture, and then we used the computer to sort out and restore the content of the entire mural, although it is still a little blurry and unreal, but this is already very good." β
Boss Bi's eyes were straight, and he must be calculating how much this thing is worth. I also sighed in my heart, if I let the archaeological team do this kind of thing, after opening it, I would definitely think that the mural was like this, and I wouldn't have studied it deeply.