Chapter 187: Ancient Western Regions Script

The coffin board fell to the ground with a loud 'bang', and the room was full of dust for a while, and we covered our mouths and noses and waited for the dust to settle down, and all three of us all looked at the bottom of the coffin.

"What is this?" I was amazed at the symbols at the bottom of the coffin, and there were many symbols densely carved on the wooden board at the bottom of the coffin, so I quickly took out my phone and opened the photo, which was exactly the same in comparison.

I found the three messages in the three text messages in Liujia Village, the first is the book that someone hanged, in fact, it is the ghost hand Gu and the hundred feet of this kind of Gu thing, the second is the "three more do not look at the moon" of the prompt, I looked up at the moon and the body will have some kind of change, Lao Luo said that the face will bloom because of the moonlight, although I don't believe it, but I don't dare to take the risk to verify.

The last one was the mysterious symbol, which now appeared at the bottom of the coffin, and I looked up at Lao Luo, and saw that he was reaching out to feel the symbols, and after touching them for a while, he said to me, "These symbols seem to be a map." ”

"How do I think it's a string of garbled characters." It doesn't look like a map horizontally or vertically, and even if it has something to do with gossip, it's very difficult, the crooked symbols on it have no order at all, I asked Lao Luo how he came to the conclusion of the map, but he shook his head and said that he wasn't very sure, but he should have read the information about this way of drawing in a book.

It's been in vain for a long time, but I also believe that the appearance of this symbol in this place is not accidental, because no one will be idle enough to carve this symbol under the coffin.

Zhang Qian on the side looked at these symbols and fell into deep thought, only to see that the emotions on his back before still disappeared on his face, replaced by a kind of concentrated concentration, I watched him pacing back and forth in front of the coffin from time to time with his eyes closed and touched those symbols, and then opened his eyes and showed surprise and couldn't help asking: "What?" Can you still tell what these things are? ”

"This should be a script in the Western Regions, and if my memory is correct, it should be a very old script, Cypriot."

Zhang Qian smiled and said to us: "Serbian and Tocharian are the two oldest languages in the Western Regions, but at the beginning of the discovery of the Serbian language, people did not know what kind of language it was, and later the German linguist Louyman called this kind of language 'North Aryan', which he thought was the third Aryan language in addition to the Magical Kingdom and Iranian."

Later, a French orientalist named Birch found that this language was close to Iranian, so he called it 'East Iranian', until finally the German linguist Ludes proved that this language was the closest to the Serbian language in the eastern dialect of Middle Iranian, so he defined this language as Serbian, and this name has been widely accepted by linguistic circles. ”

"Do you know what is written on this?" I asked, Zhang Qian smiled bitterly, "Big brother, I am not omnipotent, and it is impossible to understand that the Serbian language is not specially for this research, and the Serbian literature that is now circulating is spelled with the ancient script of the magical country, the Brahma riddle, and this Brahma puzzle is also quite difficult to understand, so to solve what is written on it, you must first understand the Brahman riddle." ”

In the end, it was still not clear what these symbols meant, so Lao Luo thought for a moment and asked, "Can you be sure that this symbol is from the Western Regions, right?" ”

"Now it seems that it should be correct, this Serbian language is mainly found in the ancient ruins of Bachu, Hotan and Keriya in the western part of the Tarim Basin, as well as the Dunhuang Zangjing Cave, so it is definitely not in the Western Regions.

Regarding the Serbian language, the literature of this language is divided into three dialects, one is the Khotanese language that is popular in the Hotan River basin in the southwest of the Tarim Basin, the second is the Xingmi language that is popular in the Keriya River valley in the east of Hotan, and the last is the Shule language that is popular in the Kashgar River basin in the northwest of the Tarim Basin. ”

"What's the difference between these three dialects?" Lao Luo was very interested and asked, Zhang Qian thought for a while before saying: "Khotanese materials are relatively rich, and there are thousands of Khotanese Buddhist scriptures, literary works, king's edicts, contract documents, household registration accounts, etc.

Xingmi seems to be the language of the neighboring state of Yu, but this kingdom was annexed by Khotan at the end of the 2nd century AD, leaving no written materials, and as for the last Shule language, I have not been deeply informed, because there are so few things and documents that have been handed down, and the name alone is inferred from other documents. ”

"I see." Lao Luo paced back and forth thoughtfully, I didn't disturb his thinking, I just asked Zhang Qian on the side how he knew so much, he proudly told me that he was majoring in the history of the Western Regions, and originally wanted to be an archaeologist, if it weren't for this cursed thing, I would have gone to Tarim now.

I suddenly remembered Zhang Qian, who was pretended to be by Captain Cheng when he was on the side of Jiuzhi Mountain, and the giant stone statues I encountered at that time could also tell one, two, three, and I remember that after the stone statues on both sides fought, there was also some kind of symbol on the fragments of some stone statues, and at this time, I thought it was somewhat similar to the symbol on the coffin board in front of me, could it be the same kind?

"Xiye Country, Brother Mo Dao told me about this place, I don't know if the symbols here have anything to do with it." After Lao Luo finished speaking, Zhang Qian shook his head, "I don't think it's okay, there are many years different between the West Night Kingdom and this Serbian language, let's take care of these when I go back, and now help Xiaomeng first." ”

Lao Luo then remembered the matter of transcendence, he stepped on the coffin again and jumped onto the beam, and then buckled a tile at the position of the little girl's finger, and after he found a piece of rune paper, he jumped down, and then said to the little girl: "I will help you go to reincarnation now, and what is in the next life depends on your creation." ”

The little girl knelt on the ground gratefully and kowtowed a few times from Lao Luo, Zhang Qian saw that his eyes were moist and tears were swirling in it, I also sighed, the group of people who hurt the heavens and reason are done, I have some Mo Daoist at the moment, why did they wipe out this group of people.

Lao Luo's ritual did not last long, and soon the little girl in front of me showed a sense of relief on her face, and the whole person's figure slowly faded and finally disappeared completely.

"Pathetic and lamentable, hateful and hateful." Zhang Qian read a complicated sentence, he turned his head and said to Lao Luo: "As long as I can help these dead people to escape, I will definitely do my best to help you." ”