After about half a day's drive, six domineering desert off-road vehicles finally drove to the ruins of the legendary ancient city of Loulan, which is full of psychedelic colors.

Everyone stepped out of the car one after another, looking at everything in front of them with solemn expressions, which contained the past history and the passing of time.

The plan of the ancient city is nearly square, and it has undergone thousands of years of wind and sand erosion, and almost all of it is hidden by quicksand.

The city walls are rammed with clay and red wicker, and there are ancient canals that run diagonally through the city from northwest to southeast.

An octagonal domed adobe pagoda sits quietly in the northeast corner of the ancient city, which is the tallest building in the ancient city of Loulan - Yadan Pagoda.

In the southwestern part of the canal ruins, there are three large wooden adobe houses. At that time, archaeologists had excavated a large number of cultural relics under these walls, which were estimated to be the remains of the government office of Loulan at that time.

Further west from the three rooms are the remains of several private houses, the size of which is still clearly visible. The ground was littered with poplar planks, red willow branches, and shards of black and red pottery.

More than 1,000 years have passed, and they are still intact, which seems to tell us the prosperity and glory of the ancient city of Loulan.

"This is the legendary ancient city of Loulan, it's so mysterious and shocking." Looking at the scenery in front of them, everyone couldn't help but sigh.

"Why did Loulan, which was once so prosperous, suddenly disappear?" Chen Xi asked.

In 400 A.D., the high monk Fa Xian traveled west to learn scriptures, passing through this place, he said in the "Buddha's Country Record" that this place has been "no birds on the top, no beasts on the bottom, all over the eyes, only the dead dry bones as the mark ear." As a result, after nearly 500 years of glory, Loulan, an important town on the Silk Road, gradually lost its population and disappeared silently from the stage of history. Professor Zhang Wenming on the side looked at everyone and then said indifferently.

"As for the reason for the demise of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, it is still an unsolved mystery." Professor Zhang continued, "According to the Notes on the Book of Water, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people of Loulan blindly cut down and cut down indiscriminately, resulting in soil erosion, so that the Zhubin River in the middle reaches of the Tarim River was diverted, resulting in a serious water shortage in Loulan. Despite the best efforts and attempts made by the people of Loulan to dredge the river, the ancient city of Loulan was eventually abandoned due to water failure. In addition, one thing is certain, it was the plague that gave the Loulan people the final blow. “

After saying this, Professor Zhang Wenming sighed, and everyone sighed.

Whatever the reason, the once glorious ancient city of Loulan has indeed disappeared from history forever and silently.

Although the fugitive Loulan people have also dreamed of resurrecting Loulan from generation to generation. However, dreams can only be dreams.

At the end of the dream, Loulan is still the territory of wind and sand, the country of death

"Professor Zhang, that is the Yadan Pagoda mentioned in the wall." Lin Feng pointed to the adobe pagoda in the northeast corner of the ancient city and said. "Hmm~, I don't like people to call me professor, the word professor has been played by you young people, call me Teacher Zhang or Director Zhang." Zhang Wenming paused for a moment and looked at everyone and said. "Haha, Director Zhang, that's a good name. Our company is not short of an instructor. A sturdy, dark-skinned officer said that he was the accompanying army leader, Company Commander Wang Wei.

"Coach Zhang is good, and Company Commander Wang is good." Everyone laughed and agreed.

In the northeast corner of the ancient city of Loulan, an octahedral pagoda stands alone on the sand.

The stupa is made of adobe and red willow branches, and the residual height is 10.4 meters. At the bottom, there is a base made of adobe masonry, and the top is a square base, all of which are made of rammed earth, and are divided into three layers. On the south side, there are stairs built with adobe masonry for people to climb.

There are some logs and square logs scattered on the base of the tower, which seem to be the relics of the original building. The rammed earth at the base of the tower is mixed with pottery shards, and some places are mixed with clods of soil.

From the point of view of the shape of the stupa, the Loulan octahedron stupa adopts the typical Gandhara style (a stupa style that originated in ancient India).

"This pagoda has been destroyed by the wind and sand, and it is very different from what I imagined." Lu Qinglian said with emotion after seeing the pagoda.

"The stupa is also desolate all around, how can we find the location of the square near the stupa nearly 2,000 years ago?" Chen Xi said with a puzzled expression.

"I have research materials on the artifacts of the stupa found by other archaeologists, but they have nothing to do with the square mentioned in the wall inscription." Director Zhang condensed and said, "Lin Feng, you and I will climb the tower to take a closer look and look for clues." Company Commander Wang, Hao Chen, you organize the manpower to conduct a carpet search within a kilometer around the pagoda first. “

"Okay, the sun is about to go down, and we're going to try to finish some of the exploration work today." Company Commander Wang said approvingly.

Subsequently, Yuan Haochen and others first set up a tent camp with the soldiers, and then divided the corresponding exploration area according to the area.

The sunset over the desert is also a sight to behold.

But before the busy crowd had time to appreciate it, the sun that had been running in the vast sand sea for a day had slowly sunk into the sky.

As the desert gradually became quiet, a bright moon quietly poked its head out of the horizon, sprinkling a cold moonlight.

Unfortunately, so far, nothing of value has been discovered.

Everyone finally stopped their search work, ended the day's hard work, relaxed, and slowly integrated into this mysterious desert

With the hazy moonlight and the cool night breeze, Yuan Haochen seemed to look up at the pagoda not far away, and sighed softly.

The remnants of this Loulan pagoda, under the starry sky at night, actually seem more and more lonely, the night wind blows through the ancient pagoda, making a whining sound, as if telling the various encounters of the past thousand years.

Yuan Haochen came to the bottom of the tower, looked at it silently, stretched out his hand to caress the tower, and the scorching breath of the day had long since dissipated.

A cold feeling passed through the palm of the hand and went straight to the depths of the mind, making the mind immediately become clear