Chapter 321: The Confusion of Not Returning
According to Zhao Xin, it is two days and one night away from the oasis of Zhiguo. This time, seeing the rare nervous expression on his face, Xiao Rensan was not tossing. Let Bai Wuqiu help set up a tent on the horse, avoiding the sun's exposure. The little guy was holding the jar of wine, drunk in a daze, and was not complaining that he was going to be dried with ginseng.
Along the way, it seems that he has changed a person. Instead of talking and laughing like before, the old guy is silent now, and all day long, he immediately bows his head and thinks about something. Bai Wuqiu called him a few times, but most of the old guy didn't hear him. In the end, his cheap son didn't bother to call him, and went to Wu Mian to discuss everything.
According to the meaning of not returning, don't rest at night, and rush directly to the land of the childish country. However, he, Wu Mian and those two monsters could stand it, and Zhao Xin and the people hired by him really couldn't bear to travel day and night on the desert like this. After getting dark for a long time, under the repeated pleas of Zhao Xin and the others, they finally agreed to rest here for one night, and after dawn the next day, they had to leave immediately.
At that moment, these people began to set up tents and make fires for cooking. The old guy sat directly in the sand, drawing something on the sand with his fingers. However, I was not very satisfied with the drawing, so I wiped it off and then painted it on the sand. After wiping it off like this, it is repeated over and over again a dozen times.
The old guy has practiced Bigu and doesn't need to eat. After dinner was cooked, Zhao Xin came over to invite him a few times, but he didn't go back or not. I just kept my head down and continued to draw pictures that no one could understand.
Among them, Xiao Rensan and Bai Wuqiu, two monsters, came to see it. When I saw the old guy, it seemed that he was drawing some kind of map-like pattern, looking at it block by square, and it didn't look like a map in the wild. Seeing the old guy's frowning appearance, he didn't dare to disturb him if he didn't want anything. After just one glance, he continued to look for a place to drink wine and eat meat.
"It seems that you still forgot to tell me something......" When Zhao Xin and the other hired people fell asleep, Wu Mian walked slowly to the side of the returnee. After glancing at the half-drawn sand map that the old guy had just drawn, he continued: "Let me tell you for you, you have been to the country before, and you should have suffered a loss there. If there's anything I haven't thought through, okay, I'm done. You can go on and on......"
Saying this to Wu Mian, he has no intention of continuing to draw if he returns or not. However, the old guy's face finally returned to his previous smile, and after smiling at Wu Mian, he said: "If it weren't for Zhao Ji, the old man, I would have forgotten the ridiculous things I did when I was young......
At the beginning, I didn't return to worship under Xu Fumen not long ago, when I was still a small alchemist. He had once entered the desert alone, and at that time he had hoped to cross the desert to find a tribe of dogs. Go and find the Outer Heaven Essence Iron that fell from the sky not long ago, and want to use this piece of fine iron to refine magic weapons.
What he didn't expect was that he encountered a big storm in the desert, and at that time, the method of no return was limited, which was not enough to eliminate this sandstorm. His own horses also died in the sandstorm, and although it was okay to rely on magic to protect himself, he still landed in a sand cave.
At that time, the old guy stepped on the air and fell, and his head hit the ground first, and he fell unconscious on the spot. By the time he woke up, the hole above his head had been covered with sand again. Fortunately, there was a magic mechanism here that covered the sand on it, so it didn't bury it alive.
When the old man got up, he found himself in a palace-like place. At that time, he relied on his magic to protect himself, thinking about the depth of this palace and walked in. Soon after he walked in, the old man found that this was a country without any written records. He had seen some crooked drawings on the walls that looked like words, and looked at some of the bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty. However, after recognizing it for a long time, I still didn't recognize a word.
Although the old guy didn't recognize what was written on it, he still saw some clues from some of the murals. In one of the main halls, there are several pictures of plain armies and some tall warriors fighting. The first few paintings are still very bright, but the last few murals on the two sides of the battle turned into a jade silk.
The soldiers in the costumes of the Central Plains also gave some food and gifts such as jade and stone chimes to these warriors. At this time, the flags on the Central Plains army also had some dragon flags and other imprints that could prove their identity, and one of the flags was engraved with a Shang character with bone inscriptions.
Looking at the meaning on the mural, the Shang Dynasty once sent a large army to the desert to conquer this small country. However, the war did not seem to be going well, and in the end the commanders of the Shang Dynasty changed their tactics. Forming an alliance with this warrior country to take what they need, although it was a little cowardly, but it was also to avoid a sword disaster.
When I saw this, I was even more puzzled. He had never seen such a major event as the war between the two countries in the literature. If it weren't for his previous experience, he himself would have thought he was listening to a legend.
After a long time in this dark palace, I have to go out after all. However, the character of not returning makes him return empty-handed, and he is not realistic, and he continues to look here for any natural treasures worth taking out.
However, to the disappointment of returning or not, there are many mundane things such as gold and jewelry, but there are few useful natural treasures. Just as he was about to give up on it, he returned to the place where he had fallen, and used a spell to blast the sand above his head. When I opened a way out, I found several stone chimes left here by the Shang Dynasty in the palace.
Stone chime is a stalagmite that was popular among princes and princes in the Shang Dynasty to record the major events of princes and princes. The words on it are all bone inscriptions that the old guy knows, and at the moment, the old guy saw another historical record on it that surprised him even more.
It says that the Shang king Pan Geng personally led a large army to crusade against the Zhi Kingdom, which was originally victorious, but because of a big storm turned the tide of the war. Later, after being entangled with the army of Zhiguo for half a year, it was difficult for the national strength to sustain such a large-scale long-range attack war. The king of Shang could only change his strategy and temporarily stop the war, first keep his strength and return to the Shang Dynasty.
Afraid that when the army retreated, the army of Zhiguo attacked from behind. The Shang king accepted the plan of his generals and made an alliance with the Zhiguo, and after returning to China to recuperate, he planned to fight again.
The words written on it are all bone inscriptions, and it seems that the king of Shang is clearly bullying Zhiguo for not being able to understand his own words, and he also gave this stone chime as a gift to the lord of Zhiguo. However, according to the calculation of time, the merchant king Pan Geng died of illness in the second year after returning to China. It seems that Zhiguo's luck is really good, he fought with the army of the king of Shang, and the first time he saw that he was about to be defeated, a big sandstorm came to save them. The second time, the cunning Shang King planned to go back to recuperate and come back, but he didn't expect that the Shang King's life would be short and he would never return.
All of a sudden, it's even more confusing to return or not, this is the ruins of the Zhiguo? Didn't you say that the kingdom of Zhiguo was built by banshees after the death of Shang? This is the stone chime given by the Shang king Pangeng, according to what is written above, this young country will at least move forward for a few hundred years. Can historians of such a major event be mistaken?
After seeing these stone chimes, I was even more confused in my heart. At that moment, he continued to look at the records on the next few stone chimes, and the latter ones were nothing more than words praising the merits of the Shang king Pangeng. Giving away the sycophancy article to himself as a national gift, this business king Pan Geng is also a little funny.
However, in the last stone chime, he finally found something he was interested in. At that time, the reason for recording the Shang king's army to conquer the Zhi Kingdom was to obtain the sacred relics of immortality in the Zhi Kingdom. It's just that this holy relic is hidden in a secret place, and even the lord of the country can't easily enter it.
Legend has it that entering this place requires a special time to be born in the country of Zhiguo, and it is so coincidental that that hour is the eight-character time when Xu Fu'en is reincarnated by Senior Brother Qu......