An image comes to mind, in which more than a dozen workers work day and night in this dark room to dig rocks, then hand them over to the outside for mixing and processing, and then cast them into feldspar. The white marble steps must also have some symbolic meaning, otherwise such a luxurious step would not have been built in this place that belongs to the construction site.

No further discoveries have been made, and it is impossible to explain why the dark chamber was finally closed from the inside, and the four holes were filled with stone strips. If the mechanism of the door is only inside, then someone must be inside to close the door, but where did the person who closed the door leave? Sheng Shiyao searched again and again, but did not find any suspicious mechanism, the inside and outside walls were searched, and even later we searched the entire stone room, but still found nothing, so we had to give up.

After leaving the stone room, I had been absent-mindedly following him, thinking about the mystery in it, and when I stopped in front of him, I hit his head on the back, covered my sore nose and asked, "Why don't you go?" ”

He turned slightly sideways, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Still leaving your mind over there?" Don't be careful when walking. Xiaoxiao, you must know that the difficulty of solving the problem lies in its superficial phenomenon confusing people's thinking, often sometimes changing angles, or temporarily putting the problem aside, maybe when you see the next question, the previous question will be solved. ”

This was a bit profound, and I asked in confusion, "What is the superficial phenomenon that confuses thinking?" This puzzle alone is enough to brain-wrenching, isn't it even more messy to have another one? ”

After fixing his eyes, he said: "For example, a ball of thread that has been messed up, you can't sort it out if you grab one end of the thread, should you go to find another thread?" With both threads in hand, the threads may be more messy or clear. ”

This is a well-played metaphor, very simple and easy to understand, he means that we have to think about problems in multiple directions, and we can't get stuck in the same place and drill the horns, but ......, "Where do we go to find another thread, that is, the next mystery?" ”

"The second mystery is there." Sheng Shiyao slowly moved away from the body that was half-blocking me, I stared ahead, my mouth opened little by little, and I was so surprised that I stammered: "That...... It's like an ancient castle. ”

In my trance, I followed Sheng Shiyao to a deserted place, and the ancient building in front of me is very similar to the ancient castle we broke into on the periphery of Jinsha Ancient Town, almost exactly the same, the difference is that the ancient castle outside Jinsha Ancient Town is roofless and dilapidated, but this ancient town is intact, and there are no ancient creatures coiled in front of the door, and the material of the fort door is very similar to that kind of white marble, white and shiny.

The appearance of the entire castle gives people a sense of nobility and magnificence.

I heard Sheng Shiyao say: "It's not like, it's that." Xiaoxiao, didn't you realize that the roads we just walked were familiar? I looked back at him in a daze, "Familiar? "My brain was knotted for a while, and I couldn't keep up with his train of thought.

"Looking back at the road map of Jinsha Ancient Town, you will find that we have just walked almost the same route as the ancient town, and even the houses built are similar, the difference is that the ancient town we went to has undergone the baptism of modern and modern, so the style and structure have been renovated, so we did not recognize it at first sight. But the castle is the same as the one in front of you, from the appearance to the style, to the geographical location, it is the same. ”

After being reminded by him, I immediately looked back on it, and the more I thought about it, the more surprised I became, no wonder I felt a sense of déjà vu when I walked on the road before. But we fell into the quicksand pit on the desert, and then fell to this place, it is impossible to return to the ancient town, and the two cities are also different, could it be said that in this Gurbantunggut desert, there are two identical cities? And then the city we are in now is buried under the sand pit because of the yellow sand, how big a storm can it bury a city?

Only then did he realize why Sheng Shiyao hurriedly came out to explore the road again without waiting for enough rest, it must have been that he found something wrong during the previous exploration, and happened to encounter me in distress, so he suspended the investigation and took me back to Zhou Tong to clean up the wound. His mind is really unparalleled, unless I happen to come here and see this castle today, I can't think of the reason even if I walk a few times back and forth in the town, I will only feel familiar, but I don't know where the familiarity begins.

Since you are in front of the castle, there is no reason not to go in and take a look. But remembering the dangerous experience when I explored the castle before, I was a little hairy, afraid that when the castle door opened, a large number of snakes would gush out. I saw Sheng Shiyao take out the cloth bag in his pocket, take out a small plastic bag from it, tear it open and pour it into a small bottle, as soon as he smelled the smell, he knew that it was realgar powder, and the liquid in the bottle smelled of alcohol.

Snakes are afraid of realgar, this is common sense. So he immediately understood that Sheng Shiyao was making simple realgar wine, and then he sprinkled the neutralized liquid on the two of them, especially on their feet. After getting ready, I went to push the gate of the ancient castle, but when I pushed it open, Sheng Shiyao immediately pulled me back two steps, and there was a click sound in my ears, one after another.

And a strange thing happened, the original black castle began to gradually become brighter, and brighter and brighter. Sheng Shiyao and I took a step forward, stood on the wall in the view of the doorway, and pushed out one lamp after another, and the lamp ignited automatically, very similar to the scene I had encountered in the large stone chamber before. But looking at the craftsmanship of the lamp from afar, it is much more clever than that in the stone chamber.

waited until the clicking sound stopped, Sheng Shiyao took the lead in and tried to follow but was stopped by him: "Wait outside first." I had no choice but to stop, more than a meter away from him, staring at him. After a while, he called me in, and when I walked into the castle, my eyes suddenly lit up, "The carved fence and jade brickwork should still be there, but Zhu Yan has changed." This poem popped up inexplicably in my head, not because I felt the feelings of the poet, but because I felt that the four characters of carved fence and jade should be used here.

If the castle we explored was wrecked by the wind and sand, this one is now complete. The golden columns, white marble floor tiles, dazzling decorations, and lifelike murals are displayed in front of our eyes. At a glance, the layout here is the same as the ancient castle outside, if it weren't for the ruined ancient castle we saw before, it would be difficult to distinguish it now.

Sheng Shiyao's attention was still attracted by the stone wall carvings on both sides, last time we needed to take a cloth to wipe off the sand and dust to see, this time it was not at all, the mural was very clear. But after only seeing a few of them, I found that although the murals here are carved with the same content, the carving is obviously more exquisite, it vividly depicts the facial expressions of people, and obviously the stone material of this wall is also better than the one outside, showing a white and clean light, I think it is also into that special stone.

Similarly, the sorcerer's face is still kept in the black canopy, maintaining an aura of mystery. When he walked to the stone door in the middle, Sheng Shiyao did not rush to push the door, but went to see the mural on the left. He looked at it for a while, frowned together, and then walked to the gate of the castle until he reached the beginning of the fresco on the left, and I had to follow him and look at it patiently.

I thought that the mural on the left must be another picture of how the sorcerer led people to pray for blessings and rain, as well as war, but I didn't think that the first part of the painting was a couple giving birth, and then the child grew into four or five years old, pointing to the sky, and his parents next to him were surprised. The latter child was about ten years old, with two buns dressed like shepherd boys, and a dozen people gathered around him, all of them adults, as if listening to what he was saying.

The mural in the back is even more strange, it is the scene of the child of different ages, and the number of people around him is increasing, but behind these crowds, the parents of the children are watching this scene with sad faces. Until one day, the parents called the wizard, and the child knelt down in front of the wizard, but did not kowtow, and looked up at the wizard with a stiff back.

Because each of these murals depicts the back of this child, I have never seen his appearance. I saw that the wizard stretched out his hand to cover the child's heavenly spirit cover, and then the child fell to the ground, and the couple next to him looked at the wizard in horror with frightened faces.

Seeing this, I thought to myself, could it be that this child was killed by that wizard? But why did the couple come to a wizard, didn't they harm their own children? When I turned my eyes to the next painting, I couldn't help but cry out.

It turned out that the child was not dead, but this was not what surprised me, but the child's outfit changed from the original men's clothes to a girl with a swaying skirt, and her face was finally drawn, but her face was covered with a layer of fine sand, and only the outline of her face was faintly visible, and judging from the wise eyes, this must be a beautiful girl.

All my ancient knowledge comes from TV dramas, this girl's outfit is very similar to after the Tang and Song dynasties, but the Tang Dynasty folk style is open, the woman's body is plump, and her intentions are also bold, and she rarely uses a veil to cover her face. In the Song Dynasty, the feudal dynasty began to be strict with women, and it was from this time that women could not show their heads and feet. In this way, the dynasty in which this girl lived should be after the Song Dynasty. Somehow, before the girl had to show off in men's clothes.

I saw her kowtowing to the wizard, very religious, without her previous arrogance, while her parents were smiling.

The subsequent murals are several scenes of the girl's life, some of them are looking at the blue sky outside the window, some are walking under the trees in the courtyard, and some are squatting and staring at the ground, all of them are wearing veils, so they can't see her expression clearly. I had a feeling that this girl was lonely, that she longed for the outside world, but was confined within the walls.

After the three paintings, the scene changed abruptly, there were no more girls in the picture, but dark clouds, wind and sand, people's panic when the storm came, the scorching sun, people kneeling on the ground and begging for rain, all of these paintings have wizards appearing.

This is supposed to depict the harsh environment at that time, and I don't really understand how the plot of the story turned into this, and it has nothing to do with the previous paintings. I couldn't see my eyebrows, so I had to keep looking.