Chapter Ninety-Five: The Dragon Maiden (1)
The Shura field of the dragon "Leviathan".
Suddenly, another girl's voice sounded, speaking the language of the Loulan people two thousand years ago, and the black smoke of the mirage quickly disappeared.
In the darkness, she stepped over the bloodied corpse and went straight to the mirage, as if begging for the dragon's forgiveness.
"Inka!"
Li Longsheng couldn't restrain himself, he was sure that the girl was not a phantom, but a real flesh and blood body. Although he was a few feet away, he could feel Inka's body temperature and even breathing.
She is not a Loulan girl from 2,000 years ago, but a Robu Yingka from the twentieth century. Her biological father is here, the great Swedish explorer who has been abandoned since the beginning.
Behind Inka was a fair-skinned young man, carrying a strange weapon on his shoulder, like a stick and a shovel.
He is Xiao Mu, the leader of the tomb robbers, and has become the commander of the light pole, and the descendants of the Luoyang Tomb Robbery Village have been wiped out by the tomb beasts of Mirage Town.
A moment ago, as Xiao Mu wandered the dark and boundless graveyard, he bumped into Inka with a torch head-on.
Xiao Mu thought that the Loulan girl in the phantom was here again, and reached out to touch the screen, or pass through the phantom's body, but he touched the real girl's breasts, and then exchanged for a loud slap from Yingka.
Although he was armed with a tomb robbery and self-defense weapon, Luoyang Shovel, he was completely stunned by her, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and begging for mercy.
He thought he had met the resurrected Queen of Loulan.
The girl said in Chinese with a northwestern accent: "Take me away, I'm going to find someone, I see their fleeing camels." ”
With that, Inka pulled out a knife and placed it around the tomb robber's neck.
Xiaomu is most afraid of death. He returned the same way with Ingka and came to the Shura field where the tomb beasts of Mirage Town were raging.
In fact, it was also the first time that Yingka came to the legendary ghost town of Lop Nur.
Since I was a child, my mother said that in the depths of the Lop Nur desert, once the black smoke rolls up, don't get close, that is the practice of the dragon, swallowing the heavens and the earth. If a caravan of camels passes by and strays into that ghost town, it will never come out.
This morning, Yingka sang the ancient song of Loulan, and after a short hearty time, she rowed a canoe in the Luobu Naoer Lake, watching her reflection shatter in the ripples of the water, biting her hair, and thinking of Li Longsheng's eyes.
Enigmatic eyes.
What kind of person is he? So ruthless and unrighteous, just past a dawn, he reneged on his oath. But should he die? Before he died, Inka wanted to see him again and ask him why.
And her biological father, the man who was respected all over the world, ran away before his daughter was born, and there were also countless questions for him to answer.
Then, let him die again.
Let them die.
This is how Inka persuaded herself, riding a camel alone and heading deep into the desert of Lop Nur to find her father and lover.
She first came to the ancient city of Loulan, climbed the pagoda, and found the black smoke. When she approached on a camel, it was a brand new city, a mirage-like ghost town.
Inka got out of his camel, lit a torch, and boldly broke into the gate hole......
Loulan Ancient Tomb.
She looked at Sven Hedin, and also at Li Longsheng, one was the man who gave her life, and the other was the man who gave her life—a certain seed had sprouted in her belly, and last night under the winter starlight, at the moment by the lake in Luobnaoer, she felt this feeling spontaneously in her heart.
She didn't want them to die like that.
For the first time, Inka faced the dragon that had been said in Lop Nur for 2,000 years, and it was a big guy like a yellow eel, but with dragon horns on his head.
But the mirage did not dare to move her in the slightest, but trembled, twisted, and undulated in front of her...... even performed a three-and-a-half-week somersault in the air, like a naughty boy.
This Leviathan-like beast of the grave that could swallow all things in heaven and earth actually crawled at Inka's feet, licking her boots with her lips, like a slave who threw herself to the ground.
Seeing this scene, Qin Beiyang glanced at the nine colors again, and suddenly understood that the tomb beast of Mirage Town regarded Yingka as its master.
In the era of Banchao in the Eastern Han Dynasty, on the bank of Daze in Lop Nur, there was a Loulan girl who looked very similar to Yingka. She is the true master of the mirage, and even after two thousand years, the tomb beast will not forget the face of its master.
Just like the nine colors in the tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Bailuyuan, when it saw Qin Beiyang for the first time, whether it was the baby born on the coffin of the little prince in the year of Gengzi, or the sea Dharma Mountain in the Shanghai Public Concession three years ago, because of his own face, or a certain breath in the underground palace contaminated on his body, he became the owner of the tomb beast of the young Qilin Town.
As a result, between the Tomb Beast of Mirage Town and Yingka, another hazy light and shadow appeared, like transparent movie screens on both sides.
Everyone hid behind the nine-colored antlers, and saw the vast Lop Nur Daze again......
The lake is next to a big desert, and there is a beautiful little girl from Loulan, who stepped into the yellow sand with bare feet.
She is also called Inka.
In the ancient Loulan language, Inga means - daughter of the dragon.
Let's call her Loulan Yingka.
The little girl found a dozen huge eggs, almost all of which had been destroyed by the beast, and only the last intact egg remained. She carried her home like a baby, and held her in her arms every day, like a hen hatching eggs.
Finally, the eggshell shatters and a strange little thing crawls out.
It has the head of a yellow eel, the body of a snake, four claws, and a pair of small horns. With its curious eyes, it looks at strange worlds. And the first thing it saw was the little girl Loulan.
All small animals will regard the life they see at first sight as their mother.
It treats her like a mother.
It crawled into her arms, tangled the girl's body, and played mischievously. It grows very fast, takes the shape of a large snake, eats small fish and shrimp, and then begins to eat rats and frogs, until it becomes a dragon.
Loulan Yingka gradually grew up, and from a little girl to the most charming girl in the desert and Daze. The little dragon gradually turned into a big dragon, until it became the divine dragon worshiped by Loulan.
Shenlong often roams the great lake with Inka, and she stuffs the dragon's tentacles in her nostrils, allowing her to breathe freely even under the water. Occasionally, during the storm, the dragon spun and flew out of the water, and she screamed and carnivaled and grabbed the two dragon horns, and even flew to the clouds with lightning and thunder, and soared through the clouds with her little dragon, like a fairy companion......
Shenlong became Yingka's mount, traveling along the Lop Nur Daze and the Tarim River, and traveled through the 36 countries of the Western Regions. They flew up to the Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, went to the Yaochi of the Queen Mother of the West to take a bath, and stole the peaches of the Queen Mother.
In the past ten years, there has been no flood in Lop Nur Daze, and the dragon has not harmed human beings, and the southern Silk Road is unblocked. Every time a boy or a girl is sacrificed, the dragon sends the children home - the above is the credit of Loulan Yingka's education, she hopes that her little dragon will become the protector of Loulan Kingdom, and no longer the god of destruction.
When Yingka was eighteen years old, Ban Chao, an envoy of the Han Dynasty, passed by Loulan and met by chance.
Ban Chao, the great hero who threw his pen from Rong, the protector of peace in the Western Regions, and the agent of the Han Emperor, became famous throughout the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.
The beautiful maiden adores the hero and willingly gives everything for him. And her looks, her temperament, and her eyes also conquered the big hero. She once naively thought that this great man was a gift from God. She and him, as well as her little dragon, can live on the banks of Lop Nur for the rest of their lives.
Ban Chao is a foreign lander, a talented hero, his life is destined to wander, and it is impossible to stay in a gentle township.
He left, walking towards the heroic road of thousands of miles to find the marquis, leaving behind the sad Loulan Yingka.
also left the child in Loulan Yingka's womb, just like the reincarnation of eighteen years ago.
Yingka - the daughter of the dragon, as can be seen from her name, she is the illegitimate daughter of the Shanshan King of Loulan, the princess of Loulan who was left on the bank of Lop Nur. She has never met her biological father and grew up alone in the wilderness of Lop Nur Daze, the only relative who accompanies her is Shenlong.
Ten months later, she gave birth to a healthy boy.
This child is a descendant of the heroes of the Han Dynasty and the princess of Loulan, and combining the two great peoples, he will be the guardian of the Silk Road.
This matter is rumored throughout Loulan, and in the future, the position of King Shanshan will be inherited by the children of Ban Chao and Yingka.
When the queen heard about this, she was anxious - Loulan did not have a queen, and her grandson could also inherit the throne. When this child grows up, he will undoubtedly be supported by the emperor of the Han Dynasty and the protector of the Western Regions.
Prepared for a rainy day, the queen quietly sent assassins to drown the boy in a well near the lake.
Loulan Yingka completely collapsed, she hugged her dead child, and committed suicide by poisoning in grief.
Before she died, she sang a song - this is the ancient song of Loulan that has been passed down for 2,000 years, and all the camels are lost in her song, and even the birds fall from the sky.
At the end of the song, she recited the name of Loulan's god in charge of life and death, and cast an eternal curse - the kingdom of Loulan will disappear from the world and become a dead city in the wasteland.
Leviathan, which represents the "jealousy" of the seven deadly sins. Loulan Yingka's death was indeed due to the jealousy of the queen, the jealousy of Yingka's mother, the jealousy of Yingka's son, and the jealousy of Yingka herself.
After Loulan Yingka's suicide, Lop Nur continued to rain heavily for a month, which was an unheard of spectacle in the arid desert of the Western Regions.
Shenlong was furious. It stirred up waves in Daze, spit out black smoke, created endless terrifying illusions, turned the people of Loulan into light and shadow, swallowed the fields and cities into its belly, blocked the Silk Road trade routes, and even let the flood flood spread across the desert for thousands of miles to Dunhuang in the four counties of Hexi.
King Shanshan knelt down and begged Shenlong for forgiveness, posthumously crowned Yingka as the queen of Loulan, and built a magnificent royal tomb for her under Lop Nur Daze. The king even built a tomb beast for Yingka according to the customs of the Han people, according to the specifications of the princes and kings. The craftsman hired by King Shanshan was one of the Qin clans of the tombsmith clan who accompanied Ban Chao on his expedition to the Western Regions.
On the day of the construction of the Tomb Beast, the dragon suddenly flew out of Lop Nur Daze, exposed to the sun, and volunteered to guard Yingka's body forever. Qin's craftsmen used the dragon as a raw material, plus artificial bronze, stone, wood and other materials, including the spirit stone of the tomb beast produced in Qilian Mountain, to make a mirage tomb beast.
It has all the characteristics of a Tomb Beast, but also the infinite power of the Mirage, including the ability to create a mirage.
Yingka was buried as the queen of Loulan and buried in the underground palace deep at the bottom of the lake, and at the same time imprisoned the tomb beast of Mirage Town.
Her curse was still in effect, and a few years later, the flow of water in Lop Nur was cut off. People migrated to other oases, and after three or four hundred years, the entire lake dried up and became dusty salt marshes. The ancient city of Loulan, like the curse of Ingka, became a dead city in the wasteland......