The nine colors were startled, the antlers bloomed like spring flowers, and the huqin sounded all around, and the hugonghou, pipa, five strings, thunder, and fire did not think...... The sound of countless ancient musical instruments in the Western Regions is like the local songs and dances that Qin Beiyang heard in Kashgar or Yarkand, lively, mysterious and far-reaching.

Then there was a lot of voice, as if they were in a super bazaar, and the neighing of camels and horses, from time to time there was applause from onlookers, and the girls sang songs in various ethnic languages.

Katya stared around in a panic, and there was nothing to be seen in the pitch black, as if she had been locked up in an abandoned movie theater.

The movie begins.

On both sides of the original cemetery, it is like opening two screens. From nowhere, a beam of light is projected like a movie projection.

They saw a living city, the Western Regions two thousand years ago, Loulan on the Silk Road.

There are not only the Loulan people of Tocharian descent, but also the Han people of Eguanbo Belt, the Qiang people from the Qilian Mountains and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Huns on the steppe, the Sogdians in the river who believe in Zoroastrianism, the Dayueshi people who passed on the Gandhara civilization, the dark-skinned Tianzhu Buddhist monks, and even the prisoners of war and slaves of the Roman Empire......

Qin Beiyang stood blankly on the street of Loulan two thousand years ago, looking at the hustle and bustle all around, but no one noticed him? There were even people who passed through the middle of his body, but they were unharmed.

Are these people ghosts?

No, at this moment, in the Loulan Kingdom two thousand years ago, he was a ghost.

Katya too, as well as the Nine Colors, the Ghost God, and the Russian Horse, are not seen by the people of this time and space, let alone touched.

A group of knights dressed in Han Dynasty clothes rushed towards them, almost hitting Qin Beiyang's chest. The Han people led by him are dusty and dusty, looking like scholars, but they wear a ring-headed knife at their waists.

The guards who came across the Gobi shouted with their last physical strength: "Han envoys, fake Sima, Ban Chao, pay homage to King Shanshan!" ”

Ban Chao?

How could Qin Beiyang be unfamiliar with this brilliant name? "King Shanshan" is the king of Loulan. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was called Loulan, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was renamed Shanshan.

This night, in Loulan City, a big event will happen, and it will also be the starting point of Banchao's great career.

Ban Chao's father, Ban Biao, is a historian who once wrote a postquel to "Historical Records". The elder brother Ban Gu, the son inherited his father's business, and was edicted to cultivate the "Book of Han". Sister Ban Zhao, after the death of Ban Gu, was ordered to enter the palace to continue to repair the "Book of Han" until it was completed.

Ban Chao, who was born in a scholarly family, said: "The eldest husband has no other ambitions, he should still follow Fu Jiezi, Zhang Qian made meritorious contributions to foreign lands, in order to win the title of marquis, and An Neng has been writing for a long time?" ”

Ban Chao's dream is the Silk Road.

He went to the Western Regions with his army and arrived in Loulan with only thirty-six people. He discovered that the Xiongnu envoys and the Shanshan King might have betrayed the Han Dynasty, Ban Chao gathered thirty-six warriors, drank and sang, attacked the Xiongnu camp at night to kill the envoys, and offered his head to the Shanshan King, forcing him to rejoin the Han Dynasty.

Since then, Ban Chao has crisscrossed the Western Regions for thousands of miles, guarding the city of Panlu in Shule State, and a lone army outside Yumen Pass. He was appointed by the imperial court as the protector of the Western Regions, and was named the Marquis of Dingyuan, with thousands of households, and was called "Ban Dingyuan" by later generations. He made all the countries in the Western Regions subordinate to the Eastern Han Dynasty and realized his dream of making meritorious contributions from Rong.

Ban Chao was also a great explorer, and sent Gan Ying as an envoy to Great Qin, which was not the Great Qin, but the Roman Empire, which was once at its peak, and was ruled by Emperor Trajan. Gan Ying passed through the Sabbatical Empire, was stopped in the Persian Gulf, and may have reached Mesopotamia. This is the farthest road that the Chinese have traveled before the Tang Dynasty, and the prestige of the Great Han has spread throughout Eurasia.

Ban Chao, who has lived in the Western Regions for a long time, misses his hometown when he is old, and his sister Ban Zhao also wrote to the emperor to ask for his brother to be recalled. Ban Chao was in the Western Regions for thirty-one years, and when he returned to the capital Luoyang, he was treated as a Hu man in his hometown - it is said that the wind and sand of the desert changed the color of his skin and eyes.

Is this the story of a foreigner, will it also be the story of Qin Beiyang?

Suddenly, all the light in the ancient city of Loulan was extinguished.

On the other side of the light is Xiaomu.

He ordered the tomb robbers to climb down their camels, and no one had ever ridden into the tomb until now - except for the Camel Town Tomb Beasts.

Xiaomu's subordinates are all young offspring, the youngest is only fifteen years old, and the hair on the top and below has not yet grown, it is the mother who handed the child into Xiaomu's hands, hoping to make a fortune with the boss in the coffin, and in the future, he will also be a tomb robber hero who stands up to the sky and has a lot of money.

Two months ago, Xiao Mu took his friends from Luoyang Tomb Robbery Village to dig the Xianyang Tang Dynasty tomb in Guanzhong, and found Shangguan Wan'er and the ghost mother god town tomb beast. In the tomb robbery competition, Xiaomu won a big victory, and the defeated Brother Wolf made dinner for the tomb beast.

After Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum, they returned to Luoyang with the gold and silver treasures in Shangguan Wan'er's tomb. Xiao Mu became the big leader of the tomb robbery village, the leader of the Central Plains faction, one of the seven major tomb robbery schools in the world, and is the "carrying handle" as the saying goes.

Xiao Mu is a natural tomb robber, and he panicked when he didn't dig up the grave for a day, and decided to do another big thing.

Where do you go this time? When he was a child, his father taught him to tell fortunes, which is also a marginal skill of Tufuzi, but it is crucial to determine the location of the ancient tomb, the distance of the tomb crossing, and even the auspicious time of the hand. Tomb robbery is not only a physical work, but also a technical work, which requires knowledge of astronomy, geography, human feelings, and even talents who can help the world, otherwise it is just a thief. According to the popular saying of civilized people in the twentieth century, tomb robbers still have to learn "Mr. De" and "Mr. Sai".

Xiao Mu used Zhou Yi to calculate a hexagram, and the result was 5,000 miles west of Luoyang......

not only calculates the time, place, good luck and evil, but also calculates the name of the person, and finally derives two words: Ban Chao.

In the ancient books brought out of the tomb, he turned out the name of Ban Chao - the great hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who traveled 5,000 miles from Luoyang to the Western Regions, and the first stop was Shanshanguo, where Loulan was located.

Loulan.

When Xiaomu's grandfather was young, he once followed Zuo Zongtang's Western Expedition Army, went out of Yumen Pass, wandered around the Western Regions to rob tombs, and almost died in Luo Bu Naoer in the ancient country of Loulan.

This is where he was destined to be.

Xiao Mu announced his plan to recruit the descendants who volunteered to go to Loulan with him. Some people are afraid of the distance and danger, and some people covet the legendary endless treasures, crying and shouting that they want to go on an adventure with Xiaomu.

In the end, he collected twelve petty tomb robbers.

Why do you want young people who are just starting out, instead of experienced old masters? Because the young people are simply willing to work hard, the old guys are slippery, greedy and selfish, and they do the disgusting thing of killing donkeys in the well, and if this kind of mole comes out of the tomb robbery gang, it is easy to die together.

This trip is thousands of miles, and Xiao Mu knows that he may not be able to come back alive. He left the ama and two children behind to lead the tomb robbery village in his place.

On the day of departure, the mother said goodbye to her son-in-law, and the little daughter-in-law said goodbye to the groom, and the whole village cried.

The ama burst into tears, and the two children, originally surnamed Ouyang, hugged Xiaomu's thighs and cried "Dad!" Father! ”

Kogi kissed the ama on the forehead: "I'll come back alive." ”

After that, he took twelve young men, rode thirteen mules, hid fast guns, iron picks, and Luoyang shovels, and bid farewell to the tomb robbery village.

The German geographer Richthofen researched that Luoyang is the real starting point of the Silk Road, passing through Xi'an, Longxi River Valley, Hexi Corridor, passing through the Jiayu Pass in the westernmost section of the Ming Great Wall, and going out of Yumen Pass in the west, divided into two roads. A road to the northwest leads to Hami and Turpan, which is almost the only passage after the Tang Dynasty. The other road, along the northern foot of the Snow Mountain and the old road of the Shule River, goes due west, which is the road from Ban Chao to Loulan that year.

Xiao Mu and his tomb robbers, who had traveled along the 2,000-year-old Silk Road, had no choice but to cross the desolate desert.

Having replaced their mules with camels, and stocked with fresh water and dry food, they trudged through the salt of Lop Nur for about ten days, and saw a cloud of black smoke in the distance.

Xiao Mu remembered his father's words - there is black smoke in Lop Nur, and there are ancient tombs.

He urged the camels to move at full speed. When they came closer, everyone was dumbfounded, they didn't expect it to be a brand new city, as if there would be an army with loaded guns and ammunition coming out of the hole in the city gate to wipe them out.

Just as Xiao Mu hesitated, Qin Beiyang, who was riding on a sweaty and bloody horse, arrived. There is also a strange Western woman, but the least strange is the small town tomb beast Nine Colors.

Predators and nemesis are coming!

The little woods had no choice, and fled into the dark city gate cave in a panic.