Chapter Twenty-Six: Entering the City

In the midst of this golden molten desert, the Exquisite Ancient City stands silently, like a silent giant, guarding the eternal secrets.

The scale of this exquisite ancient city is enough to live 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the famous cities such as Loulan in that year, in their heyday, were only 10,000 or 20,000 residents, and the army of more than 3,000 people is enough to see the prosperity of this exquisite ancient city.

Today, the city has been largely ruined, buried in the desert for more than a thousand years, and some parts are difficult to distinguish whether they are sand dunes or fortresses, and most of the towers have collapsed and weathered.

Just when Shao Shan and the others were in a surging mood and were about to enter the city, the old man An Liman suddenly changed his hexagram, shook his head like a rattle, and refused to enter the ruins of the ancient city without saying anything.

"Old man, it's all here, what are you talking to me about!" The fat man glared at An Liman angrily, and he had the urge to go up and tear An Liman.

Hu Bayi hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the fat man: "What's wrong with you, old man?" ”

"Comrade Hu, I won't go in!" An Liman said to Hu Bayi.

"Then you have to have a reason, old man!" Hu Bayi helplessly supported his forehead, and along the way, he was tossed miserably by An Liman.

"Well, there is a strange snake with a black tumor here, it is the messenger of the devil, which means that Hu Da abandoned this desert to the devil, and there is no place for Hu Da to shelter, even if he kills me, I will not go."

An Liman's religious consciousness is very strong, there is no place for Hu Da's protection, he will not go anyway, everyone persuaded to no avail, Shao Shan and a few people discussed, can only let him set up camp in the mountain pass first, wait for everyone to return, and then the group set foot on the trip.

The distance from the mountain pass to the ancient city is very close, and after a meal, Shaoshan and a few people arrived in front of the city gate, the city gate has already collapsed, and the ditch in front of the city has been filled with yellow sand, and there is a dead silence in the ruins around.

In today's ancient city, there are no large buildings except for a temple-like building, not even a decent room does not exist, there are all weathered earthen walls, and everyone can only move towards the temple, hoping to gain something.

Walking through the ruins and before coming to the temple, I saw that the entire temple was basically buried in the sand, and the originally wide and magnificent arched stone door was now only one person high, and a large amount of sand poured into the temple almost filled it.

"Haha, Lao Hu, Brother Shao, hurry up!"

The fat man took the lead in getting into it, followed by Shao Shan, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and others, and suddenly the beams of flashlights brought a little light to the dark hall.

I saw that the whole hall was very open, the strong light of the powerful flashlight could not penetrate the darkness in the depths, the walls of the temple were densely engraved with strange ghost cave inscriptions, and there was a black stone statue on each floor, and the first layer was a stone sheep, but there was nothing special; On the second floor, there is a stone figure, the size of an ordinary person, with a high nose and deep eyes, half-kneeling on a pedestal; On the third floor is a giant pupil stone figure.

"I see, this is used to show the status of the Ghost Cave Clan, and the stone statues on each layer represent a different level!" Professor Chen, who kept rubbing the stone statue, suddenly shouted.

Since entering the ancient city, Professor Chen and Professor Hao are like children who have found their favorite toys, they can study even a wall for a long time, and now they are even more excited to almost tremble when they enter the temple.

"This first layer is livestock, which has the lowest status; The second layer is ordinary people, including all the Hu people in the Western Regions, whose status is only higher than that of cattle and sheep, equivalent to slaves, and the third layer is this giant pupil stone statue, which represents the worship of the eyes of this nation! ”

"The teacher is right, it must be like this, look at what is on it!" Hao Aiguo was also in a mood at this time, this was their lifelong wish, and now it has finally come true.

"Hey, Lao Hu, I said these two old men are crazy!" The fat man was startled by Professor Chen's shouts, he really couldn't understand what they looked like.

"Can you accumulate some oral virtue, this is research, do you understand!" Hu Bayi replied angrily.

Professor Chen seemed to be ten years younger at this time, and he stepped onto the fourth floor in three or two steps, and Shirley Yang hurriedly followed.

The stone statue on this layer was unexpected by several people, this stone statue, with a snake body and a human head, has thick limbs, the hind limbs are in the shape of a beast, the forelimbs are in the shape of a human, holding a sword and shield, the face is like a male face, the face is hideous, staring at the eyes, as if it is the angry eyes of the temple in the mainland, and the stone statue has a black ball on the back of its head, which is the same as the strange snake they encountered in the Zagrama Mountain before.

Shirley Yang is also a learned person, she had heard her father talk a lot about this knowledge before, and when she saw the stone statue, she immediately made a decision: "This should be the patron saint of the Exquisite Country, the eyes on the head of the stone statue represent the belief of the Ghost Cave people that the eyes are the source of all power!" ”

"Yes, Shirley is so right!"

"Uncle Chen, you have complimented me, I just heard my father talk about it before!"

However, when a few people went up to the fifth floor, the originally speculated statue of the Exquisite Queen did not appear, but was empty, not even the base of the stone statue, but there were more ghost caves on the wall.

"What does this mean, hasn't it been built yet?" The fat man turned around a few times, and he didn't have a clue, so he asked suspiciously.

"This should represent the imaginary space!" Shao Shan said in a deep voice.

"What Comrade Xiao Shao said makes sense, above the guardian saint, there is an indescribable imaginary space, and the Exquisite Queen is above this space, representing her supreme status!" Professor Chen said approvingly.

"This trip is really worth it, not only have I found the Exquisite Ancient City, but I have finally made a breakthrough in the research of the Ghost Cave Clan!"

"Imaginary space, what imaginary space?" The more the fat man listened, the more confused he became, and he hurriedly grabbed Shao Shan and asked.

"Let Miss Yang explain it to you!" Shao Shan kicked the ball to Shirley Yang.

Shirley Yang glanced at the fat man and said: "Legend has it that the eyes of the Absolute Queen are the passage connecting the underworld, as long as she looks at people, the other party will disappear out of thin air without a trace, and will never come back, where the disappeared people go, I'm afraid only they know, this space is the source of the Absolute Queen's power, so this space has such a high status!" ”

"This is too, this person disappears after a glance, is this queen a monster?" Hu Bayi and the fat man both felt a little furious when they heard it.

"It's not a monster, but some peculiarities are possible, and now as long as you find the coffin of this exquisite queen, everything will be revealed!" As he spoke, Shao Shan shone the light of the flashlight into the depths of the main hall, where there were more secrets waiting for them to explore.