After Anne watched Stern leave, she turned to Professor Morrill, who was still studying the diary, and asked, "Professor, can you tell me what important things you found in the diary?" Why did you suddenly become so excited? ”

"You know what! It was a surprise that these World War II soldiers had so much historical information about the monk Sulo Bura! I know from their diaries that they seem to know very well that there is a temple built by Brahmins in the pre-Angkorian period, and that their purpose is simple: to find the vast treasure of this temple that has been hidden for thousands of years before the country becomes independent. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info I always thought that the Devaraja monk Sa Luo Pura was a Bula city built by order of a king in the pre-Angkor period, but I didn't expect this diary to say that this Bula city seems to have existed since before the Angkor Dynasty, and has been used as a place for the Brahmin to practice the top power in the period from the establishment of the Angkor Dynasty to the decline! In this way, it is likely that the city preserves a large number of antiquities from the Angkor Dynasty! ”

"What? So you're referring to the fact that this is not just a relic of the Angkor period that we knew at the beginning, including the temple of reincarnation that was used for worship? ”

"Not only that, but there are even many things we don't know. In fact, we have too little information, only know that there is a relic of the former Angkor Dynasty here, I only learned from the inscription that there is a clue to the east of the Preah Vihear temple that there is a Devharatiya monk Sulo Bura, and then according to the inscription, we were able to follow the river all the way, and this is how we accidentally found the river entrance to the remains of this outer city wall. But these French soldiers, unlike us, had a lot of information about this place from the beginning, and I guess they all knew what we knew from the reliefs, and it was in that canvas bag, but unfortunately most of the information was lost. All that was there was a notebook to record their search for the ruin, and a few drawings that seemed to be of little use at the moment. ”

"What's on the drawings? And why do you think these soldiers have so much information? ”

The professor took out four moldy and yellowed drawings from his bag and handed them to Anne, and continued: "This is not recorded in their diary, but I suspect that they may have come from within the royal family in Phnom Penh at that time, because they also mentioned in their diary that this operation was also related to some forces in the royal family of Phnom Penh. You can take a look at these drawings, and the style is similar to what we see in the moat wall. I guess they found it on the ruins of some temples and painted it as it is, and they painted it very carefully and meticulously. ”

Anne took the drawings, looked at them carefully, and found that the style was indeed the same as the reliefs on the moat walls, but the content was relatively more shocking. It's like the first picture she saw of a group of naked mountain ghosts dragging a wooden boat on the riverbank, which had nothing but a huge pillar and was dragging it upstream. Anne guessed that the mountain ghosts were originally native to Indochina, because they were dark and thin compared to a leader who appeared to be commanding the ship. The second one she could only tell was a painting of an early Brahmanical temple, and the third appeared to be a picture of a sudden flood washing away the temple, trees, various animals and people. The fourth one is actually a photo, the picture on it has been blurred because of the age, but it can be seen that it is a stone tablet engraved with Sanskrit.

"Looks like we can't find any information about the giant banyan tree and the strange parasites in these drawings, Professor, is it in the diary?"

"No, it's a record of what they've encountered along the way, and it's pretty much the same as we know, but they also know that if they want to make it through the jungle here, they'll have to find a 'humanoid tree' and a 'boulder' first. And judging by the last few pages of their records, it seems that they found the 'Humanoid Tree', and then the diary broke when it got there. ”

"So you mean to say that the 'humanoid tree' is the big banyan tree we are on? Isn't that a boulder..."

"Yes, the megalith probably refers to our location, and in the time of the Khmer people in Angkor, the reliefs were generally carved and then assembled, and most of the content represented was relatively simple, and generally had a symmetrical structure. Therefore, there is not much content that can be expressed on the relief, so they carved 'human-shaped trees' and 'boulders' on the reliefs to symbolize the giant banyan tree and the pile of boulders in reality. ”

I saw Anne take out the drawing with the relief of the "humanoid tree" again, and still felt very incomprehensible: "You see, this is the 'human-shaped tree' carved on our third relief, this 'human' is standing in the trunk in a strange posture, a bit like a kind of dancing posture of a person, if this giant banyan tree is one of the 'human-shaped trees' in the relief, then why does it carve a special 'human' in it?" In fact, we don't see any human symbolism near the trunk of the giant banyan tree. And why are there so many weird creatures like the Giant Eye Snake under the giant banyan tree? ”

Professor Morrill pondered Anne's question, but he could not think of a plausible explanation for the moment, but he did recall an interesting historical source about the Angkor dynasty. He told Anne that there is an ancient book in China that has been handed down, and that a person from the Yuan Dynasty named Zhou Daguan came to the capital of Angkor in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty in ancient China, stayed here for a year, and then returned to China to write an ancient book called "The Legend of the Wind and Soil of Zhenla". I was researching this dynasty at the time, and I also found the French translation of the book for reference, which mainly recorded the geography and humanities of Angkor Thom in the form of a travelogue. One of the more interesting is that when he was in Angkor Thom, he heard from the locals that there was a well-guarded golden pagoda in the palace at that time, and there was a hydra spirit in it, which was the patron saint of their country, and the king would go to the golden pagoda every night to sleep with the snake spirit that turned into a woman's body*** and even the queen could not go in, and the most bizarre thing was that if this snake spirit did not appear overnight, then the king's death time would come. If the king does not go to the golden tower to see the snake spirit one night, then there will be a disaster.

Anne listened to this sensational story, and she thought it was not as interesting as the professor said, and even unspeakably terrifying.

"As far as I know, China's history and culture have always been broad and profound, and they seem to pay a lot of attention to the preservation of ancient historical books, such as our sinologist Professor Sha Wan, and Ma Si Bole have devoted themselves to the study of Chinese culture. I've also seen a lot of them translate historical documents that have been preserved in ancient China. I have read the French translation of the book you mentioned, and I think the translated meaning may not be what they originally wanted to express, after all, the original meaning of the ancient words is difficult to guess accurately. Or is this story just processed by the Khmer people in the streets and alleys of ancient times, and turned into a kind of imagination of the Khmer people at that time about the secret life in the heavily guarded royal palace? ”

Anne paused, then continued: "But I think so, if the story recorded in this travelogue is true, it is that the Hydra spirit can influence the fate of this country, and it is still related to the religious worship of Brahmins. I suspect that the hydra spirit in this story has nothing to do with the snake god Naga from India, but what does this have to do with the 'humanoid tree' and the spirits under the giant banyan tree? ”