If "Zoroastrianism" flourished in Gaochang, Yanqi, Kangguo, Shule, Khotan, and other places in Xinjiang, China, then another Central Asian language discovered in the Tarim Basin at the beginning of the last century -- Tocharian -- is a large number of religious, literary, and medical documents written in Tocharian language found in the ancient cities of Kucha, Yanqi, and Turpan, as well as in the Tibetan scripture caves of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info so I can basically conclude that Chris and Kaizuka still have the usage of this disappearing language

I really didn't expect that Zoroastrianism and Tocharian still exist alive, and I was lucky enough to be able to come into contact with them, which is really incredible.

Before my excitement calmed down, the blind bear crept over from behind, pointed to the ghost building, made a silent gesture to us, and whispered, "There seems to be movement in the ghost building opposite." ”

I was extremely nervous and said, "You're talking about the flames going around." ”

The dense blue flames on the five-story ghost tower are not fixed outside the walls of each floor at all, but they wander around like ghost fires, but there is no pattern to follow, and it is terrifying to watch.

Although this is not the first time I have seen such a strange thing, I suddenly feel panicked when I think of the ghost fire wandering around and the monster in the mouth of the dragon shrine. The first few levels are already so difficult to deal with, and this towering five-story ghost building will definitely be even more dangerous.

Yasuko and Tiger Roaring Forest, perhaps afraid of being preempted by the people of the Kaizuka Society, kept rushing to the front, and just as we were about to catch up with them, suddenly they turned back to us and gestured, and the three of us quickly ran to their side.

At first, I was worried that Anzi had discovered some danger, but it turned out that when they were going up the stone steps on the terrace, they found a small line of words engraved in a place.

These words are extremely scribbled, and they are not very big, if it weren't for Anzi and them going up the stairs with a flashlight, we wouldn't have noticed the words written on them. These words don't seem to have been carved at the behest of the tomb owner, and I guess they may have been left behind by the craftsmen who built the five-story ghost tower.

I bent down to study the characters carefully, and found that they were carved on the different staircases, and that they were carved on the convex side of the stone staircase, not on the front, that is, only those who went up the stairs could see them, and those who went down the stairs could not see them.

I can't help but wonder, could it be that these words are afraid that the dead will see them? Because the owner of the tomb is dead, he has no chance to go upstairs again, unless he becomes a "big zongzi" and may walk down the stone steps.

Anzi asked me, "Xiaolu, you study archaeology, do you know these words?" ”

I don't know any of the characters, but I can only roughly see that they are very similar to the characters we see in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty tomb in Nanjing, which means that these characters are also very likely to be ancient Dongba characters.

I told them what I thought, and the blind bear was the first to clap his leg and exclaim, "Well, this can be connected, it seems that they are all related to the secret of the silver hunt!" Maybe it's time for the brothers to unlock the secret! ”

I wasn't that optimistic, I just deliberately glanced at Long Zhenyan to see his expression, and this glance almost scared me enough. Long Zhenyan's face gradually began to shrink and deform, and his skin became more and more pale, his hair was about to fall out, and his body was curled up more and more.

Although he was afraid, I knew what Long Zhenyan meant when he said that time was running out, and his curse was about to start.

If I do come across the bloody corpse transformed by the Dragon Shrine, I really don't know if I can do it.

As I was pondering, I suddenly heard the sound of someone falling.

I looked back and saw that Chris and the others were coming towards us, and Cao Kekao didn't know why he had fallen on the stone steps.

This kind of stone steps, which are almost 50 centimeters high, are very difficult to walk, because you have to lift your legs very high to step steadily, and I have just walked a dozen steps, and I am already tired and panting, and the whole soles of my feet are struggling, and the pressure is very painful.

I looked up, and the "blue fire" above seemed to be moving downward, no wonder Cao Kekao could wrestle, it must have been surprisingly seen, and he didn't notice the steps under his feet.

Chris seems to be still immersed in his belief in Zoroastrianism, and he looks very religious when he walks up the steps. And my eyes and all my energy were fixed on the moving blue flames. From the experience I had gained earlier, the blue flame must have been unusual, or perhaps it was a living creature.

Before he could take a few steps, Anzi suddenly spoke, he told us to stop quickly, and said eagerly, "I remember, this thing is not fire, it's a black death butterfly!! ”。

His words gave me a slap in the face, and I thought to myself that this was over, it turned out that this mass of ghostly fire was really alive.

Anzi continued, "When I was a special soldier, I went to a no-man's land deep in the mountains once, and there was this kind of glowing butterfly in it, and insiders called it the Black Death Butterfly. This kind of thing is very rare, and some people in the nearby villagers will never see it once in their lives. ”

"It is a carnivorous butterfly, and the black dead butterfly usually colonizes deep caves, intermingling with vampire bats. The larvae feed on the blood sucked back by the males, who generally hunt with vampire bats, and the main reasons why the bats welcome them are the anesthetic phosphor powder on their wings and the secretions on the siphon that prevent blood clotting. Female butterflies can evolve sharp teeth and venom sacs, from which all toxins enter the sacs, and their venom can liquefy the muscles of the prey, and the venom can be hunted by spray and injection. The phosphorus powder on their wings fluoresces in blue-green color when it encounters air. In particular, the fluorescence is extremely strong after eating. ”

Anzi's words scared me into a white sweat, first of all, whether it is true or not, if there really is a tomb of this scale, then there is nothing impossible.

I think back to what I had just seen, and the blue light didn't seem so intense that it could be described as faint. In this way, so many black dead butterflies should not have eaten for a long time, and now that our gang has taken the initiative to send them to the door, they are not happy to accept it! In particular, Yasuko also said that there would be vampire bats, which made me even more restless. It seems that before entering the ghost building, we have to think about it in the long run.

There are more and more points of light on the ghost building, and they are starting to get closer and closer, and the "starlight" around them is like a firework that shoots out, I see that Chris is still calm, it's incredible, but after thinking about it, is it that they have mastered any insect repellent skills, obviously here, they seem to know much more than we know.