Seven did so many things overnight, I really don't know how he did it without the help of professional surveying and mapping equipment.

The portrait sculpture under the scorching sun flickered with a faint halo, Jiang Erye's expression was stiff, and he stretched out one hand to the air and froze: "I am very thoughtful, I am very curious about your origin and identity." The Jiang family has been paying attention to Zhu Beichen's every move, and has conducted a detailed investigation into the background of the people who have come into contact with him, but this Qijian is a mysterious character.

All the information collected by the family about the ancient city of Shabu does not detail this square and the mysterious giant statues on the square, and the artistic style of the sculptures is clearly different from the sculpture styles of previous dynasties, so they are unique here.

Qijian didn't pay attention to Jiang Erye's guess about his identity and origin, and he was a little dumbfounded when he asked a question: "Is my origin important?" Compared to the behemoth Jiang family, I am just an insignificant little person, and there is very little information about this ancient city in history, but I believe that the information you have on hand is detailed enough, otherwise it will not be enough for you to come here safely, you want us to help, don't you think you should share something? ”

He rarely speaks, rarely says so much, Jiang Erye is now alone, and if he wants to cooperate, he must show enough sincerity.

Jiang Erye's arm trembled slightly, for fear that few people would threaten like this unscrupulously, the coldness that permeated Qijian's body was full of confidence, and the few people around him all chose to join him: "Forget it, it doesn't hurt if you want to know and tell you." ”

"Have you ever heard the Sangha Sutra? This is one of the Mahayana scriptures of Buddhism, and the sutra says that reciting this sutra can eliminate the seeds of suffering, bring about long-term consequences for many lifetimes in the future, and attain happiness that leads directly to Buddhahood. ”

The Sangha Sutra has always been the most widely circulated classic among the Mahayana classics, and it is not a rare book, and Jiang Erye suddenly talked to them about the Dharma, which made them a little confused.

Zhu Beichen glanced at the fat man inadvertently, Jiang Erye suddenly mentioned that this Buddhist canon is not for no reason, the fat man once said that the clue to his pursuit of the ancient city buried in the sand came from a Buddhist classic story 'Stone City', so does the Sangha Sutra also have detailed information about the stone city.

The Sangha Sutra is a direct record of Shakyamuni's teachings in the royal city, originally written in Sanskrit, and there are many manuscripts that have been handed down, and the content of each manuscript is more or less different, or it can be said that it is incomplete. Only one manuscript from the Han Dynasty is said to have come from India, which records the retribution of the afterlife and describes a city of the dead. The city of the dead is free of disease, pain, happiness and suffering, and it is described as a pure land of bliss in Buddhism, but people don't know why this paragraph is the only one missing in many manuscripts.

Jiang Erye said: "After obtaining this precious manuscript, we began to conduct research for many years, and found the so-called city of death by contacting the scattered clues left in history. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the first batch of people came here and sent an extremely important classic, and I believe you all know what that book is, and it is also what you want to find in this line. ”

The first batch of people came here at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, thinking that we were not the first people to set foot here, who would that group of people be, was it Zhuge Kongming at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty? The Jiang family was Zhuge Liang's cronies back then, and it was easy to understand when they got clues to the whereabouts of ancient books and learned that it was hidden here. Zhu Beichen said in his heart, it turns out that you have long known the whereabouts of the Huangji Heavenly Book, why did you come here after so many years?

The sculpture that has been silent for many years seems to have witnessed that special moment more than a thousand years ago, when a team from the Han Dynasty went to the ancient city of Sha Burial and sent a special object, but unfortunately the sculpture is a dead thing, and it is impossible to restore the scene at that time even if it is another thousand years later.

Qijian nodded: "The version of the Sangha Sutra is the same, but after the big man entered the ancient city, in order to leave clues for future generations to find here, he deliberately added a note to the Sangha Sutra, making this manuscript different from others." ”

Zhu Beichen said: "If that's the case, why didn't you go to find this ancient city at that time, but wait until now?" "Everyone knows the big names in the mouths of the seven rooms, and as the people around the big people, it is impossible for the ancestors of the Jiang family not to know the news that the ancient books were sent away.

Qijian said: "It's easy to explain, at that time, this manuscript was also secretly sent away and left out, in short, it will not be in the hands of your Jiang family, it is estimated that it has only been obtained by you in recent decades." ”

Zhuge Liang is a delicate character, if he wants to bury a secret, even the people around him will not be able to know, if it were not for the various means used back then to let the clever Jiang Wei inadvertently learn of the existence of such a book, and deliberately pay attention to the investigation, I am afraid that the secret of this manuscript will not be known. But even so, since Zhuge Liang's death, the whereabouts of the Sangha Sutra are still a mystery.

The analysis of several people is almost close to restoring the truth of the year, Jiang Erye listened silently, and said in his heart What can you do if you guess the truth, the meaning of the Sangha Sutra no longer exists, and the ruins of the ancient city can basically be determined to be hidden in this square, and now the important thing is to find the real entrance to the ancient city.

Second Master Jiang said: "The guess is good, I am very surprised by your analytical ability." The Sangha Sutra is actually a map of the city of the afterlife, and this manuscript was indeed secretly sent out of Chengdu that year, and within a year of Zhuge Liang's death, an object was sent to Miaojiang. At that time, our ancestors were concerned about the things sent to Miao Jiang, hating Zhuge Liang's wisdom and close to demons, and at the same time secretly arranged for someone to send away an inconspicuous manuscript of Buddhist scriptures. Later, when we found out, due to war and other reasons, the whereabouts became a mystery after all. After countless generations of hard work, we bought it back at an auction in India decades ago. ”

In the following decades, the Jiang family conducted many years of research on the Sangha Sutra, and the ancient sentences transcribed in Sanskrit were based on the differences between ancient and modern words, and the people who copied and adapted this Buddhist scripture deliberately covered up the content, and the full text was not deciphered until ten years ago, and the exact geographical location of the ancient city was finally fixed under an underground place called Lop Nur in the northwest.

Jiang Erye muttered: "We have been waiting for another ten years, ten years ago we discovered that the ruins of the ancient city may be under the Sun Tomb, but at that time our technical conditions did not allow us to do any substantive excavation work. I know my explanation is far-fetched, because the gang went in more than a thousand years ago, and I don't know how they did it, but anyway they went in and brought the ancient books with them. Ten years ago, we started all kinds of research on the space under the tomb of the sun, and everything was done in preparation for today. ”

Zhu Beichen thought for a while and said: "Since the Sangha Sutra records the experience of the predecessors exploring the ancient city buried in the sand, doesn't it record the exact location of the entrance to the ancient city?" ”

The Sangha Sutra records this fact in the hope that future generations will discover the existence of this ancient city and follow the clues to find the ancient book, but why only cover up the entrance to the ancient city. There are also two points that Zhu Beichen can't figure out: who was the original founder of the ancient city of Shaburi, the content of the "Sangha Sutra" reflects that Zhuge Liang was also a latecomer, and regarded this place as a hidden place to collect scriptures, and the scale and pattern of this ancient city and the geography of feng shui are unparalleled in the world, Zhu Beichen wants to know whether it was the prehistoric civilization that created this ancient city far beyond contemporary technology; The second point that puzzled him was the real reason why the ancient book was sent to the ancient city buried in the sand, why it was chosen here, whether it was because the content of this ancient book was too shocking, or whether it should not exist in this world in the first place. Otherwise, wise men such as Zhuge Kongming, why don't they pass on this ancient book from generation to generation, but choose a site to let it be buried under the yellow sand for thousands of years and never see the light of day.

Second Master Jiang listened to Zhu Beichen's words and shook his head: "We didn't think about this problem when we did the research. The map points to the square in the heart of the mountains where we are now, and at that time we thought that this was the final location of this ancient city, who would have thought that this was the scene, a city that could not be seen or touched, and had to find the entrance. ”

This explanation is reasonable and reasonable, and the fat man asked, "Do you have the Sangha Sutra with you now?" ”

Jiang Erye said: "How can such an important thing be carried with me, but I have a scanned copy in the computer, which can be flipped through at any time." As he spoke, he opened an encrypted folder on the computer and skillfully entered the password to unlock it, and a file with a book-like icon was opened, and then the page presented a high-definition topographic map, which was the map that July had secretly memorized. The complete map covers all the geographical terrain here, and the danger areas are marked, and the previous boulder piles are marked on the map one by one.

Han Qingxin leaned in front of the computer, and with the tacit permission of Jiang Erye, he flipped through the documents, this page of the complete map is part of the "Sangha Sutra", and the next few pages are the content analysis of the scriptures, discussing the surrounding environment of the ancient city buried in the sand in a simple and clear way.

Jiang Erye said: "The prototype of the manuscript does not have an accurate topographic map, but it is a map made by us based on the summary of information extracted and summarized from obscure words. ”

"It's really good intentions, first use Sanskrit to adapt a Buddhist scripture, and then enter additional information into it, in the eyes of uninformed people is a Buddhist scripture, where would you know that there is an amazing ancient building buried inside." The person who wrote the book must have been very entangled, not only did not want future generations to discover the secrets in the book, but also couldn't bear that this ancient city and the ancient books contained in it would never be known, so he put a lot of thought into it, Nanaka said.