The seven of us searched for a way through the ruins, and when we came across the collapsed place, we took a detour, and walked for a long time to come to the middle of the ancient city, where the streets were quite wide, and although the yellow sand was everywhere, the pattern of the streets could still be seen.

However, apart from the sloping black tower, there are no other large buildings in this vicinity, let alone the royal palace, and there are not even a decent private houses, all weathered earthen walls.

Professor Chen said that the royal palace here may be built underground, and there is too much sand in the city, so let's go to the black tower and watch from a high place to see if we can find the entrance to the underground palace.

The base and most of the arched stone doors are buried in the sand, and the black tower is carved out of the large stone of the Zagrama Mountain, and is six stories high, slightly sloping, but still very strong. In addition to the rarity of building materials, there is a black olive-shaped stone ball at the top of the tower.

Professor Chen put on reading glasses, looked up for a long time, and then looked through the binoculars, saying to himself as he looked: "Yes, I didn't think of it before. ”

I wanted to ask him what he hadn't expected, but Professor Chen slumped short and got into the tower gate, and he seemed to be in a hurry to confirm something, so we hurriedly followed.

The walls of the tower are densely carved with peculiar ghost cave inscriptions, and each floor has a black stone statue, and the first layer is a stone sheep, but there is nothing special. On the second floor is a stone statue, the size of an ordinary person, with a high nose and deep eyes, half-kneeling in the tower. The third layer turned out to be the giant pupil stone figure we saw in the nameless town when we were hiding from the sandstorm.

Professor Chen stopped and said to us, "It seems that my guess is correct, the source of those giant pupil stone figures unearthed in various places is the Exquisite Kingdom, and the material is the black stone of Nazagrama. ”

Sadipon asked, "Professor, what is this tower for?" Why is there a statue on each floor? ”

Professor Chen said: "I speculate that this black tower is used to show the status of the ghost cave clan, and the stone statues on each floor represent different levels, the first layer is livestock, and if I guess correctly, there should be another layer underground, where hungry ghosts from hell are placed." The second layer is the common people, including all the Hu people in the Western Regions, whose status is only higher than that of cattle and sheep, which is equivalent to slaves. The third layer is the portrait of the giant pupil, I just saw, the stone ball at the top of the tower is the shape of an eye, the totem of the giant pupil stone man and the eye shape, representing the worship of the eye of this nation. Let's go up and take a look, what is the higher status in the Elite Country. ”

The fat man said, "Even my level can guess, and I bet it must be a statue of the Queen." As he spoke, he went up to the fourth floor first.

I followed closely behind, and went up to take a look, but unexpectedly, the stone statue in this layer, 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 sharp sword and shield, and the face is a male face, the face is hideous, and the eyes are staring, as if it is the angry King Kong in the temple in the interior, and the stone statue also has a black ball on the back of the head, which is the same as the strange snake in the Zagrama Mountain.

Professor Chen and others also came up one after another, and when they saw this strangely shaped stone statue, they were amazed: "This seems to be the patron saint of the kingdom, and there is also a black ball in the shape of an eye on his head, it seems that the ghost cave people really believe that the eye is the source of a qiē power." The status of the Patronus is still below the Queen, and it seems that the Queen of Perfection has indeed been deified. Let's go to the fifth floor and see if it's the statue of the queen. ”

Just as she was about to go up, Ye Yixin was blown by the morning breeze on the tower, and suddenly woke up, and Shirley Yang took out the kettle and fed her some water. She is still very weak, but compared to when she was unconscious, it is much more reassuring now, her dehydration is still very obvious, but for the time being, there is no need to worry about her life, now that she has woken up, then within a day or two she will be treated with a large amount of cold saline, and it will be fine.

We were all anxious to find out what was strange on the tower, and by the way, we looked for the entrance to the underground palace of the ancient city, and helped her to the fifth floor of the black tower.

During my short journey to the fifth floor of the Black Tower, I thought about various possibilities, but I didn't expect that the fifth floor was empty, not even the base of the stone statue, but there were more ciphertexts on the walls.

I asked Professor Chen, "Is this floor destroyed?" Or stolen? ”

Professor Chen hesitated for a moment and said, "It's hard to say, just look at the upper floor to know what is famous here." ”

The stone statue in the black tower aroused everyone's curiosity, and they couldn't wait to go up the steps of the tower to the top floor, and in the top of the tower stood a black throne, on which sat a statue of a woman, dressed in gorgeous costumes, and her face was carved into the appearance of wearing a veil, and she could not see her face, but at a glance, she could see that this stone statue was exactly the same as the exquisite queen depicted in the murals of the ancient tomb of Prince Gumo, which was the queen's full-body stone statue.

Everyone was talking, and they were all speculating about what the queen looked like.

I couldn't think of a reason, so I asked them, "What kind of medicine is sold in this queen's gourd?" Why don't even the statues show their true faces? ”

The fat man replied: "In my opinion, it is a trick, what is the first beauty in the Western Regions, most of them are ugly and ugly, otherwise they are so hidden and afraid that people will see them?" But this figure is really reasonable, the plate is not successful, and the strip is still smooth. ”

I said that you have accumulated some virtue in your mouth, these people have been dead for 2,000 years, you still look at the good or bad of people's bodies, you see how similar the things in this city are to those legends, in case this queen is really a monster, I can't tell where I will jump out and bite you, let's not guess, let's listen to what the professor has to say.

Professor Chen has never spoken since he went up to the sixth floor of the Black Tower, and has been connecting these clues in his mind, and then he has thought about it, and after listening to our words, he said: "As I said before, this stone tower is likely to be a spiritual symbol, with obvious hierarchical characteristics, from high to low, that is, from high to low, that is, from noble to low. The people of the Elite Kingdom are mainly composed of the Onidong Clan, which has long been extinct, and no bones of any of them have been excavated, so it is impossible to deduce the origin and background of this race. So far, our biggest discovery is that this race uses the eye as a totem, which is definitely a major breakthrough in the study of ancient Western civilization research, with this basis, many of the puzzles that have plagued scholars for many years will be solved. ”

The fat man asked again, "Then why is this fifth layer empty?" ”

I suddenly thought that we were in the ancient tomb of Prince Gumo, and when I heard what Shirley Yang said, I couldn't help but blurt out: "Imaginary space! ”

Professor Chen nodded slightly and said, "Exactly, above the Patron Saint, there is an indescribable imaginary space, and the Queen is above it, as if she completely controls this unknown space. There is also an eye-shaped totem at the top of the tower, which indicates that the queen's power also comes from her eyes. ”

Hearing this, everyone's hearts inevitably felt a little hairy, is there really such a space in this world that is beyond human common sense? And the queen can control that other world through guò eyes, isn't she really a monster? Luckily, she's dead.

Professor Chen saw that everyone was a little worried, so he continued: "You don't need to be nervous, the ancient rulers mostly used these myths to fool the people, so as to consolidate their dominance, just like those emperors in the Central Plains, they all said that they were the true dragon son of heaven and gave orders to the heavens, but in fact, it was just a means to fool the people. It is not surprising that this queen never shows her face and pretends to be a ghost. However, these monuments are of great value for the study of ancient history and culture, and the significance of this stone pagoda is very important. ”

When we saw that there was nothing but the stone statue in the black tower, we looked down on the whole city from the tower, and saw that the entire exquisite city was mixed with the yellow sand in the desert, and the outline of the ruins of the ancient city was also the shape of a huge eye.

Professor Chen looked at it and asked me, "Brother Hu, you have a very good opinion on feng shui, what do you think of the feng shui in this city?" ”

I thought to myself that my first priority now was to find a source of water in the palace, so why did this old man test me again? Does the professor think that the queen's tomb is just below the palace? Then he carefully looked at the surrounding geographical shapes.

I pointed to the Zagrama Twin Mountains to the north and said, "Professor, the black mountains look like a black dragon in the desert, but unfortunately the middle is disconnected, and one dragon becomes two snakes. In my humble opinion, the valley in the middle was excavated by hand, and the stones excavated in the mountains may have been used as raw materials for the black towers and stone men in the city. In ancient times, emperors began to prepare their tombs for a hundred years after they ascended the throne. Presumably, the Exquisite Queen is also a strange person with outstanding intelligence, knowing that the black dragon is unlucky, she mobilized manpower to cut off and nail the black dragon, so that it will always guard her mausoleum, and this city has formed an excellent treasure cave. If the queen's mausoleum is really in the city, the scale must be not small, so there is one thing I don't understand, Professor You said that her palace is underground, and I think the ancient tomb is also underground, which is a bit cramped. ”

Professor Chen praised: "Sure enough, I think the palace and the ancient tomb are indeed underground in the city, but they are not crowded together, they may be divided into three layers, this layer above ground is the castle, the underground layer is the palace, and the deepest part is the tomb of the exquisite queen." The elite country is powerful, driving the 100,000 slaves of the surrounding small countries, and even the Nazagrama Mountain can force a valley to be carved out, and although the project of this underground palace and mausoleum is large, it can also be done. ”

Legend has it that explorers have visited this ancient city more than once, but the yellow sand is constantly moving, and there is no trace of them at all, and some of them may have entered the underground palace, but it is completely impossible to prove, and naturally it is impossible to see where those people entered the underground palace.

Knowing that the royal city was at the foot, but he couldn't find the entrance, it made people anxious. We looked at the streets under the tower, one broken house after another, and finally found a stone building in the city that was higher than ordinary houses, and it was also covered with a layer of yellow sand, which was not easy to find if we didn't look closely.

It seemed that this was the only clue, we hurried to the front, this building seemed to be a temple, also made of Zagrama black stone, the stone gate caused a huge beast with a large mouth open, a large amount of yellow sand piled up at the door, the fat man and I dug a passage, everyone put on gas masks, and advanced with cold smoke and fire.

The stone hall is very grand, there are 2816 giant stone pillars, but the front of the door is blocked by yellow sand, and there is no sand inside.

There is a jade eyeball enshrined on the ground in the deepest part of the hall, and there are naturally formed red silk and blue pupils in the jade.

I was stunned, obediently, this thing must be priceless, that is, just look at it, touch it, and it is not in vain to be born and die into a desert, it is really an artifact, if you don't see it with your own eyes, how can you think of such a treasure in the world.

The fat man couldn't hold it back, and wanted to move the jade eyeball down and put it in the backpack, but after a few efforts, the eyeball seemed to take root on the floor, and it didn't move at all.

Professor Chen was afraid that the fat man would be brutal and destroy this ancient artifact, so he hurriedly pulled him away and told him not to move. Shirley Yang found that there was a groove on the jade eyeball, which had a strange shape, and it was very similar to the fat man's jade pendant, so he said to the fat man, "Put your family heirloom jade pendant on it and try it, this seems to be a mechanism." ”

The fat man was overjoyed, took out his jade pendant from his arms, pushed everyone else aside, and inserted the jade pendant into the groove of the jade eyeball with his own hands: "If this is right, then this big eyeball is Lao Tzu's, whoever grabs it is in a hurry, don't blame Lao Tzu for being unwelcome." His grandmother's, this is really a good thing, old Hu, this time we are really famous. ”