Chapter 68: Transformation



The tunnel was opened under a cliff and was depicted with a black hole on the mural.

Due to the march along the way, there were not many people left in the army, the weather around seemed to be very cold, everyone on the mural shrunk their shoulders, when they saw the cliff in front of them, they seemed to feel that they had found a place to hide from the cold, and under the leadership of the leader, everyone could not wait to walk into the black hole.

Next, they got lost.

In front of their eyes, there was a tomb road that could never be completed, except for the difference in the place of entry, the situation was exactly the same as ours. When I saw this, my heart suddenly pounded, could it be that this remnant army is what Samba said, the army that was forced into the Kunlun Mountains? So is the tall leader on the mural a Songdara?

They used to enter this tomb too?

If so, when was the tomb built?

I couldn't help but pick up my pace, and I couldn't wait to look down.

There were less than a hundred people left in this remnant army, they were trapped behind the tomb, because of hunger and cold, the number of deaths increased, and in the end there were less than ten people left, but at this moment, the content of the mural suddenly changed, and the team of more than ten people arrived at a tomb.

I looked at the tomb on the mural, and a strange feeling arose in my heart, I always felt that this tomb seemed to be seen somewhere, but when I thought about it, I couldn't think of a reason.

At this moment, I suddenly found that at the exit of this tomb, there was a thing drawn, and I couldn't see what it was, so I lay down my face to identify it carefully, and when I saw it, I was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, it was actually a statue with a human head and a wolf body.

Could it be that the tomb painted on this is ...... Is that the burial chamber we just came out of?

Thinking of this, I can't help but look back, what will be on the mural next? Will they be like us, in the graveyard where they are now? I turned on the lights, but the face of the sixth child suddenly appeared in front of me.

He frowned, and his voice was cold: "What are you doing?" "I don't know what the sixth brother does, but since the second uncle is so taboo about him, then he is not a trustworthy object. I shook my head and pointed to the mural, "There's something on it." ”

The sixth turned his gaze, and seemed to have noticed that something was wrong, looked at the content on the mural, and said, "This is ...... Hiss. I heard him gasp and seem to see something incredible.

The sixth was in front of me, he saw more nature than I did, and this sixth man had always given people an unfathomable feeling, even when he passed through that multilateral tomb road, he did not show panic, so his sudden change made me stunned, and I immediately stepped forward and followed his line of sight.

Then, a picture appeared in front of my eyes that ordinary people could not understand.

Because the army in the mural did enter the tomb where we are now, and at the end of the tomb is a palace.

On the throne above the palace, there is a wolf-headed man of God, the people of the army saw this god-man, they all bowed down and bowed, the tall man who led the way, seemed to be saying something to the god-man, in the next mural, the remaining remnants of the army all fell to the ground in pain, however, their heads have become the shape of a wolf's head, I subconsciously counted the people above, except for the wolf-headed god, the army, there are just ten people left.

It coincides with the legend in Samba's mouth. Legend has it that after ten years, the Songdara people came out of the depths of the snow-capped mountains, and behind him, a powerful and silent army, led by nine guards, could it be that at the end of this tomb is the palace depicted in the fresco?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look up ahead, where the flashlight could reach, there was a gray darkness, and farther away, it was pitch black, as if it was a huge black hole.

I looked at the sixth child, and found that his expression also became strange, and then the two of us looked at each other, and invariably pointed the muzzle of the gun forward, and then cautiously moved forward, so what's behind? Kurarije with the head of a wolf? Will we also be like the mural, monsters with wolf heads and human bodies?

My nerves were tense, my mind was full of strange scenes on the murals, I saw all the way, this tomb is very simple, it is difficult to see the characteristics of the times, I can't even determine the age to which he belongs, I can only estimate that it is about the Western Zhou Dynasty according to the legend of the Tibetans, but just two thousand years ago, what happened in this tomb? Perhaps, as Samba says, it is not a tomb, but a temple buried deep in the ground?

Perhaps, on another level, what is expressed in this mural is just the imagination of the owner of the tomb, or is it an exaggerated description of what has been experienced? For example, he is a believer in the god of the envelope, so he fictionalizes himself and his subordinates to become the image of Kulazhijie?

My mind was in a mess, but I always felt that what this mural expressed did not seem to be fictional, because everything recorded on it was close to the ancient legends of the Tibetan people, and I even felt that I was not walking in an underground palace now, but walking and smashing an underground palace.

At this moment, the space in front of us suddenly expanded, and the light of the flashlight emitted out, and it seemed that we had reached the end of the tombway.

At the end of the flashlight, there was an empty space, and I could faintly see the green bricks on the floor, and I sighed, and it seemed that we had entered a tomb again.

Along the way, I think it's a little too smooth, is it that leaving the stuffy oil bottle and the fat man, my physique will disappear when I go down? The sixth man and I glanced at each other, only holding the monocular in our hands, and the flashlights of the two quickly swept the entire burial chamber with four quick shots.

With the slow movement of the flashlight, I gradually figured out the layout of this burial chamber.

The burial chamber was large, rectangular, with black holes on either side, and what appeared to be two ear chambers, but other than that, no other passages were to be seen. The sixth child and I cautiously entered the tomb, this should belong to the category of the East Palace, if you want to meet the brown, this is the first stop.

I cautiously flashed the flashlight, at this moment, a white shadow seemed to flash in front of my eyes, my heart jumped, and I quickly turned the flashlight, and suddenly, a gray sarcophagus appeared in my sight.

The sarcophagus was located in the northeast corner of the burial chamber, not in the middle of the burial chamber, so we didn't notice it at first, so I hurriedly beckoned to the sixth child and said, "Look." At the same time, the sixth man hit the flashlight, and as the light intensified, I couldn't help but feel my heart skip a beat, because I found that there was more than one sarcophagus there.

In the northeast corner of the tomb, two sarcophagi were revealed, and strangely, the lid of the sarcophagus seemed to have been moved, and the lid of one of them was even poured to the side and erected on the tomb wall. What's going on? Has anyone been here before us?

The sixth man made an inexplicable sound from his mouth, and then he removed the light of the flashlight to observe other places, and then found two lamp holders, and then walked over and lit them a few times with a lighter, probably because they had not been lit for too long.

"The coffin in the East Palace is estimated to be a wife and concubine for burial." I considered opening my mouth, and wanted to go up to see what was in the coffin, but I was afraid that the physique of the zongzi that I would encounter when I opened the museum had not disappeared.

"Wife and concubine to accompany the funeral." Lao Liu's mouth repeated what I said, and then I heard his laughter in the dark, and he said: "Don't forget what kind of place this is, this is located in the mountains north of Kunlun, surrounded by Tibetans, and the highest specification of Tibetan tombs is heavenly burials, and the tombs that appear here, if they are Tibetan tombs, then there will definitely be no wives and concubines to accompany the burial, because the Tibetans have never been interested in this." And, do you know what Tibetan burials are all about? ”

My heart jumped when the sixth child said this, and I couldn't help but curse myself in my heart, it seems that I really have too little qualifications, and there are too many things on paper. I don't know much about Tibetan burial customs, but Tibetans have always admired sky burial, that is, after death, the trumpet master in charge of the sky burial will perform the ceremony, and the body will be fed to vultures.

The Tibetans believe that the eagle is the messenger of God, and the eagle can bring the soul of the human soul to the Elysium, and in the Tibetan area of Inner Mongolia, there is also a saying of heavenly burial, that is, the body is fed to the wolf, but no matter what it is fed, the Tibetans have passed it down from generation to generation, they believe that all things are born to support people, and people are asking for nature all their lives, but people are also part of nature, and should follow the laws of the food chain, and after death, return nature with the body.

This ancient idea of giving back coincides with the Han people's concept of the unity of nature and man, so some people once lamented that the soul of human beings is the same, and skin color and blood cannot be stopped.

Today, with the destruction of the environment, the grasslands of Inner Mongolia have begun to desertify, the steppe wolves have gradually disappeared, and the Tibetans there have to replace the wolf burial with cremation, and in the distant Qinghai and Tibet areas facing Inner Mongolia, the sky burial is still prevalent, the vultures in the sky are still circling, as long as the Tibetans look up, they can feel the ancient ecological concept and feel the distant divine culture.

Although the Tibetans are still practicing the burial of the sky, in the evolution of history, with the exchange of various ethnic cultures, the Tibetan magnates also began to bury from time to time, which is only limited to the magnates, and the Tibetan and Han funeral customs exchanges, after the Qin and Han dynasties, the Western Zhou Dynasty naturally will not have a burial.

Then this suspected Tibetan tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty seems to be somewhat contradicted by history, therefore, the sarcophagus in this tomb cannot be a wife and concubine to accompany the burial, although the Tibetan people also have a living burial system, but that is after the introduction of burial.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of the burial pit, and for a while I felt very weird, thinking that this was a very chaotic tomb, in this tomb, two things that could not appear at all, appeared in the same place, burial and burial.

Could it be that this is not the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the age of this tomb may not be so old?

I feel more and more that something is wrong, first of all, the burial pit, first of all, its existence breaks a historical convention, the Tibetans before the Qin and Han dynasties, there is no martyrdom system, then this tomb should be built after the Qin and Han dynasties.

However, according to the previous Samba's statement, this tomb in Kunlun Mountain is the palace of Kulazhijie, which has existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to the content of the mural, the Songdara people also entered this tomb, and the Songdara people lived in the era, so this is a tomb that is opposed to time and history, what is the reason for this situation?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed my mind, and I thought of a possibility.

Don't...... It's not one, it's two?

Samba once said that after the death of the Songdara people, the body was buried in the depths of the snow-capped mountain, could it be this Tianyuan coffin? More than 2,000 years ago, the Songdara people must have found something in this coffin of the Heavenly Abyss, so even after death, they asked to return here, and even built their own tomb with it?

Then, the place where Lao Liu and I are now may be the Tianyuan coffin that has been transformed by the Songdara people, then, the real age of this Tianyuan coffin is even older than that of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

As we all know, the Chinese nation has always claimed to have a splendid civilization of more than 5,000 years, but in fact, the real documented history is only 2,500 years, so where do the remaining 2,000 years go?

More than 2,000 years before that, the era full of myths, like a historical fault layer, in addition to leaving countless reverie myths, did not leave any written records for future generations, archaeologists have always continued to excavate and explore, hoping to find the two thousand years that disappeared, to find the historical fault layer, with the development of archaeology, many thousand-year-old monuments have been unearthed on the land of China, such as Sanxingdui, keel pile and so on.

Many historians have also said that although the formal burial system in Tibet was after the Qin and Han dynasties, in that period of time without any written records, the burial actually existed for a long time, and there were excavations of burial pits in many ancient tombs of unknown age.

If this is the case, then the anomalies in this tomb can be explained, and if this is the case, what is it that attracts the Songdarat people to return even when they die?

I was thinking about it when the sixth child suddenly patted me on the shoulder, and immediately pointed to the two sarcophagi, which seemed to mean that he wanted to take a look.

Although I was afraid, in the end curiosity prevailed, after all, everything just now was just speculation, to know the truth, only the evidence in front of me is the most reliable, because the corpse does not lie, and the clothes and accessories on its body can reflect its true age.

I nodded and walked side by side with the sixth.

As the light of the flashlight got closer and closer, I couldn't help but feel my scalp tingle, because the two sarcophagi that were originally in our sight turned out to be two in multiple places, damn it, how many coffins are there in this tomb?