Chapter 131: The Imperial Palace
I walked slowly over and sat down in the chair made of pure gold, and at that moment I seemed to see the little mute dancing in front of me......
Long Xiaoman saw that there was something wrong with my expression, and hurriedly asked me what was wrong, I waved my hand lightly and said it was okay, then took a deep breath, tried to calm my emotions, and asked her: "After the ancient slaughter of the city, what will happen to those corpses?" ”
"Bury, or burn it intensively." Long Xiaoman looked at me and said.
I took a deep breath and nodded, "Where are these locations usually arranged?" ”
Long Xiaoman thought for a moment and said, "What do you mean, the big tomb that Mo Yue said ......?"
I nodded, "This is just an underground city, not a big tomb, I think the big tomb that Mo Yue refers to is probably the place where those corpses are buried." ”
Long Xiaoman pondered for a moment and said, "Probably not, she said that there are a lot of treasures in that tomb, and after the soldiers slaughtered the city, they would never build a mausoleum for those who were slaughtered!" ”
I thought about it, and I think so, but there is a new question, the identity of the tomb owner who can be buried in the tomb must be extraordinary, those who were slaughtered cannot have such treatment, even if it was the city lord of Loulan City, after the city was broken, it was only the identity of a prisoner, I think I must not have been so merciful back then, and I would have spent so much effort to build a mausoleum for a captive.
However, what kind of people would be in an empty city that had been slaughtered, who would have the qualifications to build a tomb in this place, and where would that tomb be?
I told Long Xiaoman these questions, and Long Xiaoman was also puzzled after hearing it, and he couldn't say why.
"Although Mo Yue, the three thousand princesses, is fake, the matter of the mausoleum is real."
Long Xiaoman pondered for a moment and said: "The tomb that can make the ghost tribe and Moyue target, the identity of the tomb owner must be extraordinary, the only one with this qualification is the Loulan City Lord, but after the city is broken, he will also become a prisoner, so the tomb owner cannot be him." ”
"Who could that be? Could it be that there were more noble people in Loulan City at that time than the status of the lord of Loulan City, but ......"
Halfway through the sentence, I was suddenly stunned, and a very terrifying thought popped up in my head, and after a long time, I opened my mouth wide and pointed at myself, "The tomb owner can't be the same me more than 2,000 years ago!" ”
Long Xiaoman looked at me and nodded slowly, "This is the only reasonable explanation, after you broke the city, you may have died here for some reason, and then your subordinates buried you here." ”
I thought about it for a moment and said, "But in some of the houses we had before, we found that we had not eaten the leftover food, and even the gold and silver jewelry had not had time to be put away, indicating that the army at that time had left in a hurry. ”
"And the manpower and time it takes to build a big tomb is not trivial, not to mention the emperor-level ones, there are those who have been repaired for decades, even if I was just a general at the time, I can't do things hastily, and Mo Yue also said that it is a big tomb, which is a bit illogical."
"I didn't figure it out before." Long Xiaoman looked at me and said, "But now I suddenly figured it out, why didn't those soldiers take those gold and silver jewelry with them when they retreated, maybe they didn't receive any urgent orders, but deliberately left those things." ”
I tapped my head lightly and wondered, "Intentionally?" ”
Long Xiaoman nodded, "Yes, think about it, why did they estimate that they left those gold and silver jewelry, and every house was neatly cleaned." ”
I thought about it for a while, and suddenly slapped my head and said, "You mean, this underground city is my mausoleum more than 2,000 years ago, and the city is sinking into the ground, not due to natural causes such as earthquakes, but man-made. ”
"At that time, the soldiers didn't know what method they used, and after they all evacuated, they sank the entire city into the ground to form a natural luxury underground palace!"
After finishing speaking, even my own feeling is incredible, if my guess is correct, it means that I don't know how awesome it is more than 2,000 years ago, after I died, it was a whole city that was buried, and it was the famous ancient city of Loulan.
The ancient city of Loulan is a mystery in the whole world, I don't know how many people have spent their lives looking for traces of the ancient city of Loulan, if they know that the ancient city of Loulan that they have been studying hard is my burial object more than 2,000 years ago, I don't know what the expression will be.
"The Imperial Palace!" There is no need for Long Xiaoman to remind me, I have already thought of the Imperial Palace, if the previous guess is correct, then the Imperial Palace must be the main burial chamber more than two thousand years ago.
Although Loulan does not belong to the ancient Central Plains, it is a minority country, but the location of the palace is roughly the same, the ancient people are very particular about feng shui, the location of the palace, generally built in the center of the city.
The whole city was lit with torches, as if someone was showing us the way, but now we didn't have the heart to think about it so much, and headed straight for the palace.
The Loulan Palace is not as majestic and tall as I thought it would be, but it is still the largest building in the city.
The location of the gate was sealed with something grayish-brown, somewhat like cement, which further confirmed our suspicion that no one would seal the palace gate, and if it did, then there was only one reason: after it was sealed, there was no intention of opening it again.
Long Xiaoman and I walked around the palace and found that the entire palace was made of huge stones, and the ground was also a whole piece of hard rock, so we couldn't find a weak place to enter.
In desperation, I finally went back to the main gate of the palace, and I tried to poke the gray-brown thing that sealed the doorway with my dagger, leaving only a light white mark on it, and it is conceivable that this thing must be no less hard than modern concrete.
Long Xiaoman walked over and touched the sealed soil, and leaned over to sniff it with his nose, frowning, "This is a powder made of glutinous rice flour and a kind of shell, and then added watermarks, grass ash and other dozens of things according to the proportion, its hardness is no less than modern concrete, and it is more resistant to wind and sun than concrete." ”
"The megaliths of the pyramids in ancient Egypt are a bit similar to this kind of enclosure, but I didn't expect that in the ancient country of Loulan more than 2,000 years ago, this kind of thing has been invented, it seems that the brilliant civilization of the ancient country of Loulan is far beyond the imagination of the world!"
After listening to this, I quickly asked, "That means we can't get in?" ”
Long Xiaoman turned his head to look at me, and said with a playful expression, "There is a way, but I have to wronged you a little." ”
I hurriedly said that it's all at this time, if there is anything wronged or not, you can say it quickly, what can be done.
Long Xiaoman said, "I just saw an ancient well on the other side of the square, and there is water in it, you go and find a way to fetch two buckets of water." ”
"What are you doing with water?" I pointed to the sealed earth, "Could it be that this thing can be soaked with water?" ”
Long Xiaoman nodded, "That's probably the case." ”
I waved my hand and said, "Hey, I thought this thing was so evil, it turned out to be a matter of two buckets of water, you wait here, I'll come when I go." ”
After that, I ran in the direction of the square, found the ancient well, and then twisted two buckets of water with a rope, and then returned to the gate of the palace.
"Here comes the water!" I put the two buckets in front of Long Xiaoman, pointed to the mound of dirt and said, "Do you want to splash it directly?" ”
Long Xiaoman shook his head, and was about to say something, when his face suddenly changed, and he pointed to the bucket and said, "How did you get the water?" ”
I don't know why she reacted so much, and wondered, "There's a rope on the well, just put it down......"
As I spoke, I suddenly paused, and then I thought of something particularly wrong!
These two buckets are the kind of plastic buckets that are easy to see on the market, but this is the ancient city of Loulan more than 2,000 years ago, where did the plastic buckets come from at that time!
And the style of these two plastic buckets is also similar to the modern one, as well as the rope hanging on the ancient well, now in retrospect, it seems to be a mountaineering rope, how could these modern things appear in the ancient city of Loulan more than 2,000 years ago?
Long Xiaoman looked at the two plastic buckets that should never have appeared, "Someone has been staring at us in the dark. ”
I looked around vigilantly, and instead of being grateful that the "man" had prepared a plastic bucket and rope for me, it was an unspoken horror.
Since that "person" has prepared these things, it means that our every move is under its surveillance, and we even know what we are going to do in advance, but after being here for so long, Long Xiaoman and I didn't notice each other's existence at all.
"The torches that are lit, the plastic buckets, these must have been made by the same person." Long Xiaoman said lightly, "But, what is the purpose of their doing this, is it just to help us in secret?" ”
I sighed softly and said, "Don't care about these things for now, no matter who is secretly staring at us, there will always be a purpose, if it is just to help us secretly, it would be the best, but if it has any bad intentions, we can only take one step at a time, the matter has come to this, we have to do things first, open the door first, and see what secrets are hidden inside!" ”
With that, I grabbed the bucket and prepared to throw it at the mound.
"What are you doing!" Long Xiaoman suddenly stopped me.
"Didn't you say you could soak it with a blister?" I looked at Long Xiaoman suspiciously.
Long Xiaoman frowned and said, "These two buckets of water are not for you to splash, but for you to drink." ”
"Give me a drink?" I wondered why I could drink water for no reason, and although I was a little thirsty, I couldn't drink both buckets of water.
"Although this mound of sealed soil is strong, it can be dissolved with vinegar, and there is no vinegar here, so it can only be replaced with urine." Long Xiaoman said.
I hurriedly said, "Pee is urine, why do you need so much water?" ”
Long Xiaoman glanced at me, "Do you think that such a big mound, if you don't drink the water, how much can you urinate?" ”
I was stunned, looked at the two large buckets full of water, gritted my teeth and said, "That's okay, let's have a bucket for each person!" ”
"No, both barrels are yours!"
"Why? Women's urine can't be done? I asked.
"Yes, yes, but ......" Long Xiaoman looked a little embarrassed.
"But what is it, you think I'm a toad, I have to die if I drink such two buckets of water!" I patted my stomach, "Don't ink, one bucket per person, hurry up!" ”
Long Xiaoman's face turned red, and he suddenly glared at me and said, "Do you want me to squat on the mound of sealed soil to urinate?" ”