Chapter 418: The Ancient Kingdom of Mimi
After feeding Yang Lei and drinking water, Chen Ziyang quickly tightened the lid of the kettle, and at the same time found a hidden place to hide the kettle. Now it can be said that the entire convoy has no water, and if others find out that they still have some water here, they will be robbed by others.
After settling everything, Chen Ziyang combined the meaning of the last three sentences of the mantra explained by Instructor Liu to himself and the history of the ancient country, plus his own judgment, to crack the diamond.
"The stars open in the east, and the moon travels thousands of miles to the west." This sentence can be said to be Instructor Liu's reliance on bringing the convoy to this place, although Instructor Liu explained a lot, but Chen Ziyang couldn't remember so much knowledge about the stars, but among the ten words of this sentence, in addition to the two words around the moon, the other eight words "Chenxing Qi Dong, thousands of miles to the west" are completely in line with stargazing.
There are not only contrasting stars in this sentence, but also the direction of travel, and Instructor Liu said to Chen Ziyang that there is only one month to open the treasure after the diamond is opened, which is also derived from the word "ring moon" in this sentence. According to Instructor Liu, Huanyue refers to the whole month of a lunar month, but Chen Ziyang feels that it is very likely that Instructor Liu's understanding is wrong.
According to Instructor Liu's explanation, the word Huanyue should not be placed in this sentence, but in a previous sentence, if Huanyue really refers to the time limit, this sentence is too unsmooth.
"The first line of the star is a hundred miles of the sky." Even Instructor Liu doesn't know what this sentence means, because in the astrological terminology, there is no such word as Bingxing, although there is a saying about Tian Bingxing in the eight characters, but it is obviously inappropriate to use Tian Bingxing to compare the two words Bingxing.
The reason why he brought the convoy to this place is because it is the intersection of the direction implied by the mantra in the previous sentence and the direction of the water flowing from the diamond, plus the terrain here is very special, so Instructor Liu feels that the ruins of the ancient country should be here.
According to his explanation, the sword points to the sky for a hundred miles, which refers to the range of a hundred miles. This desert is surrounded by tall sand dunes, and the area enclosed by these sand dunes is almost a hundred miles, but Chen Ziyang felt that Instructor Liu's explanation was too far-fetched, and there were too many loopholes.
According to Instructor Liu's explanation, the four words of sword pointing to the sky would not be used at all, and it would not make sense that a hundred miles is a desert area. The tall sand dunes near here can be moved under the blowing of the wind and sand, and the speed of movement is also very fast, the ancient country has a history of one or two thousand years now, these sand dunes do not know how far they have moved, and it is even possible that in the period of the ancient country, this is not a desert.
"The covenant of the top three, everything is restarted." This sentence is the basis for Instructor Liu to think that the treasure key of the ancient country, that is, the diamond that has now turned blood-red is opened once every two hundred years, as for whether this is the case, Chen Ziyang feels that it doesn't matter, because this sentence is not helpful at all to find the location of the treasure of the ancient country and reveal the mystery of the blood-colored diamond.
It can be said that Instructor Liu was very dissatisfied with the explanation of these three sentences, and he vaguely felt that there were many other implicit meanings in these three sentences that had not been understood.
The only one who has feelings for these words is Yang Lei, and this kid doesn't know where he heard the phrase "Bingxing Line", but he is now in a coma, and he can't count on it at all.
However, although these three mantras did not play a role, Chen Ziyang got some knowledge about this ancient country from Instructor Liu, and after the clues of this ancient country were combined with his previous experience and Lao Lu's experience, Chen Ziyang judged a rough idea, he felt that his previous thoughts were correct, and this diamond should indeed be able to conjure a lot of water.
According to Instructor Liu, the ancient country they were looking for was called the Ancient Kingdom of Sumi. It is one of the 36 countries of the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty, and the historical records record that the location of the ancient kingdom is probably in the eastern part of today's Hotan region of Xinjiang, which is consistent with the position of everyone today.
However, there are very few information about the ancient kingdom of Sumi that can be found through various methods, and there are only three of them: one is that the ancient country is the southern entrance of the Silk Road, the second is that the ancient country of Sumi is the place where Buddhism was first transmitted, and the third is that the ancient country of Sumi is the ancient country of the oasis with the most powerful military force among the 36 countries in the Western Regions.
Originally, Instructor Liu didn't know anything about which ancient country he was looking for, so he checked all the information of the ancient country, and corresponded to the "Oasis Ancient Country" of the Ancient Country and the "Green Country" in the formula, which confirmed his judgment.
According to Instructor Liu's analysis, it is precisely because of the unique geographical location of this ancient country that this ancient country can sit on a treasure. If his inference is correct, this ancient kingdom is located on the Silk Road, at the junction of the Central Plains and the Western Regions. That's why Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains from here.
And this ancient country is likely to be located on an oasis in the middle of the desert, and caravans traveling along the Silk Road will come here to replenish water, which also makes this ancient country gradually develop. And the number of people in this ancient country should be quite large, otherwise it would not be said that it has the largest number of troops.
"Is the country of green ......" Chen Ziyang felt that Instructor Liu's analysis was very correct, what is the most precious thing in the desert? It's water. Where there is water, only people in the desert can survive, so the people living in the desert gradually gathered in the oasis and settled down, and this ancient country was formed, plus this ancient country happened to be on the Silk Road, and there was enough water to replenish the caravans, so this ancient country developed and grew.
However, there is one thing that Chen Ziyang feels that Instructor Liu has not analyzed, that is, in fact, this ancient country is not located on any oasis at all, but this oasis in the desert was created by the people of this ancient country themselves.
Since that diamond can conjure a large amount of water out of thin air, in the desert, this diamond is equivalent to a peerless treasure, and its value is even more than the sum of all the wealth of an ancient desert country combined.
Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang was even more determined in his thoughts, as long as he completely cracked the secret of this diamond, he would definitely be able to conjure water.
After glancing at Yang Lei lying beside him, Chen Ziyang put all his mind on studying this diamond. Thus passed the fourth day after the water was cut off.
On the fifth day of the water break, Chen Ziyang still made no progress. The same is true for Instructor Liu, two vehicles sent out to find water sources returned, but they did not find water sources. There was no news from the water supply convoy led by Yu Yoshioka, and it was not known whether they were blocked by the sandstorm or if the convoy had been destroyed in the sandstorm.
When Chen Ziyang was studying this diamond, he heard a noise outside from time to time, and through the quarrels of these people, Chen Ziyang roughly judged that someone seemed to be snatching the water from someone else's hand, and it seemed that the people in the convoy had gradually lost their minds.
On the night of the fifth day of the water break, Chen Ziyang heard a gunshot, but he didn't know what was happening. Chen Ziyang, who hadn't drunk water for two days, felt that his physical strength had dropped very much, but he still didn't drink the water in the kettle, but poured all the rest of the water into Yang Lei's mouth.
On the morning of the sixth day of the water break, Chen Ziyang couldn't get up because of severe dehydration, so he had to drag his tired body to lie on the sheepskin and continue to study carefully with some last of his energy. Chen Ziyang knew that if he didn't make any progress, today was likely to be the last day of his and Yang Lei's lives.
On the morning of that day, Instructor Liu walked into the carriage where Chen Ziyang was. Chen Ziyang saw that Instructor Liu was also dying, and his shriveled lips were even more shriveled than his own.
"The hearts of the people are scattered, I can't control the convoy, yesterday someone killed someone, and several other people rushed up and drank all the blood of the person who was killed. There are also quite a few people who have left in their cars in the past few days, and there is really nothing I can do. ”
Now Chen Ziyang is a little confused, he really doesn't understand who put the water in the convoy away, if these people are here to save themselves, why haven't they come yet? Now the whole convoy is in disarray, and it only takes a healthy person with a gun to pack them all up.
But so far, there has been no one to rescue him, Chen Ziyang felt that it was very likely that he had misjudged before, or Yang Lei had misunderstood, and it was very likely that the person who released the water was the enemy of Instructor Liu and others, or some other force planted in the convoy.
After throwing down a quarter of a shriveled apple, Instructor Liu dragged his tired body away, enduring the swelling of his throat and the chapped lips, Chen Ziyang ate the quarter of an apple into his stomach, now is not the time to be hypocritical, he only has one day at most to save his and Yang Lei's lives.
Not long after Instructor Liu left, Chen Ziyang heard gunshots outside one after another. He couldn't imagine the scene outside the carriage, and it was estimated that the current convoy was like purgatory on earth.
At dusk, someone lifted the canvas of Chen Ziyang's carriage. Chen Ziyang, who was in a daze, saw that there seemed to be a trace of blood hanging from the corner of the mouth of the person who lifted the canvas.
After seeing the situation of Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei, the person who lifted the canvas left without entering the carriage. The situation is obvious, there is no water in the carriage where Chen Ziyang is, otherwise, the two of them will not be so virtuous.
"It doesn't matter anymore, it may really be providential." Chen Ziyang thought in his heart that this diamond still had no reaction to his various methods, and he didn't have the strength to continue researching, lying in the carriage, he hoped that he would not be killed and drink up the blood in his body.
A few hours passed, and Chen Ziyang lay there, staring at the stars through the lifted canvas, waiting for his own death.
The stars in the sky were twinkling, and from Chen Ziyang's point of view, he couldn't see the Big Dipper, the only thing he could see was the familiar constellation of Orion, the three stars in the middle of the constellation looked so conspicuous.
"The line of Bingxing is a hundred miles of the sky. The covenant of the top three, everything is restarted. Bingxing, the top three ......" Chen Ziyang's eyes widened suddenly, he finally knew where he had seen the sentence that Yang Lei said before, when the two of them watched the movie Transformers together.
In the second part of Transformers, the three stars of the constellation Orion point straight to a pyramid, pointing in the direction of those looking for the pyramid, which was the three-star line at the time.
Because the eight words of the first line of the third star and the covenant of the third class are next to each other, so when Yang Lei looked at these two sentences, he regarded the first line of the third star as the first line of the three stars, and the word C happened to be the third word in A, B, C, D, and the person who translated this sentence probably deliberately replaced the three words with the word C in order to avoid using the same word at the beginning of the poem.
The sentence of the first line of the star should refer to the three stars in the center of Orion, thinking about this, Chen Ziyang also understood the meaning of the ring moon, this ring moon does not refer to the time of a month, but refers to the moon, refers to the night!
He finally realized that the reason why he had been unable to activate the diamond was because of the lack of these mediums. Several of my previous attempts were made in the carriage, and there was no starlight or moonlight here, so the diamond did not react.
This is really funny, the result that I have been looking for a long time has actually known it, but now I have figured it out. But it shouldn't be too late.
Originally, Chen Ziyang had no strength, but after figuring out all this, Chen Ziyang's potential exploded. He grabbed the edge of the carriage with his right hand, and used all his strength to pull his body, and his heavy body slowly moved forward under the drive of his right hand, and finally, Chen Ziyang climbed out of the carriage and fell on the yellow sand.
After taking out the blood-colored diamond and placing it on the sand, Chen Ziyang realized that he didn't even have the strength to take out a knife and cut a wound on his body. Then he opened his mouth suddenly, and his lips, which had been glued together and shriveled together, suddenly parted.
A few drops of blood dripped from Chen Ziyang's lips and dripped onto the blood-colored diamond, and under the starlight and moonlight, the blood-colored diamond looked much more crystal clear than usual.
Starlight, blood, sand, these three elements finally gathered together, and at the same time converged on this diamond, when Chen Ziyang's blood dripped on the diamond, this blood-colored diamond that had been silent for a long time suddenly emitted a colorful brilliance again, and this time the light emitted by the diamond was much stronger than any previous time, and even Chen Ziyang couldn't open his eyes.
The clear water finally gushed out of the diamond, and seeing these life-saving waters, Chen Ziyang knew that he had made the right bet.
More and more water gushes out of the diamonds, and the speed of the water gushes out faster and faster, and in an instant, the water gathers into a small stream that flows in one direction.
(End of chapter)