Chapter 4: The Temple of the Sun
Obviously, this is a bell tower, because there is a bell on the ground that is more than one person high.
Ke Mingde saw it from a distance and walked over with a quickened pace.
This is a square stone pavilion, four stone pillars of one person hugging the thickness of the four corners of the spire, the four corners fly up, respectively carved four strange beasts, the top of the double horns, the chin has a beard, the neck has a mane, the body is like a horse, as a galloping shape.
The whole body of the pavilion is made of stone, white and delicate, showing a hazy brilliance in the moonlight, and the four pillars are carved with vine-like patterns, simple and generous, very beautiful.
Ke Mingde put down his backpack and took out a flashlight to illuminate these patterns, only to find that there were still many patterns that had been worn out by the wind and sand, and he could barely see them clearly with the help of the light.
He walked over to the bell and took a closer look. The bell is buckled on the ground, the color is black and blue, there are many patterns engraved on it, the upper part is engraved with four circles, facing the four directions of the south, east and west, the circle is surrounded by radial lines, inside is a roughly human-shaped outline, the villains in the four circles are different, some have horns, some have wings. Kommad guessed that the motifs were the sun.
Under the circle, there are painted patterns of mountains, rivers, birds and animals, as well as people taming cattle and horses, using weapons, and using tools to plow.
Ke Mingde has not studied this, but according to the pattern on the bell, it can be seen that there was once human civilization here, there were mountains and water, vegetation and animals, human civilization has developed to the point of domesticating livestock and developing agriculture, and this bell is so huge, indicating that the smelting technology and productivity of civilization here have reached a very high level.
He crouched down and peeled off the sand that buried the bottom of the bell.
The bell is about ten centimeters buried, and at the bottom is engraved a circle of symbols, each the size of an egg. He took all the sand around the bell and counted them, and there were 166 such symbols, and they were all different, which should be their words.
The sand was peeled away, revealing the floor below, also stony, but different from the pillars, grayish in color.
Ke Mingde took a closer look at the stone pavilion and found something strange in one corner, peeling off the sand to reveal a square plank.
I don't know how many years have passed, the wooden board has decayed, probably due to the dryness of the environment, the wooden board is still generally intact, take out the knife, a little force, inserted into the rotten wood. After a few pounds, he made a hole, he put his hand in it, and with a great effort, the plank was lifted, revealing a hole one meter square, which was pitch black inside, and the fine sand around him slid down.
Ke Mingde illuminated it with a lamp, and inside the cave was a stone staircase that led to a stone house, and from one side of the staircase there was a standing cabinet, half buried in the sand.
He observed for a while, and found no danger, so he descended the stone steps, holding a flashlight in one hand and a fruit knife in the other.
There are 12 steps, and the bottom one is already covered with sand, and you can see that there are small windows on the walls in the east, south, and west directions, and it is from here that the sand pours in.
Ke Mingde walked down the stone steps, looked back, and saw a dark shadow under the stairs, and the light of the flashlight immediately shone over, and it was a pile of skeletons!
Shocked into a cold sweat!
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, only to feel the clatter at the eardrums, Ke Mingde settled down and walked over slowly.
It was the corpse of two people, the flesh shrunk into a ball, barely wrapped around the bones, the clothes were mostly intact, and the black holes in the skulls made people shudder.
Sure that there was no danger, Ke Mingde did not move them, and turned his gaze away, and in the middle of the room was a wooden table, on which there were four bowls falling together, and some things made of fabric, all in one place, and it was impossible to tell what they were.
He picked up a bowl and the table made a "squeak" sound.
Blowing off the ashes from the bowl, he put it back again, an ordinary porcelain bowl with a notch in it.
There was a wooden cabinet on the south side, and as soon as he exerted his strength, the door was torn down, and a cloud of dust was raised. There were a lot of things in the cabinet, the most conspicuous of which were the four bows that hung on, the bows were not wound, but they could be seen to be very meticulous, but unfortunately they could not compete with the power of time, and Ke Mingde broke them effortlessly. There was a pile of spearheads piled up under the bow, made of metal, and next to them were several long swords, and Ke Mingde picked one up.
The skin-tanned scabbard had rotted, and as soon as he picked it up, it fell off, leaking out of the blade and dulling it. The blade of the sword is about seventy centimeters long, the handle is one meter long and four centimeters wide, the spine is about five millimeters thick, the wooden grip has no handguards and counterweights, and the grip is broken with a few swings.
Throwing his sword aside, he looked at everything else, all of which were rotten and tattered, and finally returned to the two skeletons.
The costume worn by the skeleton was no longer recognizable, and had turned a dull grayish-brown color, and at the slightest touch, it turned into powder, along with the bones.
Ke Mingde searched carefully, and found more than ten copper coins and four silver coins in the corpses, all slightly larger than a one-yuan coin, less than five millimeters thick, one side engraved with the sun, and the other side engraved with the head of a man with a crown on his head, very heavy. In addition, there are several bronze keys with a middle finger length, and a silver ring with a round gemstone the size of a soybean, which still shines brightly.
Ke Mingde put these things in his pocket and saluted the corpse:
"The two of you, when you first arrived, you touched your body, and I hope you will forgive me, and you will be buried later!"
Ke Mingde didn't really believe in these gods and ghosts, but the deceased was big, and he could be regarded as seeking psychological comfort, so he said a few words, and he didn't know if even if there were ghosts, I didn't know if he could understand the Chinese he spoke.
Turning around to the entrance of the next floor, I saw that there were still four steps exposed to the air, and the rest of the steps had been completely covered by yellow sand.
"Would you like to scan it?"
He hesitated a little and looked at the super printer, which only had 0.9 energy.
"Scan it and see, it doesn't take much energy anyway, it only costs 0.1 energy to scan a building with more than 20 floors, just simply scan it......"
The scanning function of the super printer is divided into two levels, scan and simple scan.
Scanning an object, all the parameters of the object will be recorded in the super printer (shape, quality, attributes, etc.), and it can be printed with energy, while simple scanning is like seeing with the eyes, and can only know the general shape and color, and can not obtain more detailed information, let alone print, of course, it consumes much less energy than scanning.
Ke Mingde once scanned a 20-story residential building, which consumed only 0.1 energy, in fact, he only scanned the building itself, and the contents were only simple scans, and the scanned objects could not be more than about 100 meters away from themselves, while a simple scan could "see" things within a radius of about 3 kilometers.
Ke Mingde sat on the steps, closed his eyes, and the ancient buildings buried under the yellow sand came to his mind.
There are three more floors below, more and more corpses, some dressed in metal armor, the guards of the bell tower, and the outside is a street paved with stone bricks, and the buildings on both sides are of different shapes, unified styles, perfect drainage facilities, the remains of horse-drawn carriages, and all kinds of corpses appear in front of you......
A round group of palaces jumped out, twelve palaces formed a ring, and it was surprising that they were all located on a circular river, and stone pillars rose from the ground to support this palace, and the river surrounded a piece of land, and there were four palaces in front and back, and the roofs were even decorated with gold, but all this was not as shocking as the one in the middle, tall and majestic, and indescribable.
In the center of the temple stands a golden statue, a tall man sitting on a throne with a scepter in his hand and an eagle on the back of his chair.
Just as Ke Mingde was carefully admiring this ingenious sculpture, a voice as thick as a bell came into his mind!
"Who is it...... disturbed my slumbering ......"