Chapter 0003: Dreaming of the Ancients
He Tian and Yu Die were originally two college students who graduated from art colleges, and their graduation was only two years. Suffering from not finding a suitable company to sign a contract, and in order to pass the time, with the expedition team initiated by some students to enter the ancient country of Loulan in the Western Regions, to explore the defeated ancient country and the Lop Nur that disappeared for no reason, this trip is undoubtedly lonely and boring, because He Tian and Yu Die have been in a state of emotional breakup, but the captain of the expedition team divided him into two groups.
After entering the ancient kingdom of Loulan in the Western Regions, they began to use the most sophisticated modern instruments to search for ancient books in the old site, that is, the things left by the ancients. There were a total of 28 students in the expedition, of which 17 were graduates of art schools and 9 were professional archaeology graduate students, who had just stepped out of the threshold of university. No job has been found.
Suddenly, someone screamed in a dilapidated corner, but the scream was due to the screaming of finding an ancient book.
"Come and see, what have I found?"
"What did you find? screaming so excitedly!" the crowd followed the voice.
"Ancient oracles. As he spoke, he eagerly opened the scroll made of silk that looked tattered and old. When I opened it, I looked depressed.
"What's wrong? What do you see?"
"I don't recognize these words, these words seem to be Zhong Dingwen, very complicated, I heard my grandmother say, this is left by gods in ancient times, and there was a curse on it. His face began to turn pale, and his mind kept thinking of the tragic death of the curse in his body, or the agony, or the monstrosity that his grandmother had said had three eyes on its head and six hands on its back. He threw the ancient book on the ground and turned to the side of the crowd, hoping to suppress the so-called oracle curse with the help of his popularity.
"Is it so evil?" He Tian walked over with Yudie after speaking, and the two of them almost reached out together to pick up the ancient book. Both were too careless to see sharp objects on either side of the oracle. He Tian shot relatively quickly, grabbed the oracle first, and Yu Die was not to be outdone, stretching out his slender white little hand and grabbing it. The two of them were also anxious for a while, and neither of them wanted the other party to see what was written on the oracle first?
"Feather Butterfly, He Tian, your hands are bleeding. β
He Tian heard the voice and looked down, Yu Die's hand and his hand were cut when he snatched this ancient book just now, Yu Die's seemed to be more serious, maybe he was too quick to shoot just now, and his fingers were cut by sharp weapons and other things on the ground.
The two stared at each other for less than half a minute, and He Tian let go first. He looked disappointedly at the beautiful and noble, transcendent and jade-like feather butterfly, and let go of his hand.
"He Tian, I don't recognize these words, you can see what these pictures and texts mean. He Tian was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by a cry from Yudie. He had long lost hope in his heart, but at this time, he softened his heart again when he heard the voice that had occupied half of his youth.
"I'll see. He Tian turned around and came back to Yu Die.
Feather Butterfly unfolded all the ancient books and placed them on a relatively wide ground, and waved her hand to the classmates who were a little scared by the influence of that classmate in the distance: "You guys also come and take a look, maybe you can recognize these words." β
At his shout, those people stepped forward and looked at the people around them as they walked, fearing that they would suddenly run away and leave them alone. At this moment, the sky in the distance was already black and oppressive, accompanied by the shocking lightning. There is no doubt that this is a sign of impending rain. Even though they brought tents, they set them up far, far away from this ancient land. Even though they are readers, they have to believe in everything, because there are some things that science cannot explain. Just like a scientist named Pengamu in our country, it was in Lop Nur not far from this barren country that he disappeared, this is a horrific event, who hears that a big living person disappeared in the middle of the day for no reason, will not feel frightened and creepy?
After He Tian looked carefully at several Zhong Ding Wenzai who were full of mystery, he was stunned, his eyes were wide, and the hairs on his body stood up, which was really unbelievable.
According to the "Historical Records: The Biography of the Xiongnu", Guloulan appeared in history in 176 BC. According to the "Historical Records: The Biography of Dawan Lie", Zhang Qian, the pioneer of China's Silk Road, saw people living in Guloulan between 138 BC and 126 AD, but that was thousands of years ago, and there is no detailed record in this aspect in the "Historical Records".
Today, the ancient kingdom of Loulan has disappeared for thousands of years. Even if science and technology are so advanced now, it is still impossible to solve this amazing mystery. Scientists have found pottery artifacts dating back four to five thousand years in this ruin. If it is pushed layer by layer according to history, it is still a mystery who built Loulan.
Everyone looked at He Tian's surprised expression, and urged a little anxiously: "He Tian, tell me quickly, what is written on it?"
"It says above that this Loulan Kingdom was built in the 720th year of Heaven and Earth and was built by Miluo Patriarch, the founder of the Heaven Tribe. β
"What? This is too ridiculous, although it is said that this ancient Loulan is still an unsolved mystery, but this statement is too naΓ―ve, right?" The few people who graduated from archaeology strode towards this ancient and mysterious ancient book on the ground in disbelief. I want to see for myself if what He Tian said is true.
When they walked into this remaining and unknown ancient book, they saw Zhong Dingwen on it, and they were dumbfounded and stood in place.
"Hey, Zhang Hai, where did you see this ancient book?"
"I saw it from that dilapidated altar, I thought it was a treasure map, so I pulled it out, who knew that this thing was actually a bad thing!" Zhang Hai replied to He Tian with his somewhat trembling hand and a finger pointed at the ruined ancient altar.
"He Tian, look, the blood stains on your hands are slowly disappearing on this ancient book, you see. β
The blood dripping from his fingers, after dripping on this mysterious ancient book, is really slowly disappearing, an archaeologist thought it was flowing to the ground, but after picking it up, there was nothing on the ground? He pressed it hard with his hand, thinking that the blood was sucked into the ancient book, and he didn't want to really press it, when he picked up his finger to look at it, his face became like dead ash.
"Perhaps, this is really a hoodoo, let's get out of this place of right and wrong quickly. After he finished speaking, he got up from the ground and looked at the people present with a solemn expression.
Ten of the twenty-eight of them were boys and eighteen were girls. As soon as they heard his words, those girls who were timid by nature looked at each other, as if there was really a disaster coming.
Just as everyone was about to flee in panic, the ancient books on the ground turned into a cloud of dust and scattered in the air. Seeing this scene, they couldn't control the fear in their hearts, and desperately escaped from the old site of Loulan one by one, running to the tent in the distance. He Tian and Yu Die also left with everyone one after another.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, no one will admit that there are such absurd things happening in this world.
At night, the thunder was rolling and the rain was pouring down, and the barren desert was stirring up the hearts of the faint-hearted, who had all seen today's ancient books, and would not be cursed as the classmate said.
He Tian and Yu Die were more courageous, and when they returned to the back of the tent, they slept on the quilt on the bed made of movable frames. After falling asleep, the two of them dreamed back to ancient times, the era when they could not be found and explored, in the dream realm, it was a world of cultivators. He Tian and Yu Die inexplicably intervened in this tribe and became a member of the tribe.