readx; Chapter 479: The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Ancient Kingdom of Lou Nan (I)

However, at this time, I completely abandoned this unrealistic idea, and like everyone else, I carried heavy luggage and walked with heavy steps, and struggled through the desert. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The weather in May is not too hot in Xinjiang, and it is even a little cold, but the environment in the desert is different. Facing the sun, carrying luggage, and without any shelter, we didn't walk long before we were sweating and panting. Looking back, looking at the long footprints left on the ground, calculate, we have left the "Bald Head Ridge" for almost an hour, at this time I already feel a little tired, I am like this, I can imagine that Professor Meizi and a few people are even more uncomfortable.

Lop Nur belongs to the desert area, although it is deserted, but there is not much desert terrain, but we are now surrounded by desert. The professor told us that our current location should be at the junction of Lop Nur and the Kumtag Desert, because this place has been mysterious since ancient times, and no one has ever walked out of it, and it is reasonable to say that the "Ocean of Death" is located here.

I've always been puzzled, the professor just said: someone once found the ruins of Loulan in the "Sea of Death", but he didn't say where they were found, the "Ocean of Death" is so big, it is definitely not a way to go so blindly.

Meizi seemed to see my concerns, and she told me that the Loulan ruins found in the "Dead Ocean" were located in the northeast of the "Dead Ocean", and the coordinates were about 90°E and 38°N. There are no navigation instruments, but we can go wrong as long as we keep heading northeast.

As soon as she said this, I finally put my mind at ease, in fact, if I think about it carefully, I should know that the professors must know the location of the Loulan ruins, otherwise it is obviously unrealistic to blindly search in this vast sea of sand. But I have doubts, since all the electronic instrument navigators are not usable in the "Sea of Death", where does the coordinate of 90° north latitude come from?

For this reason, I asked Meizi again, and Meizi only told me that this coordinate was marked by the person who had found the ruins of Loulan in the "Sea of Death", and that person had been walking in the northeast direction after leaving the "Bald Head Ridge", although the navigator could not be used in the "Sea of Death", but he finally estimated this coordinate according to the direction, distance and time he walked, and the error radius would not exceed 500 meters.

I was a little unsure, and when I asked Meizi who that person was, she refused to say, just asked me not to ask so much, and it was useless to know.

I understand Meizi's character, if she refuses to say it, no matter how hard you try. I can't help it, I wanted to ask again, but after thinking about it, forget it, after all, when the fat man and I first came, we said that we were only responsible for chores and doing the hard work in carrying things, and we were not much interested in those things that involved their "secrets".

After walking for about half an hour, we came to the foot of a sand dune, and the professor could not walk anymore due to his physical exhaustion, so at Lisa's suggestion, the group stopped to rest in the shade of the dune.

I took out the drink from my bag and took a few big sips, the weather was too hot, and I sweated too much, so everyone had no appetite, just a thirst-quenching energy drink.

Speaking of this energy drink, we also have to thank Wang Lin, this guy seems to be afraid of dying of thirst, not a lot of food, but these energy drinks bring a lot, this drink can not only replenish the energy lost by the human body, but more importantly, it is very thirst-quenching, talk about the mint flavor, as long as you drink a sip, you can solve the problem of thirst. Although he doesn't like Wang Lin very much, but sometimes, what he does is still praised and affirmed by this, the fly in the ointment is that this drink is too expensive, a small bottle is nearly a hundred.

"It's good to have money......"

I lay on the ground and sighed. The others were like me, lying or sitting on the floor, probably too tired and not having the heart to talk to each other. However, I took advantage of this moment and moved to the professor's side. The known ruins of the ancient Loulan are located 7 kilometers on the south bank of the Peacock River, but the professor said that the ruins of Loulan have been found in the "Sea of Death", and if they are true, then why are there two Loulan ruins? and they are so far apart.

The professor is not a difficult person to talk to, and I asked him about Loulan's past when I was in the car, but the car was very bumpy at the time, and the professor was too old to bear it, so he didn't speak*. Now, I saw that he had almost finished resting after drinking a few sips of water, so I asked him about the mystery of Loulan's disappearance.

The professor sighed and said with a smile: "Young man, do you know that the reason why the prosperous Loulan in the past will die is very complicated, and most of the scientific community believes that the fall of Loulan is related to the north-south migration of Lop Nur. Lop Nur is the source of life of ancient Loulan, its migration depletes the water source of Loulan, plants die, and eventually leads to a bad climate, Loulan people can only sit and wait for death if they stay here, so they have to give up Loulan City, flee to other places, and the ancient city of Loulan has disappeared in history. This view is recognized by almost all historical archaeologists"

"Isn't that so?" said the fat man, leaning over.

"But what do I say when I heard it was destroyed in war?" I asked rhetorically.

The professor nodded: "There is indeed a view that the ancient city of Loulan was destroyed by war, and this can also be found in the ruins of Loulan that have been discovered. But it is a bit unreasonable to say that it was destroyed by war, although Loulan has a dangerous geographical location and is a necessary place on the ancient Silk Road, but the people of Loulan are not warlike, and the people are not vigorous, so they do not pose a danger to any country, and they give offerings to the surrounding powers every year, so who will destroy him? But in my opinion, the real reason for the disappearance or destruction of Loulan is actually war."

"I agree with the professor. ”

Lisa came to me at some point, said hello to the professor, and said: "Although most historians believe that the disappearance of Loulan is mainly due to natural factors, I think that the cause of Guloulan's real demise is war."

"Hmmm......"

The professor nodded and said: "This is also the purpose of my visit to the "Ocean of Death" this time, although the demise of Loulan is inseparable from the changes of nature, but the real reason for it should be destroyed by war, but I still don't understand why Loulan, such a small country with a small city, a famous clan that has no quarrel with the world, can lead to the disaster of destroying the country?"

"For one person and two things. ”

The guide, Gutise, said suddenly, he was right behind us, and he heard all our conversations, only to see him sigh heavily, his eyes fixed on the sky, as if he was remembering something. I hadn't looked at him closely, but at this moment I noticed that his knife-like face was full of complicated looks, like admiration, like perseverance, like sadness, like anger.

Seeing that we were all looking at him, he grinned and said, "Why, don't you believe it?"

"Hmph......" The fat man snorted disdainfully, saying that this guy only knew how to brag all the way, and he didn't see how capable he was, so for his words, he was basically listening to a story.

However, the professor did not think so, and instead of doubting Gutise's words, he asked him in a "studious" manner:

"Oh, comrade guide, what do you mean by this? What are you talking about one person and two things?"

Gutise smiled slyly, and then said solemnly: "The person I am talking about is our Queen of Loulan - Yazhen. Queen Yazhen has a beautiful appearance that is unmatched in the Western Regions, almost all men have wanted to take her for themselves, and almost all the princes and nobles of almost all countries have proposed to her. ”

"Wait......" Lisa interrupted Gutise, "I heard that the women of Loulan are indeed very beautiful, and there was a female ruler in Loulan in history, but there is no way to verify her surname and what era she is in, how do you know?"

"Well, the legend of Queen Yazhen is still famous in our generation, and some older people call it that, and it doesn't matter what the queen's real name is, because in our place Yazhen means beauty and dignity. ”>