After another few hours, the moon had set in the east, and the sand and dust layer in this small area had been completely cleared, and the exposed stone floor was tightly integrated with the stone forest foundation on the side, as if a layer of stone floor tiles had been laid in this area.

This kind of extravagance symbolizes a huge wealth and population base.

In a small city like Loulan, with a population of less than 10,000, there is simply no such manpower and material resources to build such a magnificent underground mausoleum.

The only point could only be the legendary West Queen Mother clan.

"Professor Huang, what is your overall judgment of this place?"

The sand and dust in the entire central area have been cleaned up, but no tomb crossing has been found, and Jiang Yingxue can only seek some answers from Professor Huang.

At this time, Professor Huang was still prostrate on the ground studying the occasional reliefs on the stone bars, and his interest was suddenly interrupted, and he could only turn his head to take a look.

Seeing that he was the biggest boss here, he could only pat the floating soil on his body and stand up from the stone ground.

"It is recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas that the West Queen Mother has a few ladders and a hoopoe staff, and there are three blue birds in its south, which feeds for the West Queen Mother, in the north of Kunlun.

On top of these stone bars, there are occasionally bird-shaped reliefs, which seem to be the legendary blue birds.

In a general symbolic sense, the blue bird feeds on behalf of the financial power, but the deep meaning of such a pattern appears on the stone bars of the tomb.

Combined with the previous situation of Sima Tian and others entering the tomb along the tunnel, the overall function of this stone forest is not to trap tomb robbers, but to induce living creatures passing by here to enter the central area of the stone forest.

Only this stone forest in the vicinity has a certain shading effect, and this induction hypothesis is also valid.

In other words, the entire stone forest is actually the feeding tool of this underground mausoleum, helping the mausoleum to attract living creatures passing through this area to the entrance of the tomb.

As long as the tomb is opened regularly, desperate creatures will enter the tomb on a regular basis.

A burial chamber is all the more interesting when living creatures are regularly used. ”

With just a few bird-shaped reliefs, Professor Huang was able to parse so much content, and he is worthy of being a great talent in archaeology.

In addition, based on Professor Huang's analysis, the ancient tomb they are currently in is not dangerous in the general sense, but a thorough murderous tomb, a murderous tomb with the basic characteristics of devouring living things!

According to Sima Tian's previous description, there are a large number of hunting mechanisms in the tomb, and their purpose is also to hunt those living creatures that come in.

Could it be that these living creatures were sacrificed to the blood of the owner of the tomb?

In ancient times, there was the killing of animals to obtain blood for the purpose of making alliances or sacrifices, and this phenomenon seems to be very reasonable.

But what was the original purpose of an ancient tomb that had been buried for so long?

You know, this was a lake at the beginning, and it didn't seem like the aquatic fish would get lost in a maze because of some stone pillars.

If it is just to guard against some tomb robbers, then this kind of blood sacrifice is a bit exaggerated. ”

Before the abolition of the burial of the living, it was normal to bury large numbers of slaves, let alone use blood.

I didn't doubt this, but Jiang Yingxue combined the ancient application scenarios of this stone forest to make a comprehensive analysis, and immediately found many contradictions.

"Unless, when this tomb was designed, it was already expected that Lop Nur would dry up in a thousand years.

You must know that the drying up of Lop Nur is entirely due to soil erosion caused by human cultivation and animal husbandry.

Although the original Lop Nur water body is still vast, its area must be shrinking, especially for the last Queen Mother of the West, this shrinking trend must be very obvious.

Once an underwater mausoleum loses the protection of the water body, the difficulty of tomb robbers will be greatly reduced, and the defensive characteristics of this stone forest are revealed.

As for the symbol of the blue bird feeding, it is just a psychological deterrent effect of the mausoleum designer, and its essence is no different from the mausoleum curse such as "the one who opens is dead".

The tomb robbers who can find here are more or less culturally educated, and after understanding the meaning of the bluebird relief, and seeing the tomb that opens automatically, they will also have subjective fear on the psychological level, and will not easily become the blood animal that takes the initiative to eat. ”

An excellent anti-theft design of the mausoleum must take into account the influence of time, and the test of the mausoleum in the future environment should also be taken into account.

Professor Huang interprets the significance of the existence of the stone forest and the bluebird relief from this perspective, which makes sense at the level of reason.

In other words, this stone forest was not used to obtain blood animals for the tomb owner, but only to plant a psychological cue for the tomb robbers.

Afraid of the possibility of blood sacrifices for the blue bird to eat, the tomb robbers took the initiative to retreat, which was naturally the best.

If you encounter the kind of stunned young man who is not afraid of death, this kind of psychological suggestion has also been planted, and with the heavy mechanisms in the mausoleum, it can also make the tomb robbers disillusion the last will to survive in the case of heavy casualties.

In this way, tomb robbers will not destroy more tomb facilities meaninglessly because of their strong desire to survive.

"In this way, the mechanism that opened automatically in this tomb was opened automatically after the water dried up.

Judging from the degree of wear and tear of these stone bars, they do not look like they are often opened and closed.

Or, it is likely that the stone strip covers will be opened in batches according to a certain established pattern.

Even more daringly, the area of the tomb corresponding to each bluebird relief will be different, so that different batches of tomb robbers can be eliminated to a greater extent.

If this is the case, then even if we wait here, it is very likely that we will not be able to follow the trajectory of Sima Tian and them.

In this way, the effective path that Sima Tian and the others fought with their lives before will no longer exist, and we will have to continue to use human lives to fill in the new mechanisms one by one. ”

Based on the discussion between Jiang Yingxue and Professor Huang, Bai Ning's inference is slightly pessimistic.

Not only is the time to enter the Catacombs area uncertain, but even the established passages will be different.

In this way, once they enter the tomb, the follow-up support is equivalent to being cut off.

The environment of the tomb is extremely dangerous, and the back road is completely cut off, so in such a dangerous place, no matter how you look at it, it is a life of death.

"Let's start with these slates.

These granite slabs may have been as hard as iron for the ancients, but in front of modern tools, they are nothing more than a tofu slag project. ”

If it weren't for the fear that the impact would be bad, Jiang Yingxue really wanted to use explosives to blow up these stone slabs.

Glancing at Professor Huang, who continued to be silent, Jiang Yingxue waved her hand and motioned for the rest of the team to go directly.

I don't know if it's because the terrain here is particularly prone to windy and sandy weather, the air that has just been clear for a while once again floats a thin wind and sand, everyone works in the wind and sand all night, the sound of tinkling and knocking, and the roar of the machine is endless.

After more than an hour of equipment erection, the temporary pulley lifting kit was erected.

Under Jiang Yingxue's instructions, the first thing to target was which stone strips were carved with bluebird reliefs.

The drill bits of the drilling machine rub sparks against the granite, which seems to indicate that these stone bars are unusual.

This is very strange, obviously there are reliefs on the stone strips, and its shape is even more angular, how can it be so hard?!

It took several minutes of continuous drilling to leave a small hole half a finger deep in the stone.

"Switch to a more powerful drilling machine."

Bai Ning was also a little surprised at this time, and he was also a little curious about the ancient craftsmanship of these stone strips.

If combined with magical technological products such as Pisces Jade Pendant, then this so-called Western Queen Mother clan is likely to retain some high-tech products of the Fourth Civilization.

The Fourth Civilization was eventually destroyed by the Great Flood, and under the drive of the Great Flood of Annihilation, the last civilization of the Fourth Civilization would run to the Tibet region, the roof of the world, which was a possibility that had been identified before.

In this way, it is normal for some of them to flow to the Kunlun Mountain area.

Those who are displaced in the Kunlun Mountains region may not even be normal humans, and they are likely to be some genetic products of the Fourth Civilization.

Therefore, the deified Western Queen Mother clan has non-humanoid characteristics such as tiger teeth and leopard tail in the basic humanoid state.

Some of the physical qualities themselves are half-human and half-beast existences, coupled with the legacy of the Fourth Civilization technology in their hands, it seems that there is no problem in building such a beautiful mausoleum.

"These things are clearly not something that a group of people with stone weapons can cut.

The deification of the Western Queen Mother clan in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is definitely not because of its half-orc characteristics such as tiger teeth and leopard tail.

To be able to replicate the power of living creatures is to meet the basic authority of a god.

In the process of talking about dried fruits, you mentioned that the history of ancient mythology is most likely the history of science and technology left over from the Fourth Civilization.

If the Western Queen Mother clan is a continuation of some human subspecies of the Fourth Civilization, then their demise is very strange.

Why did a race that had escaped the catastrophe of the destruction of the Fourth Civilization suddenly disappear in the years of stability?

It stands to reason that with their high-end technology that can replicate people, they can have as many slaves as they want, and how can they suddenly perish. ”

Based on the previous exploration of the ancient ruins of Tunguska, as well as the subsequent discussion with Bai Ning, Jiang Yingxue was not very surprised by the specifications of this Western Queen Mother Mausoleum, but was very curious about the reason why the Western Queen Mother clan finally disappeared in the long river of history.

"The inheritance of high-end technology requires an established population base, and if a sound industrial system cannot be established, then the industrial pearl formed by the convergence of various basic industries cannot be condensed.

Even if the Western Queen Mother clan was lucky enough to get a batch of high-tech products inherited from the Fourth Civilization, they would not have enough population to pass them on.

In addition to demographic factors, the energy base is also very important.

Not to mention what the energy base of the replicants is, once the energy reserves of the Western Queen Mother clan are exhausted, the high-end technology they are proud of will become a pile of scrap metal.

At that time, the ruling foundation of the Western Queen Mother clan will be shaken, and under the brutal rebellion, any civilization will be wiped out in an instant. ”

The answer given by Bai Ning made Jiang Yingxue think deeply, as the actual controller of a consortium, she naturally knew the importance of talents.