P.S. A wave of collectibles, fresh flowers.
Everyone walked around and looked around. There were stone walls on all sides. After knocking a few times, it was obvious that they were solid. There would not be any other space behind them.
Qin Shi deliberately lifted the stone slab under his feet. Realizing that there was something wrong with the floor of the stone chamber, he pushed away the broken bones on the ground, revealing a large stone slab with embossed on both ends.
He called Hu Bayi and Sa Dipeng to help pull up the stone slab. Seeing that his whole body was trembling, he couldn't help but laugh. He told him to go back the way he came so that he wouldn't wet his pants.
Sa Dipeng seemed to have been granted amnesty and ran back in a hurry. Professor Chen was angry and amused.
"Sigh, this child is too timid. He's not suitable for archaeology.”
Hu Bayi and Brother Long worked together to pull open the stone slab on the ground. Then, they threw in a cold firework to illuminate the bottom. They saw a tomb chamber that was about the same size as the one above. In the middle was a square coffin. It was too different from the coffin in the mainland. There were no decorative patterns, and it was not rectangular. It was square, more like a big box.
I've never seen this kind of tomb and coffin before, not even in the museum in my previous life. It's even more unbelievable than in movies and dramas. Even with Professor Chen's knowledge, he couldn't figure out what was going on.
This was probably a long-lost form of ancient national burial. It was largely influenced by the Han culture, but it was made to be specious and added with many of its own cultures. It was really rare.
At this moment, Hao Aiguo arrived with Chu Jian. When he saw the scene, he was so excited that his eyes lit up. He put on a gas mask and was the first to jump down. He looked here and there, and the back of his head blossomed with joy.
Everyone went down to the tomb on the ground floor. When they looked around, they couldn't help but exclaim. The four walls of the tomb were filled with exquisite and colorful murals.
Professor Chen saw one of them and was extremely excited.
"This…the things recorded in this painting are related to Jingjue Country.”
What Qin Shi and Hu Bayi wanted to see the most were valuable funerary objects. This coffin was not small, and there might be something good inside. Although they couldn't take it away as a professor, they could still open their eyes. I now feel that the tomb of a noble is more luxurious than the general's tomb in Black Wind Mouth.
However, Professor Chen was looking at the murals in the tomb and didn't pay attention to the coffin in the middle. He could only wait patiently and listen to Professor Chen's comments on the murals.
The first few paintings showed that the tomb owner was the prince of Gumo when he was alive. Gumo was a vassal state of Jingjue and was bullied. Every year, they offered a large number of treasures, cattle, sheep, and slaves. He once went to the Queen of Jingjue to ask for freedom for his subjects. He went three times in a row but did not see the Queen.
This painting probably depicted his unwillingness. The brave prince was the incarnation of the Sun God of War. He sneaked into Jingjue alone to assassinate the evil queen, only to discover a big secret.
As he listened, he was also attracted by the professor's words. Qin Shi was very curious about what secret it was. He had never seen it in movies and dramas in his previous life. She walked over to Shirley Yang and the others to listen to the professor's explanation.
Professor Chen walked to the next mural and looked at it carefully for a long time.
"This meaning is very strange. Look at the prince hiding in a corner and spying. Queen Jingjue's face was covered in a veil in all the murals. In this painting, only the queen's back was visible. She lifted the veil with one hand, and the person opposite her, who seemed to be a slave, turned into a shadow... and disappeared?”
Qin Shi was confused and was about to ask more when Shirley Yang said,"
"This queen is a…monster."
"Monster?"
Professor Chen was slightly stunned when he heard that. Then, he said to Shirley,
"Interesting. Tell me what you think.”
Shirley pointed at the mural and said,"
"The painter who painted this mural is very skilled. The composition is gorgeous and vivid. It narrates the major events of the Gumo Kingdom's prince's life. Although there are no written annotations, the characteristics are very distinct.”
Qin Shi listened to her analysis of the mural as he carefully observed it. Indeed, as she had said, the characters, costumes, buildings, and expressions in the mural were all vivid. If one had some understanding of the culture of the Western Regions, they could roughly grasp the background of the events recorded in the painting through this information.
This was getting more and more interesting.
Shirley Yang continued,
"Professor, the mural you mentioned just now is the most difficult to understand among all the murals. The queen in the painting removed the veil that had been covering her face all this time, and the figure opposite her became a dotted line. All the figures in the murals were realistic. Only the person who saw the Queen's face became a dotted line, and only a faint outline was drawn. From this only outline, we could not see the identity of this person. We could only speculate that this dotted line was a slave or an assassin, an enemy that the Queen wanted to get rid of.”
Hu Bayi couldn't help but ask,"
"Miss Yang, you mean…the person in the painting disappeared after seeing the Queen's face?”
Shirley Yang said,
"Mr. Hu is pretty much right. If I were to use my words to explain it, I would say that the Queen's eyes looked at this person and this person disappeared.”
Hu Bayi shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"A living person? He's gone with just a glance? Disappeared? This…this is too…unbelievable. To be honest, it's a little difficult for me to understand.”
Professor Chen seemed to understand what Shirley Yang meant and signaled for her to continue.
Shirley Yang said,
"Although I'm just speculating, it's not just a speculation. Xuanzang, an eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty, had written a book that recorded many legends of the ancient Western Regions. Some were myths and legends, while others were true events. One of them was the legend of the Desert Queen. In the depths of the desert, there was a city. In the city lived a race from the underground. They conquered and ruled other small countries around them. Hundreds of years later, the throne passed to a queen. Legend had it that the queen's eyes were the passageway to the underworld. As long as she took a look at her enemies, they would disappear into thin air and never return. Only those who disappeared would know where they went. The Queen adopted a high-handed rule. She wanted all the people in the neighboring countries to worship her as a true god. All those who resisted would be skinned alive and executed. Perhaps her actions angered God, but the Queen suffered from a strange disease and died after a few years.
The slaves were most afraid of the Queen. Once she died, the slaves and the surrounding countries that were bullied by the Queen formed an alliance army and massacred the Queen's capital. The alliance army was prepared to destroy the queen's tomb. At this moment, the sky changed color. The terrifying sandstorm engulfed the royal city and the alliance army. The queen's tomb and the countless treasures she had collected were buried under the yellow sand. After hundreds of years, the flow of the desert allowed the royal city to see the light of day again. Some travelers passed by there, and as long as they took any bit of property in the city, they would cause a desert storm. Clouds of smoke would rise, and the road would be lost. Those who took the queen's treasure would never be able to leave.”
" However, the mysterious royal city, the evil queen, and the background of the era are not clearly recorded in the books. Today, when I see the murals in the tomb and compare them with the ancient legend, there are actually many similarities between the two. It makes people feel that it's not just a legend. Perhaps such things really happened in the dusty history.”
Shirley Yang asked everyone to look at the next few murals:
"The reason why we can be sure that the queen in the painting is the Queen of Jingjue is because of the special clothing of the Jingjue people, as well as the unique buildings and decorations of Jingjue. These are the strongest evidence. Professor, Mr. Hu, look at the few murals behind you, which further proves the reliability of my deduction. The meaning of these murals is very clear. The prince's assassination failed. After he returned to China, he continued to plan how to get rid of the Queen. At this time, the prince met a fortune-teller from a distant country. The fortune-teller asked the prince to hide a special slow-acting poison in the golden lamb meat and then offer it to the Queen. Sure enough, not long after, news of the Queen's sudden outburst came. At the same time, the prince died prematurely due to overwork. He was buried together with his beloved wife. The Clairvoyant had designed a mausoleum to bury them beneath the altar of the holy well.”
It turned out that the altar was built first before the tomb was built. The events recorded in the murals were closely related to the legend in the book. Professor Chen saw that although Shirley Yang was a photographer, she was born into an archaeological family and had a family background. He was very pleased that his old classmate had a daughter like her. At this moment, when he thought of his old friend who had disappeared in the depths of the desert, he couldn't help but cry.
Shirley Yang said to the professor,"
"Please take care of yourself. Don't be too sad. We've gained a lot this time. We've made a breakthrough in our understanding of the Jingjue Ruins. I believe we'll be able to find the Jingjue Ancient City soon. My late father can rest in peace.”
Hu Bayi was secretly complaining. He had wanted to find an ancient tomb so that they could turn back and return, but things did not go as he wished. It seemed that it was useless to persuade them. Qin Shi was happy.
It seemed that there really were such things. What a wonderful world.
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