Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen Loulan Queen

Yuan Sen and the others climbed onto the sandbags and collapsed on the hot sand. Every limb was in pain. They all closed their eyes, wishing they could be roasted into mummified corpses by the sun.Only Wang Hui stood at the highest point, looking west with a telescope, frowning. They rested for about half an hour, and Wang Hui said: "That's enough, get up quickly, we still have to hurry." The three of them were stunned and said, "Hurry up, where are you going?" Wang Huidao: "Go to Karakushun, the mysterious place where the map's ear holes are. That's where the miracles of Lop Nur are really hidden."

"The Miracle of Lop Nur?" Wang Huidao: "Have you ever heard of a story? Half a century ago, Stein, the explorer known as the Dunhuang Bandit, found a painted canoe-shaped coffin in the Kumtag Desert. The coffin was embroidered with strange patterns. Inside the colored coffin is a corpse, the corpse is very strange, it only has a human skeleton, but it has two hands and feet." Yuan Sen said: "Four-handed and four-legged weirdo? We have seen his murals in the Flaming Mountains of Turpan, and I also found a piece of his shed skin. This weirdo is worshiped by beautiful women. He has supernatural powers and can crawl on upside-down stone pillars." Like flying."

Wang Hui nodded and said: "The colored coffin disappeared in the middle of the night, and it may have been buried by the wind and sand again. Before that, Stein found a text in the colored coffin and deciphered it after returning to China. With this faction, he After returning to southern Xinjiang, after many twists and turns, he finally found the mystery of the life experience of the four-handed and four-legged monster. He is the god worshiped by the beauty, and after the civilization of the beauty was massacred by Gao Xianzhi, he led a small group of people from the Kumtag Desert. Back in Lop Nur, the remaining Qili nobles fled to the Altai Mountains with their king, and that king was the god Hambar Ata. According to data analysis, the four-handed and four-legged monster returned to Lop Nur to send an iron box."

"Iron box?" Yuan Sen immediately thought of the iron box they found in the underground space of the Flame Mountain. The strange man's iron box came from the underground space. The professor once said that there was a pair of boxes. Could it be that the other box he gave away? Wang Huidao: "The strange man successfully sent the box to Lop Nur, and died in the desert on the way back to the Flame Mountain. The Qili officers and soldiers who accompanied him buried him in the desert. It happened that more than a thousand years later, the coffin was blown to pieces by the wind and sand. It was exposed and was discovered by Stein. He was expelled by the Chinese government because of his misdeeds of stealing treasures, so he spent his time abroad and hired an expedition team to help him solve the secrets of the colorful coffin. After decades, these secrets were finally solved by him .”

Yuan Sen said: "Did Stein find out what was hidden in that iron box?" "I also asked the same question, but he didn't answer. He just asked us to go to that place in person. Once there, all the secrets will be unlocked." Wang Hui said lightly. "He? Who is he?" Yuan Sen was extremely nervous, and he seemed to know the answer. "It's that weird guy. Before he came, he asked mercenaries to plant countless heavy bombs underground. He said that he has three purposes for living up to now. Whether the girl who looks exactly the same is still alive, the third is to destroy this magic city that ruined his future and destiny, he can't do the first two, so he can only complete the third task."

Yuan Sen said: "Is that still him? I clearly see that he has the face of Professor Yang Jian, and he is obviously a professor." Wang Huidao: "He has a lot of skins on him, including Ali Pu, Germain's, and Professor Yang Jian's." Yuan Sen's heart trembled, and he lost his voice: "You—you mean—the professor is dead?" Wang Hui shook her head, with a hint of melancholy in her eyes, and said, "I don't know, that's what he told me. He said that the purpose of destroying those videotapes was to prevent us from harming us. At the last moment, because my face resembled that girl too much. , he was moved with kindness."

Yuan Sen jumped up from the hot sandbag and shouted: "Since all the doubts are in Karakushun, what are you waiting for, let's go!" He quickly ran down the sandbag and ran wildly in the direction he remembered.A few hours later, they returned to Kauna Abdan.They dug out the off-road vehicles from the sandbags, and without a break, they drove straight to Karakusun Lake, which is the lake where New Abdan belongs. They arrived in Karakushun, and quickly fixed the general location according to the map drawn from the video tape, but they still couldn't determine the specific location.The salt flats were glowing white under the scorching sun. When they looked around, they were all empty. A tiny place on the map was magnified countless times in reality. It was impossible to find the ear hole on the map.

All four were in trouble.Wang Hui thought for a long time, and took out a black disc from his backpack, which was a suspected compass found in the coffin of Toketa Ahong. Wang Hui poured some water into the disc, and the magnetic needle in the disc immediately spun rapidly, and after a while, it wobbled in one direction.Wang Hui walked quickly along the direction pointed by the magnetic needle, and came to a sunken saline-alkali land. The magnetic needle spun like crazy. Wang Hui said pleasantly: "Yes, it is here." Ai Kailam looked around, very disbelieving, and said: "Assistant Wang, you see that this place is no different from other places, why is it here?"

Yuan Sen squatted down and used a dagger to dig out the salt-alkali block. After digging for a long time, he finally lost one piece. He looked up at Wang Hui and said, "If there is a problem here, it is also under the salt-alkali flat. If we want to dig out the salt-alkali Beach, almost impossible." Wang Hui thought for a while, and asked others to find some stones and the like, and surrounded a circle with a radius of 20 meters at the suspicious location.After that, they drove to a location with good signal and reported the situation to Dr. Tian by phone.Soon, Dr. Tian replied to them, telling them to wait in place, and he immediately mobilized engineering troops to come to support.

The three stayed where they were, and Ai Kailam drove to Milan to collect some supplies and came back.After waiting for about a day and a half, they saw a large number of military vehicles marching into the salt flats, and there were countless excavation equipment and engineering equipment.Dr. Tian came over accompanied by his secretary. He jumped out of the car and held the hands of the four of them, saying repeatedly: "You have worked hard, you have worked hard, you are all good comrades, and you will be feared by future generations!" Everyone exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then the engineering team leader began to assign homework in the designated area.Yuan Sen and the others were arranged to rest in a big tent.

The engineering troops continued to excavate the salt-alkali flat for about a week, and dug the delineated area of ​​the salt-alkali flat to a depth of tens of meters.One night, Dr. Tian was drinking tea with the four of them in the tent. The engineering team leader rushed in yelling and said, "Doctor, we have dug it, we have dug it, there is an ancient city under the salt-alkali flat." Dr. Tian suddenly stood up and said in surprise, "Ancient city?" The engineering captain nodded, with a smile on his face, and said: "Doctor, you will know when you go and have a look, it is a well-preserved ancient city." Dr. Tian nodded, and the four of them followed the engineering team leader to the job site.The excavation machines at the site were all stopped, and high-power searchlights were on under the large pit with a radius of 20 meters. There was a well-preserved ancient city 40 meters underground, which looked abrupt and mysterious, and the group of people were extremely surprised. Dr. Tian said to the project leader: "Has anyone entered the city?" The captain shook his head and said: "Not yet, just set up searchlights below, and go down after you give the order." Dr. Tian nodded and said, "Okay, you find three skilled fighters, and we will go down together." After all, he didn't listen to the captain's persuasion, put on his military uniform, and followed Yuan Sen and the other three soldiers down the ancient city by elevator.The ancient city was wrapped in a saline-alkali shell, and when the saline-alkali shell was dug out, the appearance of the city inside was well preserved, and the city walls were not damaged at all. When everyone entered the city gate, they suddenly saw a giant statue standing inside the city.The statue has slender eyebrows and big eyes, drooping cheeks, a tall figure, and wears a felt hat with peacock feathers.Her temperament and appearance are so refined that the group of explorers, from Dr. Tian to the little soldiers, were all overwhelmed by the statue's appearance and demeanor. They watched for a while.Dr. Tian said: "Strange—strange—this woman was carved out of the same mold as the female corpse you found in the underground space of the Flame Mountain. She is completely the same person!" Everyone who has seen the female corpse has discovered this, and the expression and posture of the statue are perfect.Although the female corpse is also beautiful, it is a pity that after thousands of years of polishing, her beauty in life has long been subtracted. Compared with the statue, it is still far behind, so they can't be completely sure at once. Now that Dr. Tian had said it, they all knew the truth in their hearts, and they were sure that the statue was the female corpse in the underground space of the Flame Mountain. When they entered the city, there were several palaces and many murals in the palaces. After a quick look at the murals in the halls, they guessed that this woman was the lord of a country with a prominent status.They also found traces of four-handed and four-legged monsters and beautiful armored cavalry on the murals.Dr. Tian had people draw these murals and kept them as important materials. Dr. Tian also found many fragments of official documents. He identified them on the spot and asserted that this ancient city belonged to Loulan people, and the mistress of the palace should be Queen Loulan. The expedition team found a deep well in a palace. The well had been exhausted. The engineering team leader used modern high-tech to try to detect the depth of the ancient well, but he could not measure the true depth of the ancient well. It is said that it has exceeded their measurement limit. The expedition team searched every corner of the ancient city, but found no trace of Professor Yang Jian.In fact, this ancient city has always been deep in the saline-alkali crust, and without modern mechanical excavation, it is impossible to dig it out. The statement that Professor Yang Jian visited the ancient city is naturally refuted by the facts. Yuan Sen was extremely desperate. The professor had never been to the ancient city, so where did he go?Was it really murdered by the weirdo in the drilling well, and his face was taken off as a mask? Thinking of this, he trembled all over, not daring to think about it any further. Dr. Tian took the information collected in the ancient city back to Urumqi and asked relevant experts to study it. A month later, he came to the conclusion that according to the murals, the female statue in the ancient city is the last queen of Loulan. This ancient city is a subsidiary city of Loulan city. , is the queen's palace.The city of Loulan was originally extremely prosperous, but because of a bizarre plague, a large number of residents died, and the queen could only take the nobles to escape to the small city.After arriving in the small town, they still failed to escape the disaster. The residents of the city died one by one, and even a very small number of people mutated and gave birth to two hands and feet. Until one day, a defeated Serbian army passed through the city. Queen Loulan had a plan and used the mutated four-handed and four-legged monster as bait, saying that the only way for the Serbians to make a comeback was to worship the high-ranking soldiers in the city. Man is God, otherwise he will flee forever. King Sai didn't believe it, and Queen Loulan showed him the weird four-handed and four-legged monsters in the city, and also performed a variety of strange skills. King Sai was so surprised, so he surrendered.Queen Loulan offered King Sai a plan, asking him to take two treasures in the city to Lukeqin Flame Mountain to settle the country, and to eat grapes. King Sai surrendered and obeyed Queen Loulan.King Sai left the ancient city for Lukeqin with the treasure and the four-handed and four-legged monster.Queen Loulan left her subjects here and left with King Sai.She judged that the source of the bizarre plague was two ominous treasures in the city, so she sacrificed herself to let the subjects continue to live. Yuan Sen and the others sat in Dr. Tian's office, listening to Dr. Tian explain the mystery of Loulan's destruction of the country more than a thousand years ago. Ai Kaila said woodenly: "Old man, speaking of it this way, King Sai is the king of Qiliren, and also the god Hambar Ata honored by the Kangbasa people. This matter is really fucking complicated. Master Ai's brain is a bit It's messed up." Dr. Tian nodded and said, "I see you, it's not messy at all, that's what you say." Yuan Sen had mixed feelings in his heart, and said, "Doctor, the two treasures in the ancient city of Loulan must be those two boxes. We didn't find the one sent back by the four-handed and four-legged monster, and we didn't find the one sent back by Professor Yang Jian." Found it, where did they go?" Dr. Tian bowed his head sadly, and said, "Xiao Yuan, believe in your own beliefs, we will definitely solve this mystery, and we will definitely find Yang Jian's whereabouts." Yuan Sen nodded, but could no longer speak. A week later, Yuan Sen opened his e-mail and unexpectedly received an e-mail from Professor Yang Jian. Yuan Sen's heart skipped a beat, he opened the email tremblingly, and there were a few short sentences in it: Xiao Yuan: I haven't seen you for more than a month, and I've been fine recently.Farewell to Huoyan Mountain, I went to Lop Nur, only to find that I made a big mistake, and the consequences of that mistake were unimaginable.Fortunately, I found out in time and made amends.do you know?The earth is actually connected.If you discover this secret, you can come to me; if you can't figure it out, don't look for me again. Yang Jian