Chapter 41 Chapter 40 The place that offends the gods

When the gunshot rang out, Da Qi and Chu Feng were deep underground, so they didn't hear it, otherwise, with Da Qi's vigilance, they would have already rushed out.However, it is also possible that this failure was not due to the sound insulation effect of the underground, but because they were in absolute shock at the time! It may be due to the damage caused by the earthquake, or the long-term invasion of yellow sand, the steps are incomplete.Among the three, Da Qi was naturally the most skilled, so he was the first to explore the way.Chu Feng and William tied him a length of safety rope that was not too long. After this end was fixed, he carefully went down one step at a time. After descending about six meters, he found an entrance under his feet.After confirming that there was no danger, he waved Chu Feng and William down.

Chu Feng greeted William and walked down.The rope had already been fixed by Daqi on the edge of the cliff, and Chu Feng warned William that in order to ensure safety, he must hook the safety rope on his body firmly to the rope. The two quickly descended to the entrance.This entrance looks very old at first glance, and half of it has collapsed, but people can still pass through if they bend their waists.Da Qi tried the ventilation inside, and after confirming that the ventilation effect was good, he took out his small bright flashlight and took the lead in walking in. As soon as he entered, Chu Feng felt as if he had walked into the collective dormitory of the university back then.The houses were all the same size, divided into two symmetrical rows by walls made of yellow clay embryos.What they saw when they entered the first house was exactly the same as the tenth house: they were all rectangular rooms of about 6 square meters, and they were empty inside.It wasn't until they entered the sixth room on the west side that they found something different.In that hut was a well with four flumes.The water tanks correspond to the four directions of east, west, north and south, one for each direction, and they are all square.

"This should be a water room!" Chu Feng expressed his judgment when he saw what was in front of him.The shape of this building is exactly the same as that found by the Germans in the ruins of the city of Babylon more than 100 years ago. The ruins have always been suspected to be the ruins of the famous Neo-Babylonian hanging garden in the city of Babylon, just because the Germans excavated it at that time. The strata were proved to be post-Neo-Babylonian strata, but the timing is different and controversial.The strange buildings like this proved to be water houses. Chu Feng checked visually. The area of ​​this water house should not be smaller than the water house of the Babylonians. The water house built by the Babylonians is about 1,200 square meters, which they used to water the flowers.That said, the people in the castle here have special water needs.

If the part of this building that was buried by yellow sand is counted, it could only be regarded as a semi-basement in those days.After looking at these huts one by one, I didn't find the passage leading to the next floor. It seems that I have to walk the outer steps. Knowing this, Chu Feng and the others quickly went down to the second floor without stopping. This floor is not easy to get down, the steps are incomplete, Da Qi's feet will rustle down when they step on it, and the ropes brought by Chu Feng and others are basically used when fixing the single-plank bridge. A rope of up to ten meters was tied to Daqi's body.Da Qi clings to the cliff with his hands, his body is like a gecko, and he steps on it carefully before he dares to go down step by step.Chu Feng and William distanced themselves from him and followed his footsteps step by step.

If the upper floor is a water room, then this floor should be a cell.The evolution of this prison cell is the least innovative, and it hasn't changed much for thousands of years.It's all an airtight black house with a strong fence. There are no more steps here, Chu Feng and others smiled wryly, maybe they found the wrong place, and there was nothing valuable to discover here, but the discovery of the cell of the Loulan people also filled a gap.Chu Feng thought to himself, indeed, so far, no such complete ancient ruins have been found in the Loulan area, and there is only one prison cell.

The three of them walked all the way to the innermost floor. This floor seemed to be different in size from the water room above, and the cell area on this floor seemed to be larger.As the three of them walked, they became less and less hopeful. At this moment, Chu Feng suddenly stopped: "No! No!" It didn't matter that he stopped, William, who was following him, bumped into his back directly, "Ouch!" William wailed while holding his nose, "My nose! I said Brother Chu, why did you stop suddenly because you are fine! It's over, it's over, this high nose, it's ruined!"

Chu Feng could hear that there was not much pain in the boy's tone, so he ignored him: "No, don't you think that this cell is a bit too big for this small town?" Having said that, the two of them also felt that something was wrong. When Wang Cong was on the top just now, the total length of the city wall was measured to be 610 meters. Based on this, it was inferred that the area of ​​the entire city would exceed 20,000 square meters. The area of ​​the water room in the prison is almost 1,200 square meters, which is exaggerated enough, but considering the special dry environment here, it is understandable that people here attach importance to water, but it is not normal for the cell to be built larger than this .According to normal estimates, the population living here is about 1,000 people. How could such a large cell be needed?

After listening to Chu Feng's explanation, Lin William's eyes lit up instantly! "Brother Chu, there is a secret here!" As he said that, he couldn't wait to run to the cell at the end, and began to check carefully one by one again.Chu Feng looked at his excitement, smiled and shook his head, but did not follow.In his mind, if the above cells were really prison cells, then the reason why this cell was built so large might not be to hold prisoners at all, but for other purposes.This can be proved by the fact that no corpses were found in the dozens of cells they passed by, because no one would think of the prisoners held underground when everyone was in a hurry to escape.If there are really prisoners in this cell, the cell will always be the most forgotten place when everyone flees in a hurry when the safety of the whole city is endangered.

Thinking of this, Chu Feng kept walking towards the innermost room without stopping.Because it was very dark inside, I couldn't see clearly when I got close, but once I got close, I immediately felt that this room was really different, it was definitely not a prison cell!The walnut door carved with cherubs and patterns has an obvious Greek style. How could there be such a room in the depths of this underground cell? Before Chu Feng had time to think about it, he quickly summoned William to come over, put his hand on the wooden handle of the door, pushed it lightly, and the door opened!

Opening the door so easily took all three of them by surprise.Lin Weilian was muttering something, and Chu Feng could hear something like "it's not challenging, there must be nothing good".He smirked slightly, this kid just read too many adventure novels! As soon as the door was pushed open, the three of them were a little disappointed, because the room was empty like the cell outside, the difference was that there were some wooden shelves on the surrounding walls, which seemed to hold some things at first, but now nothing left! Chu Feng walked over and knocked on the wooden frame, the wood was still very hard, it seemed that it might be made of poplar wood.Looking at the furnishings here, Chu Feng somehow thought of the word museum. These shelves are really like the display racks in the museum.

He deliberated over those wooden shelves one by one, feeling a little weird in his heart, as if there was something important to him in this room, and he was a little restless. Da Qi and William have long been a little impatient. This room is not big, square and square, and you can see it all at a glance. There is something hidden. They feel that it is not worth wasting time here. But here Chu Feng is a professional, and it is not easy for them to urge them. Just when Chu Feng knocked on the second wooden board of the wooden shelf on the west wall, he found a familiar symbol. He had seen this symbol before. In the Loulan Royal Tomb in Shanshan, there were two places with this symbol." *", one is at the door of the tomb, and the other is on the huge stone outside the main tomb.This symbol also became the key for Chu Feng to find the mechanism to open the tomb door of the main tomb. "Organ?" Chu Feng's heart skipped a beat when he thought of this.When I was looking for the right tomb door, it was because the pattern of the "*" symbol painted on the outside of the huge stone coffin in the main tomb was slanted.The symbol here is a wooden relief, is it also a mechanism? Thinking of this, Chu Feng stretched out his hand and twisted the relief to the right, "Hey!" There was no movement! Press down again, nothing happened.Chu Feng remembered the discussion between himself and Ling Ning on this symbol that day, and the picture of the Kunlun Mountain rock painting that Professor Ling showed him later.He vaguely remembered that the symbols on the petroglyphs seemed to be tilted a little to the left. Could it be?Is this symbol really the same as the one that appears in the rock paintings of Kunlun Mountain?Do Loulan people and Kunlun really have any unknown connection as the teacher guessed?Chu Feng's heart was like lightning, but his hands didn't stop. He twisted to the left according to his impression of the symbols in the rock painting!A mutation has happened! There was a strange sound from the ground, and the mechanism was turned on.I saw that the ground was shaking non-stop in the middle west of the house, and the loess on the surface fell down rustlingly.When the vibration stopped, Chu Feng and others walked over to take a look. The original stones were retracted, revealing a secret passageway with steps that rotated downward. Da Qi first dropped a fluorescent stick down. Unfortunately, due to the strange rotation angle of the steps, the fluorescent stick didn't fall very far, and it was impossible to test how deep the tunnel was. The three made a few torches from the ready-made wood in the cell outside. Da Qi also threw a torch down in advance to test the air condition underneath. The three walked down cautiously.Chu Feng was secretly startled as he walked. The secret path has been going downwards, and he has traveled so far.Why did the people in this city build such a secret tunnel?Could it be related to the secret of the Loulan Kingdom? Why Bilong, the last king of Loulan, still chose to escape after winning the battle and took away half of the residents of Loulan has always been a mystery.In "Wei Shu · Western Regions", it clearly records the original text that Bilong said before he fled to the west: "The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and the natural way. Today Wuwei was destroyed by Wei, and I am second. If you understand it, you will know our country. For things, taking death must be close, it is better to stop it, it can last for a long time." This "state affairs" statement clearly tells the world that Loulan has a secret, and other countries that know this secret will definitely choose to destroy it.What is this secret? Countless people have guessed and searched for it for thousands of years.But there is no clue.Did everyone look for the wrong place at the beginning, the secret is not in the capital of Loulan, but buried deep in the ground of this little-known town? It is said in the history books that Bilong "runs westward to the end", but in fact Bilong did not go to Qiemo later, but did not know where he ended up. , this place can never be Qiemo at that time.Because the condition of the Qiemo oasis at that time was too poor, it could only accommodate one or two hundred households. Bilong had been in the land for many years, and he knew this. He must have gone to a place that could accommodate so many residents under him. A place that can be isolated from the world. Judging from the family composition at that time, the population of 4,000 households was at least 20,000. This may not be a big deal in the Central Plains, but in the Western Regions, it is a huge population.Moreover, it is popular in the Western Regions to raise slaves, and the number of slaves is innumerable. The 4,000 households that Bilong took away are the core and main residents of Loulan, and most of them must be large households.Calculated in this way, the population who fled at that time may even exceed a multiple of 20,000.Given the natural conditions at that time, the only place that could accommodate so many people was the Hotan Oasis in the south.It is much more likely than Longnan to go to Hotan, and it is much more likely than "West to Qiemo", so why is it recorded in the history books?Could it be that Bilong also played a trick of "beating the east and hitting the west" at that time? As Chu Feng closely followed Da Qi's footsteps, these thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning.If there are really some shocking secrets hidden in Loulan Kingdom, it is really a suitable choice to hide the secrets in this small city, about 200 kilometers away from the royal city, on the northern shore of Lop Nur and on the southern edge of the Kumtag Desert.This is also the rule of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, and the location is relatively remote, so it is not easy to attract attention.And its location is not far from the ancient road that runs through Lop Nur and connects Gaochang Kingdom and Loulan City, which has long been unknown today. That is to say, in those days, the traffic in this city was not as inconvenient as it is today, but Not easy to spot.Such a hidden and convenient place is most suitable for use as a secret base. Just as Chu Feng was still thinking wildly, Da Qi stopped in front of him. If Chu Feng didn't pay attention, he almost became Lin William's second. Fortunately, Da Qi dodged to the side in time, so that Chu Feng didn't make a fool of himself. Here is a circular arched exit. Under the firelight, although the light in front is not enough, you can still see the vastness of this space! At this time, Chu Feng and others were located at the side exit on the upper floor of this open space. There are two floors here, and it is a double-layer stone palace with a strong ancient Greek and Roman architectural style. If as expected, this place should be in the middle of the cliff. The order of construction here should be to dig out the grotto first, and then build a palace with huge stones, stone pillars and colored bricks on the basis of the grotto. . Holding torches, Chu Feng and the others stared dumbfounded at the ingenious building in front of them.In this desert, where did so many huge stones come from? They have already found the steps to go downstairs and reached the bottom floor. Here, the whole palace is even more majestic.There are 8 stone pillars with a diameter of 2 meters on the bottom floor to support the front hall, and 8 stone pillars on the upper floor are tightly supported on the mountain wall.On the stone pillars are statues of beautiful winged women and children.On the top of the stone palace, there is a statue of a god glaring at him. According to its appearance, it looks a bit like the statue in the tower on the opposite cliff, but the statue here does not have wings, and it is facing downwards, with the appearance of a thunderbolt about to erupt. The expression of wrath is overlooking here. Although the entire palace may be over 30 meters high, when Chu Feng and others looked at him from below, they still felt that his anger might fall on them at any time. Among the stone pillars in the front hall, there are many statues, such as winged tigers, horses with hard rhinoceros horns, warriors with wings and so on.These statues have strange shapes, symmetrical left and right, and rough lines, all the way to the apse. The apse is connected to the upper floor. Because Chu Feng and his line of sight were blocked before, it was only now that they could see clearly that there was a tall statue of a human head and a snake among the eight symmetrical stone pillars in the apse. "Nuwa?!" "Fuxi?" The three exclaimed, because the light was too dark to see whether the head of the stone statue was male or female, but the most famous people with this image were nothing more than the two bit. The torch was raised on the mountain wall, but the head of the stone statue was still invisible. It was too high, at least 20 meters high, and the python tail underneath was carved vividly, as if there was really a giant python entrenched on the mountain wall. . William was impatient and couldn't wait. He hurriedly followed the original road to the second floor and shouted: "Brother Chu, try to raise your torches as high as possible. I'll take a look from above. Who the hell is this?" Chu Feng and Da Qiyi Yan raised the torch as high as possible: "Did you see clearly?" It took a long time from above to hear William Lin's regretful voice: "I didn't see it clearly! It's too high, the torch can't reach it, and the head is blurry, so I can't even tell whether it's a man or a woman!" Chu Feng looked up at the mountain wall. It would not be difficult to climb up to this height, but this is not the top priority right now.He turned around and greeted: "William! Come down quickly, we have to speed up, Sang team and the others may be in a hurry!" After saying this, he withdrew his eyes first, and just as his eyes swept away inadvertently, he seemed to see writing on the wall above his head. Chu Feng rubbed his eyes, but didn't look at the flowers!He raised the torch again, and sure enough, there was a line of Kalu characters written vertically on the mountain wall about 2 meters above the ground. If it was a more complicated sentence, Chu Feng might not be able to recognize it on the spot for a while, but he happened to know this sentence: "This is a place to offend the gods!" "The land that offends the gods"?What's the meaning?After Chu Feng saw that this castle seemed to be related to the legendary ancient Babylon city, he had checked the information on the ancient Babylon city, and he clearly knew that the ancient Babylon city was called "the city that offends God".Therefore, I also specifically checked the pronunciation of the word "offensive" in the Lu language.Didn't expect it to come in handy now. He held up the torch and read it carefully three times, keeping the words on the wall firmly in his heart. It was all because he lent Wang Cong his computer to register those golden artworks, otherwise he could scan them directly.However, he suddenly remembered, didn't William have a camera. "William! Come down quickly! Give me your camera!" Thinking of this, he raised his voice to urge William. William was urged by him, and ran down quickly, saw the text illuminated by the torch he was holding, and without him saying anything, he turned the camera to the flash function and took a picture. Chu Feng saw that he had already photographed the words on the wall according to his own ideas, so he didn't say any more, holding a torch, he went around the mountain wall and searched quickly to see if he could find anything! Lin Weilian took a random photo here, regardless of the north, south, east, and west. He also knew that he was short of time waiting for someone this time, and there were not enough people, so he couldn't do a detailed investigation. He was walking around with the camera in his hand, and when he reached the center of the apse, he tripped because he was flustered and didn't pay attention: "Ouch!" Hearing his yell, Chu Feng thought that something had happened to him, so he hurried over to help him up: "You say you are so careless when you are such an adult. Fortunately, there are no organs or anything here. If there are, say Maybe you're done playing!" Before the words fell, I don't know whether it was Chu Feng who had a crow's mouth just now or Lin William was just too lucky. He won the lottery again, and this fall successfully broke a trick.