Chapter 24 Chapter 24 The Jar of the Queen Mother of the West

I had been listening to that sneer-like signal for more than an hour just now, and I was almost used to this sound in my mind. Now that the boat suddenly became quiet, I already felt a little uncomfortable.I don't know why, but now I heard the same voice appearing in the darkness around me. I always felt that voice was inappropriate, but when I heard it at this time, I felt very strange in my heart. Although I feel that it may be an auditory hallucination, it is better not to take it for granted in this kind of place. I zip up, turn on the flashlight, and walk behind the stone to check.

The stone is very irregular, I don't know what kind of rock it is.Here are all mounds, I don't know where these chaotic rocks come from, they can't grow out of the ground. It was pitch black behind the stone, and there was a blind spot that the flashlight couldn't reach.I went around to take a photo, but I couldn't see anything. The gap behind the stone was very small, and it was unlikely to hide anything.I kicked the rock and found that it was not stable. I took pictures around it again, but I didn't see anything. Everything was calm, so I thought I might have heard it wrong.Shaking my head, I walked back, Aning asked me what was wrong, and I told her that she might be a little nervous, thinking there was something there.

Sitting back by the campfire to keep warm, the two had nothing to say, I leaned on the rock, I just wanted to close my eyes and rest, afraid that there might be something that would require our help.However, tiredness hit me, and I soon became a little drowsy, and I didn't know when I fell asleep. When I woke up, the sky was already bright, but not very bright, it seemed to be early morning.At this time, the wind had completely stopped, and I heard Tashi's voice. I got up and saw that they had all come in, as if the camp outside had been moved in, and tents and bonfires were set up around them.The Caucasian has been moved into the tent, Aning is still resting in the sleeping bag on one side, and there are people busy around.

There was an extra blanket on my body, and I didn't know who covered me. I struggled to get up, yawned, and looked around.At first glance, I was attracted by the scenery of the wind-eroded rocks around me, and I couldn't help being stunned for a moment. The view of Devil City during the day is extremely wide, and the surrounding wind-eroded rocks look much more spectacular than at night. The huge mountains and rocks that rise from the ground stand like pyramids around us.Those rocks that look dark at night now show various strange shapes, coupled with the infinite vastness of the Gobi, this spectacular feeling cannot be described in words.

This is not an adult Yardang landform. If it has been honed by wind and sand for another million years, how spectacular will the scenery here be? I stared in a daze for a while before I came back to my senses and noticed the people around me who were transporting things from the sunken ship on the mound.The mound last night was much taller than what I saw. Nails and ropes were put on it for easy climbing, and a hanging basket was also made. Someone excavated on it, and Wu Laosi took care of it and sorted it out. Hang from the basket. Dingzhu Dolma and her daughter-in-law cooked breakfast and buttered tea. When she saw me wake up, she gestured for me to eat.I went over to drink a bowl of tea, took a piece of bread, walked up to Wu Lao Si and asked what they were doing while eating.

Wu Laosi heard that he was an insider, who was recruiting for Jude, and he liked me a little. He nodded when he saw me coming, and told me that the injury of the Caucasian was more serious, and the team doctor was still checking the wound on his abdomen, showing signs of infection , so the team may have to go back and reorganize before making plans.They didn't want to go back empty-handed. The sunken ship was a big discovery. They wanted to record it and take something out to report to the company. I sat next to him and looked at the sunken ship above my head, it was so big!At night, I didn't feel that it was so big. It seemed that the ship was a regular merchant ship. The head was probably exposed after the mound collapsed before.

Looking down again at what they had cleared out of it.Each of those clay pots was as big as a toilet bowl, and surprisingly, none of them were damaged. It seems that the process of sinking the ship was very slow.There are patterns unique to the Western Regions on the jars, some are black patterns, and some are similar to words, none of which belong to the Han people.When I asked what it was, Wu Laosi shook his head and said no one knew.The culture of the Western Regions is very special, very mysterious, and very few remains.With a history of more than 5,000 years in the Western Regions, so many ancient cities were buried in the Gobi sand.In the past, Hoh Xil and Taklimakan were both called Xihuang in ancient times, and the population distribution was very sparse. It is too difficult to study now.

"However, these ancient pottery have a long history. Generally, we trade in the Western Regions are porcelain. These pottery pots are the product of the peak of pottery development, and they should be before the Tang Dynasty. I don't know whether they were transported from the Central Plains to the Western Regions or transported from the Western Regions. It came out to the Arab world. This area should already be the territory of the Queen Mother of the West, I don’t know if it has something to do with the Queen Mother of the West.” Another person wearing glasses said. Wu Laosi nodded in agreement, and said, "I also think it's very possible, you see." He pointed to a pattern on a clay pot, which was a pattern of a bird, "This is the legendary totem of the Queen Mother of the West. Three Blue Birds. Of course, it is not ruled out that people from other countries will also use it. Because at that time, the Queen Mother of the West was still the spiritual center of the Western Regions. Because of its weird mystery, even though it was not as powerful as in the Zhou Dynasty, other countries still respected the magic power in the legend of the Queen Mother of the West. , but they all come to pay homage, or show worship in form.”

I have no interest in this at all. These belong to the category of archaeology, so I interrupted them and asked: "Then what is in this jar? It must be empty, what a waste." The mouths of the cans are all sealed with a special kind of mud, green and black, a bit like the mud seals on wine jars.I smelled it, and it smelled a little spicy, and it felt very familiar. After I moved it, the jar was a bit heavy, so there must be something in it, but it's not liquid. I asked why they didn't open it?Wu Laosi said that they try not to destroy these intact ones, and check later to see if there are any damaged ones, so there is no need to open them. In case the things inside are more precious and cannot withstand oxidation, this can save some money and prevent archaeological waste.

I just laughed, thinking that the third uncle and the others don't have this kind of tricks, if the fat man is there, he can't help but smash it open. But we have to respect other people's way of doing things. After I finished the last bite of bread, I told him that you should do it yourself. When you find the jar, call me when you open it.Then I went to the Caucasian tent to see how he was doing. When I walked into the tent, I found it was very cramped. After a closer look, I found that the other two corpses had also been moved down, lying on one side covered with a thermal cloth.The team doctor hadn't slept all night, his eyelids were obviously darkened, and he was taking the temperature of the Caucasian.

I asked him about the situation, and he told me again, that he was confused and talking nonsense, but he was better than before. The suffocation and hypoxia should be fine, it’s just this strange wound on the stomach... He let me see two The corpse also had the same wounds, one on the chest and one on the inner thigh, both had a small amount of blood, but there were no holes in the coat, so I don't know how it happened. I walked up to the Caucasian, his face pale and sweaty, but the respirator was off and apparently stabilized.I saw his lips moving, as if he was talking about something, I listened closely, it wasn't Chinese, it seemed to be English. "What is he talking about?" I asked the team doctor.My English is not that good, I can talk about business, but I can’t hear nonsense. The team doctor also shook his head, saying that he couldn't hear clearly, and his English was not good.But after regaining consciousness a bit, the Caucasian kept chanting about this. I bent down, trying to get closer to listen, but it still didn't work, so I had to give up.Walking out of the tent, I want to go back and sleep again, but I have nothing to do here anyway. When I got to the sleeping place, I lay down and thought about what happened last night, and I quickly squinted away. I don't know how long I slept, when I suddenly heard someone call my name.I sat up in a daze to watch, and saw a lot of people surrounded by Wu Lao Si, who was waving at me, as if there was something wrong. I got up and walked over.As soon as I approached them, I smelled an extremely strange smell. I said it was not smelly, but when I smelled it, my throat felt hot, as if I had inhaled sulfuric acid gas, which was very uncomfortable.I covered my nose and looked over, and saw that they had found a few broken jars and were smashing them, and Wu Laosi asked me to see them. More than a dozen jars had already been smashed, and Wu Laosi was pouring out the contents one by one.The first thing I saw was the mud crumbs, which were all black dried mud crumbs, and within those were some sort of soil balls, all muddy and disgusting.Strangely, I saw a lot of black hairs on the surface of these balls, which looked very strange. There are more than a dozen soil balls piled up on one side. I don’t know what they are. I wonder if the watermelons of the past have turned into stones now? When I got closer and took a closer look, I felt suffocated for a while.I found that those mud balls turned out to be human heads wrapped in dry mud one by one, and those black hairs turned out to be the hair of human heads.