Network New Liao Zhai

Chapter 585

Besides, Tom was still the leader of the previous inspection team, and Steven and Yarchkov followed with the rest, but there was no danger in the subsequent journey, and the journey went smoothly.

After walking through the secret passage for a while, at the end, a tall stone gate blocked the way.

Tom, who was walking in front, waved his hand, and the people behind stopped.

"Professor, there is a stone door ahead."

"This is the gate of the treasure cave!"

"Alibaba's treasure cave..."

"Do you want to say that the door will only open when Sesame opens?"

The crowd shouted in unison.

"Quiet!" shouted Yarchikov.

Suddenly there was silence.

"Tom, look around for traps."

Tom carefully held up the detector and surveyed along the stone door.

"No, Professor."

Yarchikov went up to check with Steven.

There is a raised circular totem on the stone wall next to the stone gate - a roc flying high. This totem is the size of a bowl and hangs on the stone wall like a badge.

"This should be the switch to open the stone gate." The two professors concluded.

"Tom, you have great strength, try to spin and twist the totem, be careful, stand aside, don't face the door. Everyone else retreats, the farther the better."

As they spoke, the two retreated into the secret passage first, and the others quickly followed suit.

Tom stepped forward, stood sideways, and tried to twist the totem with his hands, first twisting to the right, but there was no response?Going to the left, there was still no response, not to mention Shimen, not even the totem moved.

Tom spread his hands and shouted to the two professors, "Professors are useless, no."

"Try pulling the totem out to see if you can pull it out?"

"All right"!

Tom grabbed the totem with both hands and pulled it out, just like pulling a carrot, but he stepped back a few steps and sat down on the ground.

what happened?The people in the secret passage were startled, and they backed away in unison.They thought Tom had been ambushed by some agency or something.

Tom looked at the totem in his hand, dumbfounded. It turned out that the totem could be removed with a light touch, but he couldn't hold it back with too much force and fell to the ground.

Steven and Yarchkov waited for a while, and when Tom was fine, he stood up.Only then did he come out.

"Professor, come and see."

shouted Tom, pointing at the wall.

Steven and Yarchkov walked over and saw nine small squares appeared on the wall exposed by uncovering the totem, each with a different pattern.

"why? what?"

"Is this the switch?"

"Like a combination lock?"

"How to open?"

"That's right, this should be the switch to open the stone gate, but I don't know which pattern to press?"

"People in ancient times were not simple-minded. Can they design such a combination lock?"

"Well, don't underestimate these ancients, especially in China, the dead can kill people."

Tom thought to himself: How dare I underestimate it, the former Jarick and Steve are role models.

He asked cautiously: "Professor, if you press the wrong key, will there be a mechanism?"

Steven: "That's for sure. We went so smoothly just now, and we didn't encounter any traps, so the traps must be inside, otherwise there is no combination lock."

"What now?"

Yarchkov carefully looked at the nine patterns again, and found that except for the one in the middle, which was a Buddha statue, each of the other cells should be a kind of writing, but this kind of writing was not in his cognition. No.

"Steven, what do you think these patterns are?"

Steven stared at the pattern on the wall as if he was about to make a hole in the wall.

"Steven...Steven..."

Yarchikoff's shout interrupted Professor Steven's contemplation, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Yarchikov, I suspect it is the legendary Zhang Zhung script, but I'm not sure."

"Shangshung Wen?" Yarchikov's voice became sharp and high-pitched.At the same time, he quickly searched for information about the ancient kingdom of Zhang Zhung in his mind.

——The ancient country of Zhang Zhung was a tribal country that dominated the plateau before Tubo.Its territory starts from Shenshan Mountain in the AL region in the west, which is the upper Zhang Zhung; from the east to Dingqing, Qamdo, is the lower Zhang Zhung; across the Nyima and Shenzha areas in northern Tibet is the Zhong Zhang Zhung.The Xiangxiong Palace was built on the edge of Dangre Yumco Lake.The Shang Shung Kingdom is inextricably linked with ancient Persia.Xiangxiong believed in Yong Zhongben religion.

——The rise of the Zhang Zhung Kingdom in the western and northwestern parts of the plateau was at least two centuries before the alliance of the six tribes of Tubo. "Xiangzhur" is the core area of ​​U-Tsang (LS, Shigatse, Shannan, Nyingchi) and other places are called "Middle Xiangxiong"; Duokang (Naqu, Amdo, Qamdo) and other places are called "Outer Xiangxiong".The sphere of influence covers almost the entire plateau, and also spans parts of QH and SC.Strictly speaking, Zhang Zhung is not a country, but a larger and stronger tribal alliance.Afterwards, Subi and Tubo successively rose up in northern Tibet and southern Shanxi, gradually weakening the power of Zhang Zhung.The three tribes have wars with each other, forming a tripartite confrontation.

——Li Mixiu, the last king of the Zhang Zhung Kingdom, was assassinated by Chisong Dezan in collusion with his queen when he offered sacrifices to the lake, leading to the demise of Zhang Zhung.Zhang Zhung already had a high degree of civilization at that time, had created his own characters, and was the birthplace of Yong Zhongben religion.Its characters are related to the characters of ancient Kashmir and ancient Punjab (an ancient state in India), and the Tibetan language that appeared later than Zhang Zhungwen was also used for reference.

——Shangshung had risen in the remote corners of the western and northwestern regions of the plateau in the 10th century BC, and established relations with the Tang Dynasty earlier than Tubo.In the 6th and 7th centuries AD, Zhang Zhung was mainly animal husbandry and also had agriculture.The ancient Zhang Zhung had a very high civilization. It not only formed its own unique Zhang Zhung script, but also was the birthplace of the ancient Zhang Zhung Buddhism Yong Zhongben religion, which had a profound impact on the later Tubo and even the entire XZ culture.When the Zhang Zhung dynasty was at its peak, it had extremely strong military power. Its territory included most of the plateau and parts of QH, SC, and Kashmir and Ladakh in the west.Later, Tubo gradually rose up in the western plateau, and by the eighth century AD, it completely conquered Zhang Zhung.Since then, the Zhang Zhung Kingdom and culture have suddenly disappeared, and its written documents, palace ruins, etc. have not been verified so far, leaving eternal doubts.

Yarchikoff: "It's no wonder that many people have painstakingly failed to find any clues about the cultural sites of Zhang Zhung. Some people once said that Zhang Zhung is a nomadic people, and it does not belong to the civilization of the land. Now I understand that it does not belong to the civilization of the land. The land, it is buried deep underground, haha... Steven, we are here at the right time, the secret of ten thousand years is about to be discovered by us... haha..."

There was great excitement and excitement in Yarchikov's voice.

He looked at the totem in Tom's hand again, grabbed it and handed it to Steven: "Steven, Steven, look at this, this can prove..."

When Steven saw that it was the totem of the roc spreading its wings, he immediately understood.Can't help taking a breath.

Tom next to him looked confused: "Professor, professor, what's going on?"

Steven explained: "In the AL area 8000 more than [-] years ago, there were several kingdoms established by ethnic minority tribes. Among them, apart from Tubo, the most prosperous one was the powerful one that believed in the "Yongzhongben religion". Zhang Zhung Kingdom. Zhang Zhung, in the local language, means "Land of Dapeng". Xiang Zhung, "Shantong" recorded in Han history, is the earliest civilization center on the plateau. The ancient Zhang Zhung people used Dapeng as their totem. Now The cave we discovered may have buried the Zhang Zhung civilization."

"Ah! 8000 more than [-] years, that's not how we got rich!"

Tom couldn't help jumping up.

Yarchikov: "Yes, a fortune. But first the door must be opened."

"Let me give it a try." Steven pressed down on the first pattern, Shimen didn't respond, the second one still didn't respond, until the Buddha statue in the middle, after pressing down, everyone heard a chirping With the sound of clicking, the stone door moved slowly to both sides and opened.

"Send someone in to have a look, and the others back off."

Tom pointed at someone casually: "You go."

The man couldn't object, who made Tom the boss!He carefully walked to the door with a flashlight and looked inside. Although there was still a miner's lamp on his head for illumination, he still couldn't see anything clearly.

(End of this chapter)