World Tibet Bureau

The distance is a little far, so the details are not clear, but I feel that this ice corpse seems to be relatively small.

Seeing this, Hao An frowned: "Miss Nozawa, time is running out, we must return quickly!"

However, Nozawa Nako raised her hand to stop: "There are still 10 minutes left! Zhu, Yu, you two go dig out the ice corpse and take a look!"

Hao An: "..."

I'm quite speechless at this girl's style.

Now she was looking for a place to set up camp. What did she care about this ice corpse?
The two subordinates hurried over with tools.

Nozawa Nako explained: "It is impossible for corpses to appear in the inaccessible Daisetsu Mountain for no reason! I have to rule out whether someone has been here before we came here!"

Be cautious and attentive.

enough.

After the two subordinates climbed up, they dug out the ice corpse in just a few minutes. They seemed a little excited and waved to us, asking us to hurry over.

We walked over.

"Ms. Nozawa, this is not a corpse!"

I take a closer look.

It's definitely not a corpse.

It is a dark wooden sculpture that looks like a monk. He is very thin and sits cross-legged. His clothes are Tibetan style, but his eyes are wide open and he looks like a King Kong with an angry look. There is a thick layer of ice on the outside. , transparent, looking like a corpse from a distance.

but.

There is nothing special about this wooden monk. The wood is relatively ordinary oak, the carving is average, and it is not valuable at all.

"The snow below is still soft, and there seems to be a snow cave!"

The subordinate quickly reported again.

Nozawa Nako gave the order: "Dig!"

Xiang Liu's people began to dig at the soft snow.

When Hao An saw this, he was so anxious: "Hurry up, we don't have enough time to return!"

Nozawa Nako was completely unmoved and asked her subordinates to dig. She turned to Hao An and said, "There is not enough time. We will speed up our journey when we return!"

She is not afraid of exhausting people to death!

After ten minutes.

The subordinate suddenly exclaimed: "This seems to be an artificial stone arch!"

Everyone took flashlights to shine.

A curved stone arch appeared in front of us, with only a door frame and no door. It was dark inside and nothing could be seen.

This place belongs to the rocks under the snow-capped mountains. Judging from the traces of construction, someone used the terrain to build a doorway from here. As for the wooden monk, it was originally inlaid on the lintel. The door opening and the wooden monk may have been buried due to heavy snow accumulation before, but it is estimated that the weather has been better recently and part of the snow has melted, and it is now revealed.

This kind of construction style with a wooden figure inlaid on the lintel is really the first time I have seen it.

"There are still words on the lintel!"

Professor He Yuan pulled away the snow on top and looked at it.

There are two lines of characters, which are crooked and do not look like Chinese characters or Tibetan characters.

Professor He Yuan was a little surprised: "It's actually Type A Tocharian!"

I think this old guy has quite a deep understanding of our culture.

Tocharian is an extinct palatial language in the Indo-European language family. It is a dead language in Central Asia. It was discovered in Kuqa, Yanqi and Turpan in the Tarim Basin at the beginning of the last century. There are many records in this language. religious, literary and medicinal texts. This writing is divided into three types, type A Tochar is called Yanqi language, type B Tochar is called Qiuci language, and type C is Tuhura is called Baluka language. All of them are difficult to understand characters, and it is very rare for people to know them. I asked: "What do you mean?"

Professor He Yuan pondered for a while and pointed to a line of words above: "These words probably mean the Holy Land for Lamas to Conquer Demons."

"The following line... I have a vague impression of it, but I can't translate it for a while."

Fatty Xiao asked: "So this wooden monk is actually a lama?"

Professor He Yuan nodded: "That should be right!"

Nozawa Nako said: "Zhu, Yu, you two go in and take a look!"

Two guys went in with flashlights.

Within a few minutes they came out looking very excited.

"Miss Nozawa, there is a big space inside, just like a bomb shelter!"

Nozawa Nako immediately turned around and asked: "Mr. Hao, can the cave avoid the heavy snow tonight and tomorrow?"

After hearing this, Hao An climbed to a high place next to him and took a look, then came down and said: "This Demon Cave is facing away from the wind and snow, and judging from the cave rock stone, it is dug according to the natural cave. It is very solid and sheltered from the wind." Snow is totally fine!”

Nozawa Nako was overjoyed: "It's true that I couldn't find anything even though I had worn iron shoes. It took no effort to get here! Let's rest inside tonight!"

Hao An replied: "Yes! But everything inside is unknown, so everyone must be careful!"

Hao An received a positive reply.

People started filing in with flashlights on.

There is nothing special in the first ten meters, and there are very few traces of artificial excavation.

Go forward again.

We arrived at the main space of the Demon-Conquering Cave.

The size of half a football field, there is a high stone platform about two meters high and five meters wide in the middle. There are traces of the statue of the god enshrined on the high platform, but the statue has disappeared, leaving only the foot of the statue.

There are even brightly colored murals preserved on the surrounding rock walls.

Because the rock wall is covered with a layer of ice, the murals are lifelike, with no color peeling off at all, as if they had just been painted.

There is a saying in the archaeological field: if it is dry for a thousand years, if it is wet for ten thousand years, if it is neither dry nor wet, it will last only half a year.

The main reason is that water can isolate oxygen and prevent the corrosion of cultural relics.

When the bamboo slips were discovered in the Yinqueshan Han Tomb, it was because there was water in the tomb that the bamboo slips were not corrupted.

Later, archaeological experts collected them and sorted them out.

Oh my god.

It turned out to be "The Art of War" that has been lost for thousands of years!
In fact, I think it’s appropriate to add another sentence: Snowy mountains have been frozen for tens of thousands of years.

If the snow-capped mountains can remain stable for a long time, the frozen cultural relics can span an extremely long time and space.

This is the case with the mural in front of you.

There are many murals.

The style is very Western, strong and unrestrained, and uses exaggerated techniques to express character characteristics.

We took a closer look at the contents of the petroglyphs.

Don't say it yet.

This is really a demon cave! (End of chapter)