Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 1523 Treasure
It was already past five o'clock in the morning. After they went out, they found that it was already bright outside.

There is still no one in the Gobi desert, and the yellow sand everywhere makes people feel claustrophobic as if they were thrown far away.

These two orcs have been living here alone. The old lady is claustrophobic all the year round. Apart from pretending to be a human being here to help collect tickets, the rest are in her own crazy hallucinations. She is probably already insane, so there is nothing to say .

But the old man was still able to communicate. He sent Chen Zhi out very respectfully all the way, paid respects at the door, prostrated himself on the ground, and sent Chen Zhi and others away respectfully.

Starting from the Thousand Buddha Caves, it takes more than half an hour to walk in the desert to reach the town.

Xiaomi took them this route before, and Fat Wei had already memorized this route in his mind, and he crossed the desert in less than 20 minutes.

When dialing Xiaomi's phone number, Xiaomi's response was very exciting.

It turned out that the little tour guide didn't sleep well all night. He was afraid that something happened to Chen Zhi and the others in the desert. He would not be able to explain it later. He wanted to go to them after dawn. Feeling overwhelmed, he said he would take them back to the city, eat and drink, and play with something new.

Chen Zhi told him no need, and asked him to help find a quiet homestay in Guazhou City. The more remote the location, the better, and then rent it out as a whole.

They want to study something, quietness is the first priority, and there is no need to arrange other affairs for the time being.

Although Xiaomi felt very strange, he didn't express any objection.

This errand for Chen Zhi and the others really saved money and worry for Xiaomi. Chen Zhi paid so much money, he didn't need to travel or explain, and it also saved him a lot of gas money.

So he quickly found an old homestay in the city of Guazhou.

It is said that it is an old homestay, but in fact it is just that the house is older, and the layout inside is quite new.

I don’t know in what lifetime the earthen building was built. It is as high as a two-story building with a courtyard, and the north and south are transparent. It is an obvious living habit of the Uighurs.

Xiaomi said that the head of the household does not live here often, but only rents out the rental house through an intermediary.

However, because of the remote location, there are not many tourists who come to live there on weekdays. The furnishings inside are very new, and it will be even cleaner after cleaning.

So Chen Zhi and the others moved in. Unexpectedly, the place is actually relatively clean. Regardless of the fact that it is located in Guazhou, the decoration in this house is actually similar to modern aesthetics.

It's just that there are more tapestries on the walls, which have the atmosphere of ethnic minorities' life.

Surprisingly, there are several computers in the room, all working well, and a very good network, they work directly from here, no problem.

Because this house has more rooms and Xiaomi is also very enthusiastic, Chen Zhi is not in a hurry to let the little tour guide leave.

They also brought two scientific researchers with them. They have nothing to do when they are free on weekdays, so they let this little tour guide live here and show them around the surrounding scenery.

In the next few days, they integrated the set of "Holy Buddha's Transformation Scroll" saved in Pangwei's mobile phone into the computer, and then zoomed in and analyzed it in detail.

It seems that the two old orcs really didn't talk nonsense. This giant painting called "The Scroll of the Holy Buddha's Transformation" really has a hidden world inside, and it can be stored infinitely!

If it is said that Xuanzang's Tang Dynasty Records of the Western Regions is a set of text-based records, and this mural is a set of visual feasts. It is full of many scenes in the ancient Western Regions, and there are many magical things in them. The modern world is full of shocking discoveries.

But this set of wall paintings is more realistic than "The Story of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty".

There is no need to think too much about the world of orcs. This mural was not created with human thinking, and there is no need to take into account any political and moral constraints.

And there are many subtle paintings in this mural, which is even more amazing after zooming in.

The content contained in the picture is rich and exciting, and there is a detailed description of every region visited on the westbound road.

Including the local customs, meteorological real estate, and even the crops and flowers grown locally are recorded.

Unfortunately, however, the most important words of the record are used on it, but they cannot be discerned.

This ancient Sogdian language has long been lost in human language records because of its lack of circulation and outside the frontiers, and it is useless to find experts to identify it.

In this whole mural, the most important part is the part of Gaochang Kingdom.

When you zoom in carefully, you can see that King Gaochang's worried expression is very obvious. No matter his face or movements, he can feel his heart is heavy.

This style of painting is very weird, it doesn't pay much attention to facial features, and it doesn't pay attention to realism, but the description of expression is very accurate.

It is not clear from this picture scroll what kind of person King Gaochang looked like.

You can only see him wearing a cloth-covered head crown common to people in the ancient Western Regions, which is inlaid with jewels, feathers and other ornaments.

But when you look at it with a magnifying glass, you can see behind him, the subjects and concubines painted by the micro-painting method, as well as the buildings and vegetation in Gaochang at that time.

From these descriptions, we can see that the Gaochang Kingdom at that time was very beautiful. It should be a rare oasis on the Silk Road. In the oasis, there are lingering green trees, clear spring water, full of fresh melons and fruits, and the people live a happy life.

However, King Gaochang frowned, and his face was very sad. He held the monkey man's hand tightly with one hand, as if saying goodbye to him, but he didn't want to let him go.

But the other hand was tightly clenched, as if holding something in the palm of his hand, shining in his eyes,

And in the blank space of that position in the picture, there are full of words, describing this scene.

It can be seen that something must have happened at that time, and it was related to King Gaochang and Xuanzang's master and apprentice.

This matter must be very important, so it was specially recorded.

If these Sogdian characters can be translated, it is estimated that the secret hidden here will be discovered...

"It would be nice to know the meaning of these ancient Sogdian words!",
Chen Zhi looked at those tiny words and said softly,
"More than 1300 years ago, what did this monkey man promise to King Gaochang?
There must be something we don't know about..."

(End of this chapter)