"Mural?"
The Partridge Whistle is still hesitant.
Hearing this, his eyes couldn't help but brighten, and he subconsciously followed the sound.
At some point, Chen Yulou crossed the sarcophagus and approached the deepest part of the stone chamber.
Firelight flickered on the wall.
But the darkness there was so thick that it was difficult to see clearly, and it was easy to miss.
Looking intently at this moment, in the dim light, a thick and colorful shadow wall faintly emerged.
Seeing this situation, Partridge Whistle dared to think wildly. He pushed the coffin lid back and sealed it tightly. Then he took off the phosphorus tube and strode towards Chen Yulou.
On the bottom wall of the stone chamber.
There are six or seven colorful paintings scattered in different parts.
Because it has been sealed in dust for thousands of years and no one has set foot on it, the colored ink has not been damaged at all.
Compared with what I saw before in the altar under the ancient city of Xiye, it is much better preserved.
The painter's skills are also much higher, and the composition is exquisite. Often, with just a few strokes, the characters in the painting can be expressed extremely vividly, lifelike and vividly.
A brief look at it.
Partridge Whistle was attracted by the contents of the mural.
However, after reading the first three pictures, he couldn't hide his surprise and couldn't help but look back at the sarcophagus several times.
The appearance of the camel button gold seal before.
Let him think that the owner of the tomb here is the Lord of Gumo.
But judging from the murals, this is not necessarily the case. To be precise, it should be Prince Gumo, known as the Son of the Sun, the God of War in the Western Regions, and the most heroic and proficient warrior in the Thirty-Six Ancient Kingdoms.
The mural also uses large-scale brushwork to focus on depicting his military power.
He has shown extraordinary bravery since he was a child.
Learning the art of bow and horse at the age of five.
When he was nine years old, he hunted back a Tianshan snow wolf alone, shocking the entire tribe.
At the age of thirteen, he commanded the army and wiped out four bandits.
In the next few years, he fought everywhere and almost never lost. Although he was a prince, he was no different from the king.
In just a few years, he has gained such a great reputation among the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions that almost everyone knows about him.
In the mural, he rides a white horse and wears iron armor. He is high-spirited and outstanding in martial arts. He can raise his arms and shout, and he can be followed by a cloud of followers!
But starting from the fourth painting, the style of painting began to change.
Although Prince Gumo has outstanding military exploits, the Gumo Kingdom is an elite subordinate and is oppressed. Every year, he must pay tribute in large quantities of gold, silver, jade, and cattle and sheep slaves.
He was unwilling to do so, and went to the ancient city of Jingjue several times, trying to ask the king to grant his subjects freedom, but unfortunately, from beginning to end, he did not even see the face of King Jingjue.
Therefore, Prince Gumo resolutely decided to go and assassinate him.
When the eyes scanned the fifty-sixth scroll.
When looking at the veiled woman with an indifferent expression on the throne.
Partridge Whistle couldn’t help but jump heavily at the corners of his eyes.
The woman in the painting is exactly the same as the queen they saw in the altar of Xiye Ancient City that day.
"So... the woman who unified all the countries in the Western Region is Queen Jingjue?!"
There seemed to be thunder falling in his mind.
All the doubts and confusions that day were all cleared up at this moment.
“It’s interesting to look at this last one.”
Listening to his murmur of exclamation, Chen Yulou did not respond, but pointed in front of him with a meaningful smile. road.
"What?"
Partridge Whistle raised his eyebrows and raised the phosphorus tube in his hand.
Although the firelight is no longer as blazing as before, it can still clearly reflect the huge colorful scroll.
Looking at it carefully, there are two stories narrated in the scroll.
The former is about Prince Gumo sneaking into the ancient city of Jingjue to assassinate him.
The prince was seen hiding in the shadow of the stone pillar, and the warriors accompanying him had already broken into the throne room with their swords in hand.
The queen, who has always been veiled, rarely shows her back this time.
Looking at the assassin in front of her, she did not show the slightest panic. She just gently lifted the veil, and then the warrior assassin of the Gumo Kingdom...disappeared.
That’s right.
Just disappear into thin air.
Just like the raindrops falling into the river or the mist under the scorching sun, they are evaporated.
“How could it be?”
Partridge Whistle frowned, with disbelief written all over his face.
A living person.
Just lifted the veil and glanced at him, and then the whole thing was gone?
Even though he had seen countless weird things, the scene before him was still beyond his comprehension.
Witchcraft?
Or the devil’s method?
At least the methods he has seen absolutely cannot do this.
"Brother Chen, what...what's going on?"
After taking a few deep breaths, Partridge Whistle didn't bother to read the content of the second half of the article, he just felt confused and confused.
“Pay attention to her eyes.”
Chen Yulou did not look back, but reached out and crossed the mysterious female figure.
Although it is just a profile.
But under the veil, you can still see the tip of the iceberg.
The queen's eyes... were as dark as ink, endlessly deep, with no white of them at all, as if they were embedded with two black jade beads, and there was a sense of cunning snake movement.
Partridge Whistle only glanced at it.
For a moment, the whole person felt a sense of horror that he was trapped in it and it was difficult to escape.
Countless images flashed before my eyes.
Someone whispered in my ear.
In the end, the picture was frozen, and the whisper in my ears condensed into four simple words.
"Jade Eyeball!!"
When he saw the jade eyeball under the altar that day, he recognized it. It was clearly the Muchen Bead imitated by the ancestors of the ancient Zagrama line. Become.
“Brother Dao also saw it.”
Seeing him tell the truth, Chen Yulou slowly turned around.
"Do you still remember the rumors recorded in the murals in the ancient city of Xiye?"
"The queen made a deal with the gods, gained boundless mana, and has since swept through the countries in the Western Regions."
"This so-called Could the magic power be her demonic eyes? "
Chen Yulou's voice was not loud.
But it seems to contain a tension that can penetrate people's hearts.
"Demon Eyes..."
Simple two words.
It’s like a pair of invisible hands pushing away the clouds and mist.
Yes.
In all the murals I saw along the way, the queen never showed her true face. Even the most beautiful woman in the thirty-six countries of the Western Region would not do this.
So, she must be hiding something.
Or it must be so.
Because she cannot control the power in her eyes, if it is revealed at will, it will bring unimaginable disasters.
"...Eyes again!"
The giant-eyed black snake, the queen's demonic pupils, and the red-spotted ghost curse that reappeared on the back of the neck after entering the Western Region.
All kinds, everything.
All are inextricably linked to the eyeballs and cannot be separated.
But what exactly it is, Partridge Whistle cannot guess at all.
In ancient times, the prophet's eyes suddenly died in order to find out the truth. The sage also paid the price with his life before he divined the words "Muchen Pearl".
Thousands of years later.
The tribesmen have been on the way to pursue it.
Now, although he has had it for a long time, he is still unable to pry into it.
The only thing that can be confirmed is.
Although Muchen Bead is also known as Phoenix Dangers, it has nothing to do with the Phoenix.
It should be the eyes of some unknown existence.
A great demon, a devil or a legendary god?
Other than that, he could not think of anything that could affect it for thousands of years without being used up. "Brother Chen, what era is this exquisite ancient country in?"
Finally freed from distracting thoughts, Partridge Whistle suddenly thought of an extremely important question that he had ignored. .
Among the Zagrama tribe, there is no record at all about the Jingjue, Xiye and Gumo kingdoms.
They are both indigenous people in this desert.
He wanted to know what happened to his family members after they left.
“From those ancient artifacts and utensils, as well as the murals.”
“Jingjue probably existed between the Western Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.”
The second half of the last mural Volume, tells the story of Prince Gumo uniting the countries in the Western Regions to attack the queen, and finally broke the city, causing the ancient kingdom of Jingjue to perish.
And the golden bead they got from the treasure-stealing team before.
The timeline extends to the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
So the ending with Three Kingdoms is also deduced from this.
"The Two Han and Three Kingdoms... no wonder."
The Partridge Whistle nodded and then understood.
The prophets and saints appeared before the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
It is too far away from this.
It was two thousand years after their pulse that Queen Jingjue appeared in the Western Region.
“Brother Dao, there’s no need to worry, at least we’ve got enough information for now, right?”
Noticing the change in his mood, Chen Yulou comforted him softly.
The road seems chaotic.
But in fact, every step taken points to the ancient city of Jingjue, the Samsara Sect, the Snowy Demon Country, the Ghost Cave and the Snake God.
An invisible gray line runs throughout.
When you get under the holy mountain and enter the ghost cave through the ancient city, everything will naturally come to light.
Right now, they are walking in the vast and endless desert, just like the darkness passing by and ushering in the dawn.
"Yes."
Partridge Whistle breathed out.
Raising his head, his frowning eyebrows relaxed, and the confusion in his eyes gradually dissipated.
Their family has been waiting for thousands of years.
Why are there so many extra days?
"Then what's next?"
My eyes glanced at the last part of the ink mural.
The Partridge Whistle looked around again.
The stone chamber has come to an end now, and there is no more secret door or tunnel.
“We still have to go and see the well water.”
Chen Yulou shook his head and smiled.
The real purpose of their trip was not to share the tomb of Prince Gumo, but to visit the ancient well.
In the blink of an eye, we have been staying for almost half a quarter of an hour.
If you delay any longer.
With the characters of Kunlun, Guaizi and the old foreigner, I am afraid they will be chased down.
"I almost forgot about this."
Partridge Whistle slapped his forehead, and there was a bit more smile on his usually stern face.
Without any further delay, the two of them carried the lamp over the bones everywhere, and passed through three stone doors in succession. The dry air was suddenly covered with cold and moist air.
Pulling the rope, Chen Yulou jumped forward to break through the persistent fog in the ancient well. A golden light floated in the depths of his eyes. In less than a moment, an overwhelming wave of water vapor came towards him.
Wrap your wrists and step on the water with your toes.
The falling energy dissipated instantly.
The whole person was suspended above the well water.
The partridge whistle was not slow, and there was only a clear sound of the machine deactivating above the head. It should be that the digger was used to climb the mountain. Sure enough, the next moment, others were like a gecko clinging to everyone. It's moss, green moss, slippery and heavy well walls.
Pinch a lit fire stick and throw it to the bottom of the well.
The fire split the fog.
A deep pool of water appeared in their sight.
The bottom of the well is much larger than they imagined.
The biting-cold underground river water flows slowly from a distance. This happens to be an underground river bay, and the flowing water gathers to form a deep pool.
“It’s okay if it’s living water.”
Chen Yulou picked up a handful of well water, and spiritual energy poured into the water, but there was no reaction.
If there really was a black snake lurking inside and injecting venom, this would never be the case.
Open your fingers, and the clear river water flows away from your fingers.
He also took advantage of the situation and released two rays of spiritual consciousness. From the deep pool under the well as the center, they went upstream and followed the water.
The underground river is long and narrow, stretching endlessly.
Until his spiritual consciousness dissipated and disappeared beyond the farthest detection range, he could not find the source.
but.
The good news is.
No smell of black snake was found in the underground river.
Seeing that he breathed a sigh of relief and looked away, Partridge Whistle couldn't help but ask.
“Is it the Zidu Anhe River?”
"It should be."
Chen Yulou nodded.
This underground river, described by the ancient Uighurs as elusive as a shadow, is indeed astonishing. It originates from the top of the Kunlun Mountains, crosses the entire Black Desert, and finally merges into the Tarim River.
Fortunately, they had Oona leading the way and were able to accurately find the ruins of Gumozhou in the vast black desert.
Not so.
Rushing into this god-forsaken place.
There is a high probability that they will be the ancient corpses they saw along the way.
Lost in direction, he eventually ran out of dry food and water and died.
Now that we have a rough idea of the direction of the Zidu Anhe River, we wonder if our spiritual consciousness can penetrate the sand dunes and find traces.
If that didn't work out, he fused the water-dividing beads of the blue-scaled python and gained some ability to detect water veins.
You can try it when you go back up.
"Brother Taoist, let's go!"
After exploring this point, there is no need to do any other work. Chen Yulou called out and urged the magic to move. People were like blue smoke, stepping on the wall of the well. Jump up.
"Okay."
The partridge sentry took the lead.
He put away the phosphorus tube again, and then he patted the left side of his abdomen. He heard the sound of a machine amplifier starting up, and six or seven barbs made of fine steel were shot out like a rainstorm.
Plunge into the gap between the well walls accurately.
The others were like a dragonfly touching the water, stepping lightly on the pool with their toes, and taking advantage of the shock on the water, they jumped up.
"There is movement..."
Huamaguai, who was guarding the mouth of the well, half-crouched on the ground, feeling the movement coming from the two sky-drilling cables, and his eyes couldn't help but light up. , exclaimed happily.
"Here we come, get out of the way."
The old foreigner looked down. Although it was pitch dark underground and he couldn't see clearly, he could figure it out from the frequency of the rope's trembling.
Immediately grabbed Huamaguai's shoulders and pulled him back a few steps.
It was almost the moment when the three of them stood.
Two figures, one behind the other, have rushed out of the well.
"Shopkeeper, Chief Yang, how are you? Why have you been gone for so long?"
Seeing that the two of them were safe and sound, several people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"The well is connected to an underground river. The water is non-toxic and can be used, but..." Chen Yulou smiled, "There is an ancient tomb underneath, so it was delayed a lot of time."
"Ancient tomb under the well?"
Hua Maguai's eyes widened when he heard that there was a fight.
Along the way today, it seemed like I dug a lot of stone tombs, but I couldn't find any valuable artifacts at all. It was almost a waste of effort.
I didn’t expect that the two shopkeepers would encounter a big fight when they went down the well to check the water source. This luck was unparalleled.
Of course it’s Da Dou.
Otherwise, from the perspective of the shopkeeper and Leader Yang, ordinary tombs would not be considered at all, not to mention that it has been delayed for so long.
"Okay, I know what you want to ask, let's talk about it slowly when we get to the camp." (End of Chapter)