Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 17 36 Countries in the Western Regions
"What is this?" Seeing his excited look, everyone asked one after another.

Unexpectedly, Hawkeye shook his head to express that he didn't know, he just felt that the symbol on it seemed to have been seen somewhere before, which made everyone look at a loss.

I glanced at the stone, and some symbols were neatly engraved on it, which looked a bit like some ethnic characters in Xinjiang.

"Isn't this the word of a minority group? There's nothing to make a fuss about." Company Commander Chen didn't care, and waved his hand to tell everyone to go back and wait.

Hawkeye said unconvinced that he had been a ten-year soldier in Bayingoleng, not to mention that he knew the characters here, but he still recognized the appearance, and these symbols were only similar in appearance.

"Let me see."

Originally, Lao Yan was squatting at the back to study the body of the sandworm, but now he rushed up, put on gloves and studied it carefully with a magnifying glass.

Looking at his posture, we all knew not to disturb him, so we just swayed casually. I sat on the ground after swaying for 2 minutes because of my leg injury, and looked up just right at the corpse of the sandworm.

"What did Lao Yan do with this?" Seeing the sandworm that swallowed the milk baby and almost crippled my leg, I hated it from the bottom of my heart.

Company Commander Chen explained with a smile that this thing is an extinct creature after all, and Lao Yan, who has been dealing with ancient things all his life, will naturally not let it go, so he probably has to pretend to go back and do research.

I shook my head and said, does it stink after putting it back on?

"At best, he can take a photo and bring a skeleton back. Anyway, he has his own way, so don't worry about it." Company Commander Chen shrugged, and then said in a low voice, "Don't make do with him, boy."

"Why?" I looked up blankly.

"He's not a bad guy, their department..." Company Commander Chen's voice was lowered, almost covered by the howling wind outside. If he hadn't leaned close to my ear, I really wouldn't have heard what he said.

"Come here quickly!"

Before he finished speaking, Lao Yan suddenly shouted.

We rushed over to ask him if he found anything, he nodded, his expression was a little inexplicable and he couldn't tell, but it seems that this should be the relic of an ancient country in the Western Regions.

"An ancient country in the Western Regions?"

We were all shocked. The ancient countries of the Western Regions now refer to the area west of Yumen Pass. When Zhang Qian was sent to the Western Regions, there are 36 ancient countries in Xinjiang today.Among them, Loulan Kingdom should be the most well-known. The mystery of Loulan's disappearance overnight has not been fully solved yet.

You must know that the discovery of every ancient country will shock the whole country, so we have come across it like this?
"It's the fault here." Lao Yan shook his head slightly: "I have studied the characters of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, and none of them match the characters on this tombstone, but judging from its approximate age and the style of the carving It is indeed a relic of an ancient country in the Western Regions."

I smashed and smashed my mouth, and then I realized: "You said this is a tombstone? Then we are in someone else's grave now?"

Everyone was taken aback by me and told me not to talk nonsense, but Lao Yan nodded, saying that he could probably guess a few of the words on it, at least he would not mistake the word "grave".

"Look again, is there anything else besides this tombstone?" Lao Yan ordered, and took out a seagull camera to click on the tombstone.

"There seems to be something on this wall..."

I turned around and found nothing, so I leaned against the wall, but as soon as I leaned up, Hawkeye pulled me away, pointing at the place I just leaned over.

I turned around and saw that the wall had been standing for an unknown number of years. The wall was covered with thick dust. I leaned on it and shook off the dust, revealing a palm-sized thing that looked like watercolor.

Hawkeye excitedly picked it up.

"do not move!"

Lao Yan yelled abruptly, Hawkeye was so frightened that he trembled, he accidentally used too much strength in his hand, and he pulled down a wall the size of a brick.

Lao Yan stared at Hawkeye, that look wished to eat him.

Hawkeye hid the wall behind him like he was stealing the bell: "That, that, I didn't do it on purpose."

"What a waste!" Lao Yan pulled out the wall from Hawkeye's hand in pain, and rubbed it non-stop.

Hawkeye rubbed his hands in embarrassment, wanted to say something but was pushed aside by Lao Yan, and then saw the latter take out a brush from his bag and slowly and carefully brush the wall inch by inch.

With his movements, a mural slowly appeared in our sight.

This mural is very strange. A beautiful woman is sitting on a gorgeous throne wearing a black veil, and a man kneeling under the throne is holding up her little white feet, with a string of golden bells hanging on them.

The man raised his head slightly, but his gaze remained downward, with a respectful and satisfied expression...

Lao Yan is still painting, the entire wall is full of murals, there are five of them!

The second picture is the kneeling man just now. He stands in front of the window, and there is a silhouette on the window, which is obviously the queen in the first picture.

The next two pictures are similar to the second picture, which seem to mean protecting women.

However, the style of the fifth painting suddenly changed. It depicts a war. The man is beside the woman, with a pitiful look on his face. Chenghe, the mouth under the veil actually evoked a weird smile.

"What is this?" I murmured.

Lao Yan read it slowly, and said that the man buried here is probably the man in the painting. He should be the queen's guardian or something, but in the end he had a disagreement with the queen. As for what happened after the disagreement, he has no way of knowing... …

After studying for a while, everyone gradually lost interest. After all, with such a little information, there is no way to know what country it is. Only Lao Yan is still in high spirits. Pen.

Company Commander Chen came over to let me rest, and said that the sandstorm might not stop for a while, and seeing Lao Yan like this, he estimated that he would stay here for a while.

I remembered what he hadn't finished before, so I asked, "What department did you say Laoyan belonged to?"

I always thought that Lao Yan was sent down from above, at most it was a cadre in Beijing, but what Company Commander Chen said before, it seemed that there was something wrong.

Company Commander Chen was silent for a long time before he exhaled: "Forget it, anyway, you should stay away from him."

"Oh." I glanced at Lao Yan who was still studying the murals, responded casually, and fell asleep.

I woke up suffocated by urine. When I woke up, it was already dark outside, and the whistling wind disappeared. It seemed that the sandstorm had stopped.

I stepped out of the wall, solved my physical problems not far from the base of the wall, and looked around the entire cemetery.

I was pulled in yesterday, and now I can see the location of the wall, and I suddenly sighed that we were really lucky yesterday!
The wall we drilled into was only a small part exposed, and there was a stone mountain behind it. The surface of the mountain was weathered and potholed, and it looked crumbling.

Looking at it like this, the exposed wall might have been blown out by the sandstorm.

It's just that this position doesn't seem quite right!

I looked at the stone mountain, and then looked at the direction facing the stone mountain. What caught my eye was a dry river bed extending far away. Looking at this direction, if there was water, the river would probably affect the entire cemetery.

I frowned, and entered the wall to greet everyone to leave quickly.

"What's wrong?" Company Commander Chen asked.

(End of this chapter)