I Built the Ancient Organization of Salvation

　　"Comrade Kozibayi, can you please show us the newly discovered grotto?" Professor Chen Shuo calmed down and asked politely.

　　The latter was a little stunned: "Are you in such a hurry? I also arranged a table of meals for you at the local villagers, ready to wash the dust for you."

　　Chen Shuo quickly waved his hand and said sincerely: "Comrade, we appreciate your kindness, but the task is important."

　　So, Kuozibayi took a group of people to the sandy plain.

　　In just four or five minutes' walk, they crossed the shelter of the villagers' houses and saw many grottoes dug along the mountain walls, and the surrounding mottled stone walls were full of traces of time.

　　Due to the strong wind, a line of white snow has accumulated at some cave entrances, like an extra row of "lower teeth".

　　Looking at this desolate land, a lonely village, and the quaint and silent sandy plain, Chen Shuo suddenly felt a little dazed.

　　He seemed to hear the slight sound of the camel stepping on the ground, the ancient tune of the leader calling for a break, and the noise of unloading and unloading goods.

　　The villages in the distance have been transformed into ancient styles, and there is an endless stream of business trips every day.

　　The monks built wooden frames, recited scriptures, dug grottoes with simple tools, and turned ink and paint into vivid stories with wonderful brushes, which have been passed down for thousands of years.

　　That was the bustling scene of Kershi Village as a node of the ancient Silk Road more than a thousand years ago.

　　Facing such an association, Chen Shuo suddenly felt a little strange.Archaeological exploration is to cross the barriers of time and space to find the truth of history in the fragmented evidence.

　　And today, he hit the road again.

　　"I hope everything goes well." Chen Shuo said to himself, and then quickly followed Kuozibayi.

　　Soon, everyone came to the east side of the sandy soil.

　　Looking around, I saw two grottoes with incomplete openings, side by side, supported by steel bars driven into the rock wall.

　　At this moment, there are two people on the scaffold wearing protective clothing, doing filling work, and the ground is full of spilled mortar.

　　All this makes it look more like a small construction site than an archaeological restoration site.

　　"The Mazarboha Grottoes are located in the sandy soil, and the geology is loose and cannot be preserved. This is why it is the most dilapidated. In order to prevent it from continuing to collapse, we added a steel frame to it."

　　Kozbayi explained.

　　Everyone walked up the simple ladder and stepped into the grotto, just as the sunset light slanted into the cave, and a golden reflection was reflected in everyone's eyes.

　　Chen Shuo turned his head to look and found that it was a mural painted with golden paint.

　　"According to our preliminary appraisal, these two grottoes should have been built [-] years ago, with an error of about [-] years."

　　"And the murals here are different from those before. I believe you will be surprised after careful study."

　　The mysterious Tao of Kuozibayi.

　　In fact, without him saying it, everyone has already discovered the problem.

　　The murals in the Mogao Grottoes and the Qiuci Grottoes are dense and small, colorful and colorful, like Buddhist-themed wallpapers, and equipped with stone carvings of normal proportions.

　　However, except for the peeling and collapsed parts, the rest of the walls are all flat, and there is no trace of a depression that has been dug out and placed Buddha statues.

　　In addition, most of the murals have giant statues, and the colors are simple and light, like the traditional red and blue paintings of the Yan Kingdom, more like grotto murals.

　　"According to our simple research in the past few days, it is determined that it was painted from the outside to the inside, depicting a series of deeds. And judging from the excavation traces, it seems that the manpower was limited at that time, and a single grotto would have to be completed over many years."

　　Kuozibayi explained to the crowd.

　　Chen Shuo and the others watched from the door, and the slightly younger clerk of the Investigation Bureau took pictures with a camera.

　　The first mural is basically complete, and the style of painting is obviously biased towards the realistic style of portraits and flowers and birds in ancient times of the Yan Kingdom.

　　What is depicted is a section of the city wall, where the white-haired soldiers draw their bows and arrows, but their eyes are looking neatly in another direction.

　　In front of them, there is a moat, a trench, and ancient war equipment such as chariots and flying ladders. The enemy soldiers are hiding in it, and the snow is scattered everywhere.

　　Farther away, there are many enemy troops waiting to fight.

　　"To be honest, it's the first time I've seen such a style of grotto murals. It's completely detached from Buddhist elements and purely records a battle for defending the city."

　　"It stands to reason that such a history should not be recorded in the county annals by the ancient government?" Someone asked suspiciously.

　　But no one answered him, because no one knows the answer now.

　　"Everyone, can you tell which battle this record is?" Chen Shuo asked.

　　"We have also studied this issue."

　　Kuozibayi shook his head and said, "We initially assumed that the contents of the murals were all realistic, and then prepared to judge the specific geographic location based on the reference above. But in the end, it failed because there was too little information."

　　"No, there is actually another way."

　　The oldest old man in the scientific expedition team, Professor Feng, raised his hand to point to the figures in the mural and explained, "Because the guards and soldiers turned their heads neatly to the upper right side, the painter completely presented the profile of their faces."

　　"Look."

　　Professor Feng's hands were separated by a few centimeters and walked along the lines of the soldiers' faces in the mural: "Have you found anything?"

　　This time, even Chen Shuo could see the taste, and tried to say: "From the depth of his eye sockets and the style of the bridge of his nose, he is basically similar to the people from the Central Plains of the Yan Kingdom."

　　"Yes." Professor Feng nodded and pushed off his presbyopic glasses: ""The History of the North? Khotan Biography" once recorded: 'From the west of Gaochang, people from various countries have deep eyes and high noses. Only in this country, the appearance is not very Hu, Kind of like China.'"

　　"So I judged that this should be Khotan, and by comparing the economic and architectural historical materials of the ancient Western Regions, the city of this scale depicted in the murals must be the King City of Khotan."

　　"Furthermore, through the armor and weapons used by the enemy soldiers, as well as the appearance of the prayer flags hanging in the tent, and comparing with the history of Khotan, it is obvious that the Tubo attacked the city."

　　"The King City of Khotan fell to the hands of the Tubos around 790 AD, so the scene depicted in the murals can only be before that."

　　"In addition, the defender of the city is in the style of Tang Jun 147, but the ordnance is worn out, and even the armor worn by the commander has traces of patchwork, indicating that materials were very scarce at that time. If this happens, it is only possible that the Anxi Protectorate is left alone. Domain Period."

　　"The king of Khotan at that time, who was also the main general, was Yuchi Yao. Even he had gray hair, and he was at least fifty or sixty years old, so the content of the mural should have occurred between 778 and 790."

　　When Professor Feng finished speaking calmly, the cave was silent for a while.

　　As the saying goes, as soon as an expert makes a move, he will know if there is any.It was just an understatement, and so much information was inferred from the mural, which shocked everyone.

　　"It seems that he is indeed a talented person in the history of the Tang and Song Dynasties!"

　　Chen Shuo was a little surprised, and immediately had a little more confidence in this mission, and said politely on the bright side: "Thank you Professor Feng for clarifying the confusion, let's continue to look down."

　　Professor Feng nodded: "Let's not say these polite words. It is my luck that my old bones are still a little hot."

　　People move.

　　The lower half of the next fresco has peeled off, but the upper half is still intact.

　　On the upper right, a group of white horses and silver armored knights rushed from the sky along with the smoke and dust.

　　Around the camp of the Tibetan army, a large number of soldiers knelt down neatly toward the center, and some tall people with tentacles drilled out of their backs held weapons and walked towards the white-horse silver-armored knights.

　　"This is……"

　　Chen Shuo's pupils shrank.

　　Kozibayi noticed his expression and explained: "We also find it strange about these people on the murals."

　　"For example, in the Mogao Grottoes, although there are also depictions of gods and Buddhas surrendering to demons, but such demons have never appeared."

　　He felt puzzled, but Chen Shuo didn't.

　　He had seen the internal documents of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, and Nam Goryeo once appeared in a human-shaped monster with tentacles on its head and back.

　　Eighty or ninety percent of the two are similar.

　　That is to say, in that battle, there were otherworldly monsters hidden in the Tubo army!

　　With the combat power of the ancient army, how could it resist the attack of monsters from other worlds? Could it be that Khotan was defeated like this?

　　.......

Chapter 218

　　Looking at this mural, Professor Feng's expression moved slightly.

　　He can be dispatched by the Anomaly Investigation Bureau to investigate the extraordinary power, of course, he has the right to know a lot of things, but there are still personnel from the Cultural Bureau, so it is hard to say much.

　　Everyone went inside, but what they saw made them stunned.

　　Because the murals inside cannot be considered "peeling", but even the walls collapsed a lot, leaving no murals at all.

　　Further back is the corner of the grotto, and there are some sporadic fragments on the wall facing the entrance of the cave.

　　"Such a precious cultural relic, unexpectedly..."

　　Professor Feng shook his head sadly.

　　Although he knew that this was not aimed at himself, Kuozibayi was still a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "When we found out, it was already like this."

　　And the doubts in his heart have never dissipated.

　　Although the number of the scientific expedition team in front of them is not large, the configuration is definitely the top of Blue Star.

　　The temperament of those burly men is not something that ordinary military police can have, and those with bulging waists are obviously carrying guns.

　　Furthermore, Professor Chen Shuo is famous in the world, he has long heard of it, and the analysis of Professor Feng just now made him understand that the rest of the experts in the team are equally powerful.

　　Such a strong and somewhat eccentric team has come to this unknown place, so solemn and anxious research, what kind of secrets are there?

　　"This is the end, we can only pick up the only remaining murals to look at." Chen Shuo said helplessly.

　　On the wall facing the entrance of the cave is the remnant of a giant painting, with a long city wall at the bottom and many standing soldiers.

　　Outside the moat, the ground is cracked, and the scope and width of the cracks are shocking.

　　You must know that the earth is not a brittle object like glass, and many cracks will appear when you hit it.In fact, even if the meteorite falls to the ground, there are more craters on the ground than cracks.

　　Such a scene of cracking on the ground is definitely not something that ordinary power can do!

　　But what made the people of the Investigation Bureau extremely uncomfortable was that the reason for the cracking of the earth, that is, the part of the mural on the upper side had completely disappeared, and only a small piece remained on the right, which was where the golden light was reflected.

　　Professor Feng hurriedly looked down and found that the pattern on the fragment was a small section of jet-black pillar with a half-width golden pattern on the end.

　　His brows suddenly wrinkled, and he turned his head to look at the portrait at the bottom, and found that in terms of proportions, the jet-black pillar was astonishingly large, about the size of five or six people lined up together.

　　"It's too big!"

　　Professor Feng said to himself.

　　Therefore, the engraved book is a speculation and discussion, so although Kuozibayi knew that his archaeological level was far worse than this group of people, he still actively guessed:

　　"I remember that in order to highlight the subject, the ancients would choose to sacrifice the strict proportional relationship and enlarge the subject to be represented."