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Chapter 819 The Legendary Man

Neither the Tang Dynasty nor the Tubo soldiers destroyed the stone wall outside, which means that they did not allow their own people to enter again.

Although I don't know what the purpose is, these unlucky guys obviously sneaked in secretly.

And their results also confirmed that the outsiders were right to block this place.

It may be that he had been dead for too long, but Chen Ke did not find any cause of death from the bones. There were five bones inside and out.

Of course, this was not a problem for Ji Han and the others, they just subconsciously became more careful.

Continuing along this road, there is a long tunnel. At the beginning, it was as rough as the outside, but after walking forward for tens of meters, simple reliefs began to appear on the stone walls on both sides.

Chen Ke was most interested in these, and immediately got closer to study them.

Eggplant vaguely felt that the inside was not very clean, and urged him to act quickly.

"Don't worry, brother eggplant, maybe you can tell who the former owner of this place is."

"What? After making the judgment, you still want to chat with him? Say we have nothing to do, just go to someone's house to get a treasure?"

Chen Ke didn't care about Eggplant's joke, anyway, he knew that although he complained, he was always careful about his surroundings.

Although Ji Han did not study these simple relief murals as well as Chen Ke did, he could still get a rough idea.

The initial reliefs seem to be pictures of a very high-status figure traveling surrounded by crowds. Although the lines of the surrounding mountains and lakes are simple, they look very clear.

And because there are more carvings on this side of the relief, it is not clear what kind of image the people surrounded in the center are.

At this moment, Chen Ke was staring at the second relief, which seemed to be a banquet.

The place where the banquet took place seemed to be next to a lake on a high mountain, and the content of the relief was still very detailed, Ji Han could even see the fruit plate on the table.

Although the two people sitting on the front seats at the banquet could not be seen clearly, they could roughly be judged to be a man and a woman.

Chen Ke looked at the relief and wondered:

"Brother Ji, do you feel that this painting is very familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere, but it's not the original version I saw, it's the feeling that I can't put it into words."

Indeed, as Chen Ke said, Ji Han also felt the same way.

I seem to have seen the scene described in the painting, so it is not the original version, but the content should be similar.

Eggplant didn't know what the three of them were staring at at the relief on the wall, so they also came over.

Seeing this picture of the banquet, Eggplant joked:

"I thought you guys found the real "Mona Lisa" here, but it turned out to be a painting of flat peaches from "Journey to the West."

The eggplant was originally just a joke. After all, such a very simple-looking painting, coupled with the fruit plate full of peaches engraved on the table, really reminded me of the simple illustrations in the old Journey to the West books I saw when I was young.

And Chen Ke, Ji Han and Song Qian also reacted instantly.

That's right, it's the Peach Club in Journey to the West!

It may be because the scene here is so unreminiscent of "Journey to the West", the three of them didn't think of it for a while.

Chen Ke replied:

"That's right! That's right, it's "Journey to the West"! I remembered! It's the scene of the Peach Festival."

If the two protagonists who cannot be seen clearly in the relief are regarded as the Queen Mother and the Jade Emperor, then they are indeed consistent with the Pantaohui.

The third stone carving is not the same as the previous one. It is a scene of a woman wearing a tiger-head mask watching the army and horses leave.

Eggplant scratched his head and said:

"The content of this relief seems to be a bit out of order?"

But Chen Ke shook his head and said:

"No, it can be connected. If the content on this relief is correct, I seem to be able to guess who might live here."

Although Ji Han didn't connect them completely, he had some clues and guessed:

"You don't mean the Queen Mother of the West, do you?"

Seeing Chen Ke nodded, Song Qian questioned:

"How is this possible? According to myths and legends, the Queen Mother of the West lived on Kunlun Mountain, and here is Tianshan Mountain. Not to mention the reality, even the myth does not match."

Chen Ke explained:

"No, the original text of "Shan Hai Jing" once recorded: "Although the Queen Mother of the West uses Kunlun as her palace, she also has her own caves from the palace, a place to rest, and does not only live in one mountain." In other words, the place where the Queen Mother of the West lives is not There is no fixed place.

So in fact, Yaochi does not specifically refer to Kunlun Mountain, and the Kunlun Mountain recorded at that time is different from the Kunlun Mountain that is said now. Besides, according to the actual situation, Tianshan Mountain is more reasonable.

Because the Queen Mother of the West is also a deified female tribe or civilization leader with high probability, and the altitude of Kunlun Mountain determines that there cannot be any gathering population in the area, but there is no problem here in Tianshan, so many scholars also think Tianchi in Tianshan It is the fairyland of Yaochi in myths and legends. "

Eggplant puzzled and said:

"But even so, how can you confirm that the girl on the relief is the Queen Mother of the West?"

Chen Ke pointed to the third painting and said:

"First, according to legend, the Queen Mother of China and the West is depicted in the "Shan Hai Jing" with disheveled hair, tiger-like sharp teeth, and a leopard-like tail behind her. Great God, but if you take off the cloak of myth and analyze it.

The Queen Mother of the West should be the leader of the matriarchal society of the western tribes that have not yet fully civilized. The image in the myths and legends is probably just because of the mask that increases the sense of mystery. Just like the third mural, look carefully, this A masked woman also has a tail behind her. "

Eggplant still does not forget to joke at this moment:

"Good guy, I thought it was people from that era who were already playing so well."

Chen Ke continued to explain:

"The last piece of evidence is the content of this relief. According to historical legends, there was only one army sent away by the Queen Mother of the West, and that was King Mu of Zhou who was patrolling the west. Both "Historical Records" and "Biography of Emperor Mu" recorded King Mu of Zhou's travels. Going to the west, I met the goddess-like Queen Mother of the West and stayed here for a long time and refused to leave. It is said that the two have a love story, but that is not easy to tell.

So these three reliefs show the scene where the Queen Mother of the West leads the place, entertains King Mu of Zhou in Yaochi, and sends King Mu of Zhou away. If there is no accident, this may be the Queen Mother of the West's territory. "

After listening to the eggplant, he shrugged and said:

"That's a good thing, go in and ask her old man to see if there are any flat peaches. I also want to suffer from immortality."

But as soon as the words fell, the four of them heard the sound of the remaining stone wall collapsing behind them.

8 Chapter Twenty

Hearing that half of the wall was knocked down when they came in, Ji Han and the other four also became alert instantly, and they took flashlights to shine behind them, but they didn't see any living things.

Chen Ke asked:

"Brother Egg, can't you see anything with your clairvoyant eyes?"

"You are my brother, I am clairvoyant, not his mother's night vision, and I can't see clearly in the dark, but I really didn't hear any other sounds except for the collapse of the wall just now, maybe it was the wall that was just kicked away The body was not stable enough to collapse.”

Although Ji Han also found it hard to believe that the wall that hadn't been completely kicked away collapsed by itself, but there is really no need to look back now.

The reliefs on the wall do show that this may be the territory of the Queen Mother of the West, but even according to the records of the "Shan Hai Jing", there should be more than one foothold of the Queen Mother of the West.

Song Qian asked:

"According to this, we don't know whether what we will see next is the tomb of Queen Mother Xi or the underground space of their tribe?"

Chen Ke recorded the relief carved on the wall and replied:

"To be honest, I feel that the probability of the tomb is higher, because the reliefs on the wall are obviously the life of the characters. Let's go, there are many people who have obtained the panacea from the Queen Mother of the West in myths and legends. We may also try our luck. .”

Chen Ke has always been more interested in these myths and legends, Ji Han reminded:

"To figure out our purpose this time, the main thing is to get the time ring. There are still so many people rushing here outside. If we delay for too long, we don't know what will happen outside."

The four of them continued along the tunnel, and after a short walk, under the light of the flashlight, a figure appeared in the darkness ahead.

Ji Han and the others subconsciously spread out left and right to concentrate the light, only to find that the person stood motionless in front of him.

It wasn't until I got closer that I realized that it was a stone man standing in the center of the tunnel, which was the same height as an ordinary person.

Even though restricted by the technical conditions at that time, the carving of the stone man was not particularly detailed, but it was enough for everyone to recognize that the sculpture was a slender woman.

There is a stele standing in front of the stone-carved woman, and one can clearly see what was supposed to be restrained on it, but it has been destroyed at this time, and the front looks bumpy.

Ji Han tried to use the electronic fluctuation reading method, but he couldn't read any effective information from it.

Chen Ke wanted to try again, but was stopped by Eggplant:

"Forget it, I don't need to restore it to know, the engraving should be something like grave robbers must die or non-clan people are forbidden to enter."

However, they didn't encounter any traps along the way, and the four felt a little more at ease.

After all, the Queen Mother of the West is too long ago, and it is basically impossible to keep the traps of that time until now.

There was darkness behind the stone carving woman again. Song Qian threw out the lighting stick, and the bright stick drew a long and graceful arc in the air before landing.

The only light can't even see the edges of the surrounding walls, judging by the echo Ji Han:

"It looks like another huge underground space."

As soon as Eggplant finished speaking, he fired another flare. Even though Eggplant had tried to raise the launching route as much as possible, the situation in this huge space was not completely clear until the lighting egg was completely exploded.

Seeing the scene in front of them, Ji Han and the others couldn't help opening their mouths.

In front of him was a huge semi-cylindrical space embedded in the ground, like an air-raid shelter. Ji Han couldn't imagine how such a space could be excavated without large machines in the Queen Mother of the West era.

Unless this place is naturally formed, and the people of the Queen Mother of the West have only carried out a simple transformation on this place.

But what surprised Ji Han and the others most was not the huge space in front of them, but the content inside.

I saw fruit trees as tall as two people growing on the ground as far as the eye could see in the space.

These underground trees didn't seem to wither and die because they couldn't see the sun, but they were all covered with huge fruits.

If it is not in the ground, but on the mountain, then it looks like an orchard that is about to harvest.

But it seemed too abnormal for all this to appear underground.

Ji Han took a flashlight to shine on the nearby fruit trees. Although there were few leaves on them, the trunk looked solid and healthy. Hanging on the trees were huge peaches like jade carvings.

All of them are even, plump, round and complete. It looks like a peach garden carefully cut by someone, but no one has been here for at least hundreds of years.

It stands to reason that Ji Han and the others have seen quite a few terrifying scenes. The reason why they were shocked by the scene in front of them was mainly because they saw the peach forest in front of them and remembered the judgment of the Queen Mother of the West that Chen Ke had just drawn from the relief on the wall. The four of Ji Han thought of one thing at the same time.

Song Qian couldn't believe it and said:

"Couldn't these be the flat peaches planted by the Queen Mother of China and the West?"

Even Ji Han remembered what he read in "Journey to the West" when he was a child. There are 3000 flat peach trees, the youngest is 6000, and they ripen once in 9000 years. People who eat them become immortals, and their bodies are light; The [-] trees in the middle, once ripened in [-] years, people eat Xiaju and fly, and they will live forever; the last [-] trees, ripened in [-] years, people eat them to live as long as the sky and the earth, and the sun and the moon.

And these peach trees that violate the growth law and grow on the land of the Queen Mother of the West, it is hard not to remind people of the plot inside.

Chen Ke was not completely led by myths and legends at the moment, and analyzed:

"It may look like some kind of underground plant similar to a peach tree. Not to mention, this fruit is really attractive. I always think that most of the myths and legends are outdated truths. Maybe the prototype of the flat peach in the myths and legends is derived from Not sure about this.

It's just that I'm also curious about whether the fruit grown here can be eaten. Although it's too dangerous to eat, I think it's okay to take a few back for research. "

Equally astonished, Eggplant became alert and reminded:

"Not to mention, it really looks like a flat peach forest, but let's not try it lightly. If this is just an underground orchard, those people don't need to seal it up, and those unlucky ones won't die outside."

Chen Ke also held back his curiosity and did not pick those peaches.

Ji Han took out the space-time compass again, and the marks on it showed that he still had to move forward.

The peach forest below is not so dense, but there is a simple path in the middle leading to the front.

Ji Han agreed:

"That's right, don't worry about the peach forests on both sides. It's important to find the time ring as soon as possible before encountering any situation."

After speaking, he took the lead in jumping down from the road break.

Chapter 821 Peach Eats People

Song Qian and the three of them also jumped down. Being in this underground peach forest, although there was a strange feeling of walking outside, the vision of the four of them was also greatly restricted.

As soon as they jumped down, everyone could smell a faint fragrance, although it was not peach fragrance, but it was not unexpected in this peach forest.

Chen Ke looked at the surrounding peach trees and said:

"It's still a living real tree. Without sunlight and without trimming, they can feel that they are growing so well."

Eggplant joked: