I Can’t Play This Game Anymore

Latest website: Neither the soldiers of Tang Dynasty nor Tubo 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 was, these unlucky guys obviously sneaked in secretly.

And their results also confirmed that people outside were right to seal this place.

Maybe it was because he had been dead for too long. Chen Ke did not detect any cause of death from the bones. There were a total of five bones inside and outside.

Of course, this is not a problem for the four of Ji Han, they are just subconsciously more careful.

Continuing along this road, there is a long tunnel. At first, the outside was rough, but after walking a few dozen meters, simple reliefs began to appear on the stone walls on both sides.

Chen Ke was most interested in these and immediately started to study them closely.

Eggplant, on the other hand, vaguely felt that the place was not very clean, and urged to move faster.

"Don't be too busy, Brother Qie. You might be able to tell who the previous owner of this place was."

"What? After you made the judgment, you still want to chat with him? You said we have nothing to do, we just went to someone else's house to pick up a treasure?"

Chen Ke didn't pay attention to Eggplant's joke. Anyway, he knew that although he complained, he was always careful about his surroundings.

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

The first reliefs seem to depict a very high-status figure traveling surrounded by crowds. Although the surrounding mountain lakes have simple lines, they look very clear.

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

Chen Ke was staring at the second relief sculpture in trance at this time. What seemed to be a banquet was painted on it.

The banquet seemed to take place 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 placed on the table.

Although the two people sitting in the main seats of the banquet could not be seen clearly, it could be roughly judged that they were a man and a woman.

Chen Ke looked at this relief and said doubtfully:

"Brother Ji, do you feel that this painting is very familiar to you? I seem to have seen it somewhere before, but it is not the original version I have seen. Damn it, it feels like you can't put it into words when it comes to your mouth."

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

The scene described in the painting seems to have been seen somewhere before, so it is not the original version, but the content should be similar.

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

Seeing this picture of a banquet, Eggplant joked:

"I thought you had discovered the real Mona Lisa here, but it turned out to be just like the Peach Club 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 on the table, really reminded me of the simple illustrations in the old Journey to the West book when I was young.

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

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

Maybe it was because the scene here was really not reminiscent of "Journey to the West", so the three of them didn't think about it for a moment.

Chen Ke replied:

"Yes, yes! Yes, it's "Journey to the West"! I remembered it! It's the scene of the Peach Club."

If the two unclear protagonists in the relief are regarded as the Queen Mother and the Jade Emperor, then they are indeed consistent with the peach association.

The third stone sculpture is different from the previous one. It is a scene of a woman wearing a tiger head mask watching a large army of soldiers and horses leave.

Eggplant scratched his head and said:

"The content of this relief seems a bit out of place, right?"

But Chen Ke shook his head and said:

"No, they can be connected. If the content on this relief is correct, I think I can guess who may live here."

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

"You're not talking about the Queen Mother of the West, are 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 the Kunlun Mountains, but this is the Tianshan Mountains. If we don't talk about reality, even the myths cannot match it."

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 cave away from the palace, where she travels and rests, and does not live exclusively in a 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 the Kunlun Mountains, and the Kunlun Mountains recorded at that time and the Kunlun Mountains we call now are two different things. Besides, according to the actual situation, the Tianshan Mountains are more reasonable.

Because the Queen Mother of the West is most likely a deified female tribe or civilization leader, and the altitude of the Kunlun Mountains determines that there cannot be any concentrated population there, but there is no problem here at all in the Tianshan Mountains, so many scholars also believe that the Tianchi Lake in the Tianshan Mountains This is the fairyland of Yaochi in myths and legends. "

Eggplant said puzzledly:

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

Chen Ke pointed to the third painting and said:

"First, the legendary Queen Mother of the West appears in the Classic of Mountains and Seas with disheveled hair, tiger-like teeth, and a leopard-like tail trailing behind her. She was a half-human, half-animal person who was in charge of plague executions in ancient times. 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 matrilineal society of the western tribes that have not yet been fully civilized. The image in the myths and legends is probably just because she wears a mask to increase the sense of mystery, just like what is painted in the third mural. Look carefully, this A woman wearing a mask has a tail behind her. "

Eggplant didn’t forget to joke at this moment:

"Good guy, I thought people of that era were already having fun like this."

Chen Ke continued to explain:

"The final 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 patrolled the West. Both the "Historical Records" and "The Biography of Emperor Mu" both record King Mu's travels. When I went to the west, I met the goddess-like Queen Mother of the West. She stayed here for a long time and refused to leave. Legend has it that the two had a love story, but it's hard to tell.

Therefore, what these three reliefs show is the scene of Queen Mother of the West commanding this place, Yaochi entertaining King Zhou Mu, and sending King Mu of Zhou away. If there are no accidents, this may be the territory of Queen Mother of the West. "

After hearing this, Eggplant shrugged and said:

"Then I'd like to go in and beg her old man to see if there are any peaches or anything like that. I also want to suffer the pain of immortality."

But as soon as they finished speaking, the four of them heard the sound of the remaining stone wall collapsing behind them.