I Created an Ancient Salvation Organization

Everyone walked out of the first grotto with anticipation.

The white ground reflected the dazzling sunlight, and after staying in the dark room for a while, they narrowed their eyes a little uncomfortable.

"You give the villagers money to keep the food hot all the time. This place is dozens of kilometers away from the nearest city. The pediatric expedition team will definitely have to eat later."

Whispered orders passed into everyone's ears, and they turned their heads to look.

I saw a tall woman standing in front of Kuozibayi more than ten meters away. The two were talking, and they seemed to notice their gaze, and the woman turned her head.

She has a beautiful face and an obvious mixed-race appearance, but the most striking thing is the golden-orange irises in her eyes. For a while, Chen Shuo and the others have the illusion that they are being stared at by beasts.

When Kuozibayi saw everyone walking out, he smiled and waved, and shouted at the same time, "It's getting late, I'm preparing dinner for you at night."

After everyone quickly thanked them, they turned to the second grotto.

"Golden eyes... this is very rare." A certain professor couldn't help but said while walking.

This sparked a conversation, and several people discussed the relationship between race, eye color, and region, and it didn't stop until they stepped into the second grotto.

The frescoes here are also very mutilated, and to make matters worse, the colors have fallen off badly.

Professor Feng observed for a while, and said, "The paint used in this grotto is more than one grade worse than the previous one, so the color fade in the eyes occurs. But if it is combined with history, this situation is normal."

"The creators obviously belonged to the staff of the Tang Dynasty. With the intensification of the Tubo offensive at that time, the situation of the Anxi Duhufu became more and more difficult. Under the shortage of materials, it is a reasonable logic to reduce the cost of mural paint."

"This is also evidenced by the site where the grotto was excavated."

"The Mazarboha Grottoes are not a good place to preserve history. Because of the loose geology, the murals here are destined to not be preserved as long as other grottoes."

"But again, because of the loose geology, it's easier and cheaper to dig here."

After everyone nodded, they began to study the contents of the mural.

The painting style is the same as before, but the size of the painting has become smaller. Like ordinary grotto 147, the honest and practical paintings record the operation of an oasis city at that time.

For example, since the coins were minted, the limited cross-border trade with the west of Congling and the Huihe grasslands was maintained; the local military and civilians were arranged to settle the fields and the construction of water conservancy; .

"In this mode of operation, it should be recorded that the government of Anxi Protectorate - Qiuci King City. The person in charge standing on the stage is likely to be the Anxi Protectorate and the King of Wuwei County at that time, Guo Xin."

a professor said.

"I agree." The rest said.

They continued to walk in until they reached the second corner. They looked at almost two-thirds of the way, but found that they were all records of the evolution of the state of the Qiuci King City, including the large and small battles they had experienced.

Normally, these data records are actually very valuable, and they have an immeasurable role in studying the development and outcome of the four Anxi towns in the Tang Dynasty.

But the problem is that Chen Shuo and others are not here for this purpose.

"This...wouldn't it be all these hands behind?" someone muttered in amazement.

Chen Shuo and Professor Feng also frowned slightly.

The murals just now raised expectations too high, but now everyone found out that the last grotto recorded these contents, and they were inevitably disappointed.

"Let's reveal some more secrets about transcendence! Even a little bit is fine." Someone prayed secretly.

The previous grottoes caused so many questions, but when they got here, they narrated other content without explaining, how to prevent them from itching.

Perhaps the man's prayer played a role. When everyone turned to the last wall, the content that first appeared in front of them made them look up.

It turned out to be a quadruple mural.

At first, a group of people in rags lined up to step into the Qiuci King City. Then, one of the group of people pointed to the snow-capped mountains in the distance and turned to say something to the officials in the city.

Furthermore, the two sides on the snow-capped mountains are fighting.

One side consists of human beings, headed by a solemn monk with Baoxiang, and a tall Tubo officer. The latter's right hand holding the knife showed a red line in a corner, but that corner was too small to imagine the whole picture.

On the other side are many monsters with human-shaped silhouettes and tentacles on their backs.

In the last mural, the human army was severely damaged, a golden light fell from the sky, and the demons fled in panic.

The content of the painting is straightforward to the extreme, and it can be understood at a glance without the need for any art history skills.

"There is a group of people, no, they should be refugees in their clothes. They came to the King City of Qiuci, and under the inquiry of the officials, they said that they and others had escaped from the snow-capped mountains."

"And the reason for all this is that a human army fought against the demons in the snow-capped mountains. The army suffered heavy casualties, and finally a golden light fell from the sky."

"The ending is not described. It should be that the refugees do not know what the final result will be."

Professor Chen Shuo bent his head and looked close to the fresco, trying to find out if there were any hidden details, while explaining his own understanding.

"It's another war between demons and human troops." A middle-aged professor next to him shook his head:

"I always find it very strange. It seems that all of a sudden, such great secrets are popping up one after another. First there is Taishi Mountain, then the ruins of the Middle Magnesium Continent, and now the Mazarboha Grottoes."

Professor Feng smiled and said, "It's your logic is wrong."

"Think about it, if you didn't know in advance that there are supernatural beings and otherworldly monsters in this world, what would you think when you saw these murals? Would you still think it's a big event?"

"The murals of the Western Regions Grottoes are originally composed of a lot of Buddhist elements. If we saw them before, they would only be regarded as ordinary historical records. Because there are many murals about gods and monsters like this, there are many other grottoes."

Speaking of this, Professor Feng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked at the others, and suddenly said, "Yeah! In fact, in the Mogao Grottoes, or other Qiuci Grottoes, the murals of gods, Buddhas, demons and monsters may also correspond to real extraordinary events. "

"If we can analyze it all, maybe we can get more traces of the extraordinary in human history."

Professor Chen Shuo first nodded in agreement, and then sighed with emotion: "We have clues. We are so confused when we encounter the murals in front of us. If we really have no clues to analyze them all, it is a huge project."

"And this project does not only need historians, but also a large number of ethnocultural researchers, as well as religious people."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Tang You, who was far away in Jiangcheng and was drinking tea, almost choked.

He didn't have so much energy to sort out the history, folklore and myths of various countries in the world, and then embed the Holy Shield in it. At most, I will extract the typical articles and make the next article.

Hearing what Chen Shuo said, Professor Feng said something:

"I heard that the bureau has recently invited some religious people with a high level of 'cultivation' to form a small department, which will not only be used to decipher the information contained in myths and legends, but also to study super-materials such as 'ideas' and 'souls' The presence."

"After all, the destructive power of our weapons is still at the material level, and there is absolutely no way to face some strange alien monsters."

Hearing this, Tang You's eyes flashed slightly.

If this is the case, then this department will probably come in handy soon. After all, I asked Wukong to leave you things in the snowy mountains, but I really need this knowledge.

At this moment, Chen Shuo, whose eyes were numb, was found almost against the mural. Suddenly, his eyes widened and he said excitedly, "Come here, there are small characters hidden in this mural!"

"Who gave me a magnifying glass!" Professor Feng said quickly.

Others quickly found a magnifying glass from the tool bag and handed it to him. The latter took it and looked in the direction Chen Shuo pointed. Sure enough, the small characters were faded to the point of being invisible.

"In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan, refugees came from the southwest of Khotan. They said that they were close to Persia.

"He said: The inside was controlled by demons, turned into a demon country, invaded people everywhere, and then led the Tubo monks and officials to sue. Too many soldiers died, the golden light descended from the sky, the demons and demons were afraid to walk away, and everyone took the time to go."

Professor Feng said word by word. After speaking, he looked at the other people and said, "It's basically the same as Professor Chen's interpretation just now, but with more specific locations and titles."

He couldn't hide the joy on his face: "This is equivalent to providing us with approximate coordinates!"

When Chen Shuo heard this, he looked back and found that although most of the wall was free, the mural was over.

And remembering the purpose of this trip, he couldn't help rubbing his forehead, and said with some anxiety:

"We came here to find the source of the pendant, but so far, we know something and have a lot of doubts, but the only thing is that we haven't gotten any information about the pendant."

"As of now, the two seem to be unrelated. I don't know why the pendant was found nearby, but the only clue we can continue to explore at the moment is this so-called 'Magic Kingdom'."

"So we have to switch positions."

"Besides that, we still have four questions: Who is the monk in Tsing Yi? Who is Wu Sinian? Who is the solemn monk? Who is the Tubo officer?"

"You are all experts in this field, so I'm afraid all of this will fall on your shoulders."

When Chen Shuo finished speaking, the middle-aged professor who had been bowing his head and thinking, his eyes changed, seemed to suddenly think of something, and gradually revealed that he was suddenly enlightened, and full of incredible shock.

He slowly turned his head and stared straight at Chen Shuo: "As for the latter two, I'm afraid I know who they are."

Everyone sees it at once.

"To be honest, it was the word 'Magic Kingdom' that woke me up." The middle-aged professor explained to everyone with the shock in his eyes.

"I don't know if you have read it. It is called "Homer's Epic" in the East, the traditional Chinese folk literature "The Biography of King Gesar". Among them, King Gesar's most famous achievement is to subdue cannibalistic demons. Destroyed the demon kingdom that ravaged the world!"

Demon country!

Everyone was shocked.

After a while, a professor who knew a little bit suddenly felt something was wrong and asked aloud: "According to the current research, wasn't King Gesar born in about 1038 AD?"

Even if the middle-aged professor was excited, he couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "The Biography of King Gesar was produced in the fifth or sixth century AD, but King Gesar was born in 1038. Do you think it is possible?"

"According to the current mainstream speculation, the content of "King Gesar" should be a collection, that is, the deeds of many powerful people from ancient times to the present are put into one name. That is to say, those people are Gesar of different ages. King Er."

"And one of them has made a great achievement in destroying the Devil Kingdom. Regarding this, I am not guessing based on the word 'Magic Kingdom' alone, but there is this person."

The middle-aged professor pointed to the solemn monk on the mural: "Have you noticed? This monk has hair!"

Everyone fixed their eyes, and it was so, and then looked at him again, waiting for the next.

"In Tibetan Buddhism, there was once a figure of the rank of patriarch, called Padmasambhava, who was an eminent monk in Tianzhu and the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. His typical appearance is that he has long hair and beards, indicating that he is practicing cultivation. No foreign affairs."

"In 783 AD, at the invitation of Chisong Dezan, he went to Tubo to preach the Dharma, and left in 805 AD. The sixteenth year of Zhenyuan in the mural text is 800 AD, when he was still in the Pan-Tubo area."

"And according to the Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, Guru Rinpoche once destroyed the Demon Kingdom with King Gesar!"

"Because of these kinds of evidence, I just thought that these two are Padmasambhava and King Gesar." The middle-aged professor said decisively, his face full of excitement to see the truth.

Looking at the frowning frowns of the people around him, he added another heavy hammer: "This is not over! Look at King Gesar's right hand, what does this red outline look like?"

Chen Shuo and the others were stunned for a moment, and then the color and location of the outline finally reminded them of a very familiar sign, and their eyes widened a little.

And the middle-aged professor directly shouted out their hearts:

"Yes! It's the Holy Shield!"

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ps: Guys, I actually adjusted back and was able to resume the third watch. I don’t know if you still remember, I actually had the third watch for two days at the beginning of the month.

The reason why I didn't continue later is because I graduated this year and majored in computer science, so graduation design, graduation thesis, graduation practice appraisal, graduation research report...a series of events came to my face.

I'm really not lazy. Recently, I've been grinding these while trying to keep the second watch. School things are always like this, not difficult, but very trivial and time-consuming. But after four years of college, there must be an explanation in the end. .