The whole piece of sheepskin is about the size of an octavo piece of paper. Because of the dryness of the desert, the sheepskin is relatively well preserved, but it has been torn into holes in some places. I looked carefully and found that most of the entire painting is of the desert.
There are only a few place names marked on the far right edge, and the most obvious one is Loulan! Moreover, what surprised me even more is that there is a large area of water in the southeast of Loulan!
There are three place names marked on the west side of this water area. The southernmost one is Ruoqiang. The northernmost place to the west is Yuli. Between the two places, near the edge of the desert, there is a small town named Yinying! I hurriedly
I took out the driving map and checked it out. Among the villages and towns in the eastern part of Taklimakan, there was no one called Yinying!
"Isn't this lake the Lop Nur?" Shui Yueqing said, pointing to the water area southeast of Loulan.
I answered casually: "Judging from the geographical location, it should be."
Da Zhuang was a little surprised and said: "Isn't it right? Lop Nur was so big at that time?"
"It seems that this map is very old," Shui Yueqing pinched the sheepskin with his hand: "The largest amount of water in Lop Nur should be from the second to the fourth century. Even Loulan disappeared for nearly 1,500 years, and this map
Loulan is still used as a landmark on the map, which shows that Loulan had not disappeared at that time."
"No, you mean this map is more than 1,500 years old? No way?" Da Zhuang glanced at Shui Yueqing suspiciously.
I didn't listen to the two people chatting, but looked at the entire map. On this map, it seems that the important landmarks are not famous places like Loulan and Ruoqiang, but Yinying, which has long disappeared on modern maps! From
Going west from Yinying, about a finger's length into the desert, a desert appeared in a ring shape. I counted five rings in total.
I don’t know if it’s due to the sheepskin or the color intentionally left on the map, but this circular desert appears gray-black. Is this the black desert Zhang Yuelu mentioned? I rubbed the blackened area a little harder
, the material of the sheepskin is no different from other parts, it seems that the color is deliberately painted.
There is also a treasure chest painted in the black desert. It seems that this is the place where the treasure is buried. If this is the location we are looking for, then I don't understand. Chai Yu and the others don't look like people who are greedy for money.
Why did they come here with Chi Dan? Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind. Could this be their lair at Xiling Gate? Or maybe it was a place where they hid their treasures.
As I was thinking about it, I suddenly realized that this treasure map seemed too easy to come by. The treasure map, this is such a mysterious and important thing, was discovered by us just because of such a gust of wind. It is a bit incredible to think about it.
"Do you think the ghost town we encountered last night could be Yinying?" Shui Yueqing pointed at the map and asked: "Look, Yinying is the only one near here that looks like the one in the Central Plains.
The place name, coupled with what we saw last night, it is basically an ancient town in the Central Plains."
Da Zhuang said "Hmm": "Ri, it looks like it to me, maybe it really is this place. But why is there an extra Han village here for no reason?"
I put away the sheepskin: "It's hard to say. Migration was very common in ancient times, especially in the Western Regions. They may have come here because of the war. See if there is anything else. If not, hurry up and leave."
"Let's go, the car can't drive very far anyway." Da Zhuang quickly got in the car and started the car.
The car passed through the Gobi Desert and climbed over several sand dunes before stopping, but this was far beyond our expectations. After the four people got out of the car, they distributed the equipment in the trunk. In addition to the guns mentioned before, there were also more
He picked up four things that Shui Yueqing called flying spring claws. This was what Shui Yueqing took from the shelf when he was about to leave the door of the basement of the bar.
Shui Yueqing packed up her things and walked over and said, "Qian Long, do we still want to ask Zhang Yuelu how far west he wants to go?"
I shook my head: "No need, Zhang Yuelu will definitely stop us when we get to where we need to be. Besides, we now have a map for reference."
Shui Yueqing was still a little worried and said: "I don't really believe in this map. Although the sheepskin is antiseptic, it can't last for thousands of years, right?"
"The desert area is extremely dry, and it is easy to preserve things. There are corpses that have lasted for thousands of years, not to mention sheepskins that are so easy to preserve?" I said: "Furthermore, I feel that this map is not the original version, and is most likely a descendant.
Re-copied.”
The four of them walked in the desert for nearly a day. At dusk, Zhang Yuelu suddenly said: "Just wait here."
I looked at the map, and the current location should be the black desert area. Shui Yueqing compared it with the mural on the top floor of the Eight Treasures Pagoda, and it seemed that it was also in this location.
"The sun will set soon. Master Zhuang wants to see how the desert turns black." Da Zhuang sat down on the sand dune, got a cigarette and smoked it: "Come on, long live, I'll give you one,