Later, Chen Zhi asked Yang Wumao to carefully process these murals and reassemble the fragments.
Use technology to describe the details of those micro-pictures, and then enlarge them greatly, trying to find clues in these pictures.
But pictures are pictures after all, and words can never be as direct as words. Chen Zhi repeatedly studied the words, guessed their meanings, and took photos of several words in them, and sent them to reliable experts for identification. However, he came to the conclusion:
This is definitely the language of the ancient Western Regions, but because it was buried for a long time and was lost before communication with the Central Plains, there is no way to identify it!
If you want to re-decipher these words, you need to set up a team to study the ancient Sogdian culture in the Western Regions, and then slowly decipher these words from the perspective of cultural relationships.
It will take at least 5 or 6 years, and it may not be successful.
Chen Zhi also sent some to his father, but Chen Yiyang told him that the origin of words has always been very complicated. Some peoples come from pictograms, some people come from habits, and some people even come from myths and legends.
To decipher clueless text is simply not something that can be accomplished in a short time.
If Chen Yiyang stopped doing all the things at hand and focused solely on studying the history of the ancient Sogdians and deciphering these texts, it would still take 1 to 2 years.
Chen Zhi then fell into a bottleneck. He plagiarized all the text on it, and then repeatedly thought about the matching text, hoping to make some discoveries by combining the text with the picture.
Among the long murals, the one with the most text is the part where the old man in white enlightens them on their journey to the west and King Gaochang.
And the strangest thing is that when looking at it with a magnifying glass, the old man in white also appears in the picture of King Gaochang.
And the body proportions are obviously larger than other subjects.
It can be seen that when the contract was signed, the old man in white was also present, and his position was very important, which was more or less related to the conclusion of the contract.
Chen Zhi read through these incomprehensible words, and he soon discovered that almost all the words mentioned two words.
The structure of these two characters is very strange. They look a bit like drawn symbols, "??",
But the combination of these two words looks very gorgeous, and will be mentioned in almost every subsequent picture!
In the narrative of the separation between Gao Changguo and the Monkey Man, these two words were mentioned several times.
Chen Zhi copied these two characters on the white paper with a pen, looked at them repeatedly under the light, and split the structure of these two characters. He hoped to understand this from the separation of these two symbols.
The meaning of the text.
However, after a few days, there was still no progress.
Counting the day they came to Guazhou, more than a week had passed before they knew it.
Bao Ping didn't look for Chen Zhi during this period, and the organization was relatively calm. According to Fat Wei, Bao Ping's whole person has changed since he went to Fengdu Hell last time!
He rarely talked to people, and it was difficult to even see him smile. The men in black in the organization were very afraid of him, including the samurai.
The organization has nothing to do with them, and Tianfa Temple has nothing to do with them.
They simply stayed in Guazhou temporarily and devoted all their energy to studying this long scroll.
Danxuan was very peaceful during these days. Chen Zhi told him what happened in the Thousand Buddha Cave and showed him "The Holy Buddha Crosses the Wall".
When he saw the monkey man in the scroll, Danxuan was unusually calm.
He compared the beads in his hand with the beads in the hands of the monkey man in the mural, sighed and closed his eyes...
During the time that Chen Zhi and the others were researching, Danxuan spent most of the time at the Buddha Cave.
For some unknown reason, he seems to like Guazhou very much, and he also likes the Thousand Buddha Cave Grotto very much.
The layout inside Thousand Buddha Cave is simple and many places have been damaged.
Danxuan's status in the Buddhist world is very high, and he has control over a large amount of Buddhist charity funds. He has the right to invest in some more meaningful Buddhist buildings.
He said that after returning, he would send a sum of money here to rebuild the East Thousand Buddha Caves, and would use his influence to raise a sum of funds to make the East Thousand Buddha Caves as glorious as the Mogao Grottoes.
During these days, he walked alone in the Gobi Desert for more than half an hour every day and went to the Buddha cave to practice meditation.
The old orc man told Chen Zhi that since Master Danxuan left, the entire Buddha cave has become brighter and the aura has changed. It feels like the Buddha's light has come to the world.
Even his lizard old lady seems to have been transformed, her temperament has become much softer. She holds the prayer beads respectfully and follows behind Danxuan to recite scriptures all day long.
On this day, Chen Zhi made a cup of coffee as usual, sat on his desk, and scanned the information on the computer with his mouse.
He threw the white paper with the "??" symbol on the table casually,
But at this time, Xiaomi ran upstairs, smiled at Chen Zhi and Fat Wei:
"Two bosses, let me tell you good news!
A friend of mine's local product shop opened today. All the products sold are our local products. The two bosses are my friends, so why not come with me and have a look!
If you find good ones, buy some and send some back to your relatives and friends back home! Don’t worry, I’ll give you a discount.”
When Fat Wei heard Xiaomi's words, he rolled his eyes.
Xiaomi has come to them several times in the past few days because of this kind of thing.
Either one of his friends owns a restaurant or one of his friends opens a bathing shop. Let them go out to eat and play, and spend large sums of money. In fact, it is just to give him a raise!
"Hey, let me tell you, why do you always think about asking us to spend money?",
Fat Wei’s voice was eight tones higher,
"How come you, a member of an ethnic minority, are not real at all?
Aren't you an ancient Sogdian? How come you are better than our Beijing Filmmakers?"
"Of course I am an ancient Sogdian!" Xiaomi felt very proud when he mentioned this word.
“But we ancient Sogdians also need to eat!
Don’t worry, what we say is really reliable, this store is really good, come on, follow me to have a look..."
When Xiaomi was talking about this, his eyes suddenly glanced at the page on the table, and when he saw the two symbols on the paper, he burst out laughing.
“Oh, these two bosses are amazing!
You can all find this Sogdian language, these two characters are written well!"
"What?",
Chen Zhi's brain immediately twitched, and he raised his face to look at this inconspicuous little tour guide.
"You know this is Sogdian? Do you know these two words?"
"Of course I know you!",
Xiaomi said nonchalantly,
“These two words mean pearl, which means precious treasure!
Every year when our family worships, the box on the ancestor worship box has these two words! I have seen the big one since I was a child..."