Chapter 20      Motuo, Tibet: The Last Secret Realm

The mystery of Guge's history

Three more weeks later, Basan, who was discharged from the hospital after recovering from injury in Colombia, contacted Lu Jingnan and soon returned to the country through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Everyone was surprised and happy. Although this time traveling through the primitive jungle could be said to be a great failure, no one of the special training team died after all.

Through the prehistoric situation in the jungle, the relationship between Basang and Zhuomongba team members began to become harmonious, and only Zhuomongba seemed a little embarrassed.

Lu Jingnan's words were like a thorn inserted into his chest, "We suspect that there are people who inform you."

When Zhuo Muqiangba heard the news, he silently ranked the trust of all members in his heart. He thought that he would rank Minmin first, but when he was really ranked, he realized that no matter how to rank, the first place must be his mentor Professor Fang Xin, and Minmin could only rank second; Yueyang and Zhang Li were both in the army, and he also trusted them very much, only this Basang is very suspicious.

Once Zhuo Mu Qiangba suspects someone, he will not be able to show a hypocritical smile. When he holds Basan's hands together, he will show a suspicious look.

He reluctantly smiled at Basan and said, "I knew you wouldn't sacrifice so easily."

Basan also said, "I didn't expect you to run ahead of me."

According to Basan, he was rushed to the north in the torrent, lost consciousness due to being injured by a giant tree, and recuperated in the hospital for more than a month. His medical records and a series of reports were also transferred to Lu Jingnan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

However, Zhuomu Qiangba found that Basang's skin was darker, and he seemed to have a salty and wet sea breeze on his body, as if he had a taste of a high-end perfume. It was more like traveling somewhere for more than a month than that.

If your guess is true, then where does Basan’s funding come from?

Looking at Zhang and Yue, the two of them chattered and told Basang some follow-up experiences. Zhuo Muqiangba didn't want to get too close and stood under a tree.

Professor Fang Xin saw Zhuo Muqiangba’s concern and asked, “Do you doubt him?”

Zhuo Muqiangba said: "I don't know, if there is really anyone among us who is worthy of doubt, it's only him.

But I am very conflicted. Should I doubt others for no reason?”

Professor Fang Xin advised: "The road is far away and the horse's strength is seen, and people's hearts are seen over time. Why do you deliberately doubt who?

If he really does something bad, he will be exposed sooner or later.

And why is it that we are only suspected, and there is no doubt about them?"

Zhuo Muqiangba knew that Professor Fang Xin was referring to the three people who later, including Lu Jingnan, Eric and Master Yara.

Can't anyone believe it all?

He shook his head, just because of an attitude towards people, he actually turned a team into this. Is it right or wrong?

Zhuo Muqiangba drove these headache-inducing ideas out of his mind and asked, "By the way, mentor, are there any new progress in Guge's history?"

Based on the information they searched, Guge's history has been roughly clarified. Professor Fang Xin once sighed so much: "Guge is a dynasty born and died because of Buddhism."

King Guge is a direct descendant of the Tibetan king Langdama who destroyed the Buddha. Just two years after the Tibetan king Langdama destroyed the Buddha, he was killed by the Buddhist Laron Begidorje.

After that, the Tubo royal court divided, and the posthumous son Weisong, born to the concubine Langdama, was supported by the Wei family as Zamp; and the concubine was unwilling to lose power. According to legend, she secretly bought a baby and also made the bought son Zamp, which was called Yundan.

After that, two Zanpu appeared in the Tubo Dynasty. Both factions said that the Zanpu they supported was real. They fought constantly, and the war broke out and escalated. That was the Wuru Rebellion recorded by later generations.

Years of war have made the people suffer so much. Finally, under the leadership of the nobles and some soldiers, they rebelled. Two Zamp, one fled and the other was killed.

The father of the first generation of Guge King was the grandson of Weisongzanpu, named Jidnimagon. He fled to the Ali area and married the local chief. His three sons, Bejiribagun, Zhasigun and Dezugun, occupied the Mangdi (now Ladakh area), Bujang (now Pulan County) and Sangal (southern Ladakh).

These three sons are called "upper part Sangu", and "upper part" refers to the Ali area. Because they are the land kings of small countries, they are called Gun, which means savior.

The official Tibetan history they searched was almost always called Zhasigun the first generation of Guge King, but the information provided by Lu Jingnan contained some unofficial history and folk records, and directly called Jidnimagu the first Guge King, because he inherited the family business of the chief, Guge was also included within his territory.

But in this way, they have not yet reached a conclusion whether the king who welcomed the envoy starts from Jidnimagon or Dezugon, and the time between them will be about thirty or forty years.

Professor Fang Xin said: "We currently prefer to receive the envoy as the second generation of Guge King Song Ang, because this king has done his best to promote Tibetan Buddhism.

It is reported that he sent 21 young people including the great translator Renqin Sangbu to study Buddhism in India around 975-981 AD (there are also information that said 27 people). The journey was difficult, and in the end, only two people came back alive, and they were later translators of the big and small.

Moreover, shortly after sending a young man to seek Buddhism, the king withdrew from the throne and converted to Buddhism by himself. Later, he built the Torin Temple. In his later years, he raised funds to invite Master Atisha himself, but he was kidnapped by the Gallaukalu army and finally died on the way.

The boy from Yueyang speculated that this Guge King was so passionate about Buddhism that he had probably seen the miracles brought by the messenger, but before seeing the Guge Jin Book, everything could only be guessed."

Speaking of this, Professor Fang Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, "The history of Guge is really... Do you know that the last time this Guge King went west to seek the Buddha was kidnapped. We found seven versions, the location, time, foreign troops, the process of the incident, and the ransom required are different. We cannot judge which one is the true historical fact."

Looking at Professor Fang Xin's bitter expression, Zhuo Muqiangba knew that this was another huge problem they encountered when searching for Guge's history.

Although the Guge dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, it is located in a remote location. Except for its own historical documents, the rest of the information is fragmented. Even the older historical data such as the "Tibet King Statistics" only records the nine generations of Guge kings, which are unknown afterwards, and there has been no conclusion on the historical time.

And this Guge Dynasty was destroyed by war again, and its disappearance can be said to have been a mystery. Until foreign explorers began to enter that deserted place in the 19th century, people had almost completely forgotten it.

Professor Fang Xin sighed: "The history of Guge is surprisingly similar to the Mayan civilization. They were suddenly destroyed during the heyday of civilization. Because of the sudden change, everything was preserved.

In the centuries that followed, human beings had little knowledge of their existence, and no human activity destroyed its buildings and streets, corrected its writing and religion, tampered with its murals and artistic styles, and they even retained the scene of destruction."

In Zhuomongba's mind, he naturally heard the song of Baba-Rabbit singing again: "Once blood desecrates the steps of the temple, countless disasters will come one after another like terrible hail, and the city will become a city of death, deserted."

In Mo Jin's palace, the paper and pen rulers on the table were placed in a mess, and two walls were built with various books at both ends of the table.

Mo Jin was buried in the wall, almost lying on the drawing paper, looking at the map with a magnifying glass, fibers one by one, and his eyes seemed to belong to some hungry beast.

Soris was holding a huge book that was one foot wide and nearly two feet long, and was struggling to read.

The black lines eventually point to three places, looking at the drawing man's intention, it seems that people are going to those three places to find three things.

One is a shiny gem, and the Tibetan text is translated as "red, the praise of opening life"; the other is a thick scripture with the following notes "the mystery is all in it"; the other is painted, which seems to indicate that there is no need, but vague words such as "jade, the last" can be vaguely identified.

Moreover, there are countless arrows on the map, which are back and forth between these three places. Judging from the traces of the painting, the drawingist originally wanted the person who got this picture to go to the middle first, but after considering it, he wiped off the things and arrows at the end of the line in the middle, indicating that he did not need to go to that place.

At first they also suspected that someone had done something on the map, but after scientific testing, they found that the smear and traces were left at the same time as the drawing traces, and the strokes and brushwork were written by the same person, so they could only judge that the drawinger had changed his mind.

The second line they identified leads to a place called "flowers".

The place name translated in the upper part is "Six Peaks". Below "Six Peaks" is called "Great Platform" and a place translated as "Ancestors". On the right is "Sun Throne", followed by the pronunciation "Two Steps" and "Step", three places are close to each other.

"I found it. It's here, where the lotus flowers bloom, it's Motuo, which made me recognize it for so long..." Mo Jin said excitedly.

Soris took off his glasses, leaned back on the sofa, and gasped out his torn mouth.

In the past few months, they are like completing a huge project. The place names marked on the map are all ancient place names from more than a thousand years ago. Many of them were from the Tubo Dynasty and even before the Tubo Dynasty. Moreover, the beads are very different from today's Tibetan language. They have to search for rivers and mountains.

Moreover, Mo Jin doesn't trust others very much, and they do all the data search work by themselves.

Fortunately, this picture seems to be specially prepared for those who cannot find the way. The drawings wrote the names of place, mountain, and river names in extremely detailed detail, but the end of this picture was painted with a vortex-like Yongzhong symbol in three places. It was not Palbara, but the navel!

One month after recovering his physical strength, Lu Jingnan made a detailed summary of the experiences he wrote and began to conduct targeted training.

Another month later, Lu Jingnan stood on the podium, held a wood structure similar to a Rubik's Cube in his hand, and said to the members of the special training: "From today, you will learn the last and most dangerous subject - the study of the organs!"

The students all showed joyful expressions. Zhuo Muqiangba urgently needed to know the knowledge about the mechanism, and Zhang Li was the most excited. He had long yearned for the mechanism and had some preliminary understanding of mechanical assembly and simple trap production.

"Tell me first, your understanding of the agency."

Lu Jingnan asked calmly.

"Traps", "killing weapons", "weapons that can kill people automatically", many answers were immediately given out of the audience.

Lu Jingnan said: "The so-called mechanism is not your narrow murder trap, automatic attack weapon.

Instead, it refers to all the theory of spring structure, from building mortise and tenon structures, bridge erections, to a small iron lock and chain buckles, all of which are related to the mechanism.

Among you, except for Master Yara and Uncle Mullah, the rest of you may be unfamiliar with this theory.

If you want to learn the mechanism thoroughly and thoroughly, it may be difficult to complete it in your whole life. Therefore, what we need to learn is to discover the key points of mechanism and to understand the minds of the mechanism constructor, which is what you often call avoiding the killing trap and discovering the secret structure of opening the door.

That's enough for you to study for more than half a year."

As she said that, she raised her hand and said, "This is a mechanism, each of you, come and get it on the stage."

Each of them took a wooden cube and returned to their seats.

Zhuo Muqiangban held it in his hand and found that the cube was composed of small wooden strips with width and width of one centimeter and ten centimeters long. They crossed horizontally and vertically, with smooth surfaces, as if they were a whole piece, and were inseparable.

After fiddling with it for a long time, he couldn't find any machine spring inside. He thought to himself: "Is this a mechanism?"

Are you fooling people?"

Lu Jingnan said: "Now, what you hold is the most primitive and simplest mechanism, called wooden locks, which are sold in the adult toy market or educational toy market, for two yuan each."

Zhuo Muqiangba said intimately: "It's really a fool."

Lu Jingnan said: "Don't think that this thing is inconspicuous, it actually contains the crystallization of wisdom of the ancients.

On the surface, all the small wooden strips are the same, but in fact only the places you can see are the same. The interior is complicated, some with hooks, some with rings, some with protruding in the middle, and some with sunkens.

These small wooden strips have a total of 8864. They can be completely separated. Now you can split them up and see how talented you have to the organization."

All the students began to split the wooden locks. Zhuo Muqiangba fumbled for a while, turned his head and saw Professor Fang Xin, pushing a small wooden strip out from the middle of the cube. He was inspired and quickly pressed against the middle of the cube, but pressed the middle of the six sides, and the wooden strips were not loose at all.

Ten minutes passed, Zhuo Muqiangba was sweating profusely, Yueyang and Zhang Li intersected, Basang frowned secretly, Tang Min was frowning, only two old men were relaxed and relaxed. Master Yara had even pulled out a wooden strip completely, and then it was like a sack Ding cutting a cow, and the more he dismantled it, the faster he got.

Lu Jingnan looked at him and reminded him: "No need to exchange experience, the internal structure of each of you holding is different.

The key to dismantling this wooden lock is to follow its internal structure and slowly dismantle it step by step. The difficulty lies in the fact that you cannot see the internal structure of it, and you can only grop and move forward."

After listening to Lu Jingnan's tip, Zhang Li seemed to have figured out some tricks. He pulled out the wooden strip a little, pushed the wooden strip in a little, lifted the left one upwards, and pulled the right one downwards. When he couldn't move, he returned according to the original trajectory and tried another way of moving.

Zhuo Muqiangba finally found the first piece of wood that could be moved. It was in the upper right corner of one side of the cube. After pressing it out, the other piece of wood could not move anymore, so he could only try it one by one.

Master Yara has completely split the wooden locks, and sixty-four wooden strips with different structures are neatly placed on the table.

Next, Zhang Li, Professor Fang Xin, Basang, Tang Min, and Yue Yang also opened the wooden lock, and only Zhuo Muqiangba had blue veins on his forehead, red eyes, and his muscles were high and he gritted his teeth.

With a "click", a wooden strip that was almost pulled out was stuck in the entire cube. Zhuo Muqiangba pulled it twice but didn't pull it out. With force, he broke the wooden strip.
To be continued...