Three-point analysis made Ye Changan nod, "So I just felt sothing was off, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Your analysis has clarified it a lot."
"However, I’m just speculating. I can’t actually figure out the answers to these questions," Xiao Yu flicked the dagger in her hand, squinted her eyes, and suddenly looked towards Sui Yi, who had been silent all along.
"Sui Yi, what do you think?"
Sui Yi looked up, glanced at the two of them, and said, "First, the Prophet must really exist. I don’t believe in the so-called talent of foreseeing the future, but it’s not impossible for soone to deduce the situation, look at the celestial phenona, and gain so insight. If their logic and thinking are extraordinary, they could possess predictive abilities, but there’s another possibility... that the Prophet might actually be part of the Black Iron Army."
"Second, Mohamd might be a prophet under the Prophet’s command, also possessing such skills and knowledge. Look at his corpse’s clothes, a black robe with special patterns on the cuffs and collar; ordinary people don’t dress like that."
"Third, murders are generally due to passion, vengeance, treasure, or madness. A cri of passion is highly unlikely—all signs don’t match; it’s ruled out. Vengeance leads to preditated massacres, but there’s no need to clean up the city, spending effort arranging these Loulan people’s bodies so brutally that it’s both laborious and ti-consuming. Naturally, it doesn’t fit the psychology of an avenger. The madness in murder, where killing is unconscious and emotional, wouldn’t be organized so neatly. As for ’demonic,’ it points to sacrifices—from so elder organizations’ pure ritual needs, sparing no effort in slaughtering and arranging these bodies to fulfill its ceremonial needs, or it could be called a malicious curse. In the context of Loulan’s cultural group and that era, the existence of such organizations isn’t surprising. The last reason could be treasure" (I’m not great at logical reasoning, just jotting it down).
Having said this, Sui Yi stopped speaking.
Ye Changan and Xiao Yu understood what she ant.
"So the Black Iron Army slaughtered the city for a ritual or to seize treasures?" Ye Changan’s eyes sparkled,
"It could also be for the treasure, with the ritual serving as a convenient curse. The motives might not be singular," said Xiao Yu calmly.
Many people who break into hos to rob develop a montary sense of hatred or fear towards unfamiliar victims, leading to brutal treatnt of the bodies...
The human heart is unpredictable.
"If we are to discover the truth, we can only visit the Royal City to see for ourselves and also check the whereabouts of the royal bloodline ntioned by Mohamd."
The trio was sensitive and speculated that Mohamd’s abrupt ntion of the royal bloodline was not just out of concern, but also carried a certain sense of anticipation, as if foreseeing that the royal bloodline might escape this calamity.
Knowing that everything stemd from the Royal City, yet the trio had no intention of entering it now.
Because...
"Find so food and see,"
The trio went to the kitchen and were imdiately hit by the sight of various ingredients lying on the chopping board. Of course, there were also bodies sealed inside the wall, along with that strange creature. Once understood, this creature was not hard to deal with—a shot into the wall, and it was killed on the spot!
"Hey, this jerked at is still good," Ye Changan used a clean spare knife to cut the dust-covered jerked at ham, slicing out chunks of still well-preserved at.
In the desert region, at is primarily consud, with various kinds of cured ats especially popular, but even so, such well-preserved states still gave the trio an...
eerie feeling.
"The slaughtered ancient city, the misaligned tis..." Sui Yi frowned. She actually hadn’t disclosed to the others that she had detected, through Magnetic Sensation, that these utensils dated back over eighteen hundred years, indeed aligning with the Eastern Han Dynasty historical records of Loulan vanishing from public view. But the nine thousand years, the uncorrupted corpses, and the perfectly preserved buildings still made her sense imnse mysterious forces manipulating the age of this ancient city.
Ti stopped? The flow of ti slowed down?
The thought bubbling up in Sui Yi’s mind was so incredulous that even she found it hard to suppress once it erged...
After ensuring the food did not carry any toxic bacteria, Sui Yi and the others each carried a significant amount of food, although she and Xiao Yu shouldered more, while Ye Changan picked a few special pastries.
The trio quickly left the residence and didn’t check the other houses, as Gong Jiu and their group were still waiting for them to return.
The plan was to return with the main troop later since they were limited by the equipnt they had and didn’t possess the extensive knowledge like Professor Ye, making any investigation into this city highly challenging.
"Can we exit through the main door?"
"It seems possible, this here is the latch, Sui Yi, co lift the handle, we’ll open it together,"
This front part was quite simple, without any chanisms, just a bar resembling heavy iron and made of a special mineral across the back of the door.
"So heavy, who knows what material this is made of,"
"Could it be teorite iron? It must weigh a thousand pounds, right?"
"Not necessarily,"
"Maybe your military should send a helicopter over to transport this teorite iron out..."
Sui Yi’s comnt made Ye Changan and the other person laugh. That could be sothing.
After all, the value of teorite iron is imasurable, let alone that from the Ancient City of Loulan’s iron bar.
Boom!
The bar, now propped against the wall by Sui Yi and the other, opened the door.
They saw that long river.
Looking up, they could see the original riverbank they had been at...
Riverbank?
From here, it wasn’t very clear to the average person, but Sui Yi’s vision wasn’t ordinary; at first glance, her face slightly changed.
Where are the people?
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"Since the era marked by falling teorites and nine purples ascending to the throne, the era of the Emperor began, yet the Emperor’s disposition transford, becoming much more ferocious, rcilessly slaughtering everywhere, his iron cavalry reaching extres, massacring towns and feeding corpses to these raised gu creatures and spirits, sparing nothing to extres. The world was in turmoil, and finally, in our Loulan," Ye Changan paused, then read, "The signature is Mohamd; and the recorded ti" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welco to vote for it at qidian, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian to read.)
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