According to Balohad, the god Dogarna once taught King Tatunaan a way to summon his army, so that the rats in the Gar cave could help the Tatunaan people fight.
This secret is only known to each king of Tatunaan. It is secretly taught by the previous king, and others are not qualified to know it. In the following wars, with the help of rats, the Tatunaan people won repeated battles. They became more courageous as they fought, their territory continued to expand, and their national power became stronger and stronger.
Later, King Tatunaan regarded the appearance of the rat god Dogarna in his dream as a totem and made it into a mask for the guards. It is believed that it can guarantee victory in the war.
After hearing Balohad's story, Chen Tao couldn't calm down for a long time. Although he did not believe in things like Tatunaan praying to the gods in the story, from the perspective of the culture of an ancient desert country that disappeared, these mysterious legends and stories were all alternative manifestations of a culture. Chen Tao does not deny that there is a great deification in it, but these stories alone can make people have unlimited imagination and yearning for Tatuna who disappeared under the sea of sand.
"It turns out that this mask has such a mysterious origin." Chen Tao nodded, looking at the mask on Balohad's chest, he always felt that there was something wrong with this mask.
This feeling is very strange. This mask feels very familiar to Chen Tao, but he still feels a little resistant in his heart. It is obviously right next to his head, but he just can't tell where he has seen this thing.
"Does the method of summoning rats really exist?" Chen Tao smiled and asked Balohard with some confusion, "Has it been passed on to you now?"
Unexpectedly, Balohard shook his head and sighed: "Alas, the method of summoning the rat god's army has been lost..."
"Lost?" Chen Tao was stunned, "How could such an important thing be lost?"
Balohad rubbed the rat-head mask on his chest and said calmly: "This incident is our regret, and it is also a gap that can never be filled in the hearts of all Tatunaan descendants."
It turned out that the throne of Tatunaan was passed to the last person, the king who was swallowed by the big sandstorm. At this time, Tatunaan's position in the desert has been basically stable, but the last King Tatunaan is ambitious and is not satisfied with his current strength. He wants to unify the desert, break this deadlock, and become the real person in the desert. The overlord is simply crazy.
So he sent his three sons to lead Tatunaan's three main armies to separately launch a war of annexation against the remaining countries. Facing the powerful Tatunaan, some small neighboring countries chose to submit and survive as Tatunaan's vassals. Some relatively powerful middle countries had to form an alliance. For a time, Tatunaan and the Alliance countries A stalemate formed. The two sides often fought, but they were always in a stalemate.
It was at this time that an unprecedented disaster occurred in Tatunaan. The entire holy city, including the royal family and civilians in the city, was swallowed up by the storm and buried under the yellow sand forever.
His three sons were away fighting and lost news of Tatunaan.
The eldest son and the second son died in the battle. The younger son, the Prince of Ulster, returned to Tatunaan with the remaining army, only to find that everything had long since ceased to exist. And the secret about summoning the Rat God's army disappeared forever with the death of the last King Tatunaan.
Chen Tao looked at the mask thoughtfully, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He felt his scalp numb. There was clearly a scorching sun above his head, but he felt a cool air extending from the roots of his hair to the soles of his feet.
He finally knew why this mask was so familiar! The ferocious rat face in the mask continued to enlarge in Chen Tao's mind, gradually overlapping with the strange face in his memory.
The Soul-Destroying Rat King!
Chen Tao felt an unexpected chill in his heart. Could it be that the legendary Golden Rat God with a golden body and a touch of fiery red hair between his eyebrows was the ugly and cruel Soul-Destroying Rat King?
Thinking of the strange scene I experienced on the cliff of Heizigou, that strange group of people wearing the masks of the Rat King, and the strange golden palace behind them, could it be the temple used to sacrifice to the rat god Dogarna?
But how is this possible!
One is the Loess Plateau and the other is the desert hinterland. There is a huge difference between the two. No matter how coincidental it is, there is no way to connect the two places.
Could it be...
Chen Tao's eyes widened as a flash of lightning flashed through his mind.
Qianshu Hongde!
The only thing that can connect these two places is the lingering ghost Qian Shu Hongde!
On the stone carving in the tomb, Qian Shu Hongde once mentioned that he went to the Western Regions and brought back tens of thousands of troops, and finally he was able to fight against the cultists and kill the monster that his senior brother Hao Yu Gongshen turned into.
In the rock paintings describing that war in the cave, Chen Tao did not see the so-called army, only countless small black dots, and in the corner of one of the paintings, there was a mouse.
Every stroke of the burial rock paintings and murals has extremely profound meaning, and it is impossible to paint them there without reason, not to mention that these things appear in more than one picture.
Thinking about the messy hallucinations and weird dreams he had during this period, Chen Tao had a bold idea in his heart.
Could it be that what Qianshu Hongde brought back was not an army, but a method of summoning rats to help him fight?
As soon as this idea appeared, Chen Tao felt as if he had caught a thread hidden in the darkness, and everything seemed to have a little more clarity!
There are various signs that Qianshu Hongde has been to Tatunaan. And he brought back the method of summoning rats to fight from Tatunaan, and used this method to help him defeat the cult, which ultimately led to his mission.
Balohad said that only King Tatunaan knew that method, but Qianshu Hongde was an outsider, not to mention how he got into Tatunaan. Even if he did, how did he get there? How to get this method?
It was already noon, and the sun was scorching people's throats. Balohad found a few strange-shaped stone pillars for everyone to hide in the shade, waiting to escape the noon scorching heat.
Day and move forward.
Chen Tao was crouching and leaning under the stone pillar minding his own business, not paying attention to the crowd around him. He ignored Haozi's several conversations with him, grabbing his hair and thinking hard about all this.
He worked hard to connect all the information he knew together, whether it was scattered dreams or the exact information he already had, it seemed like this was the case.
In order to deal with the cult members of his senior brothers Hao Yu Gongshen and Hao Yu Gongshen, Qian Shu Hongde went to the Western Regions alone, and suffered many life and death situations in the desert, but was finally rescued by a woman.
This woman should be a person with a certain identity and status in Tatunaan. She brought Qian Shuhongde into Tatunaan, and it seemed that many things happened with Qian Shuhongde.
In the end, Qianshu Hongde obtained a method to summon the army of rat god Dogarna, and used it to destroy the cult and kill the monster that Hao Yugongshen had turned into.
Many years later, Grandpa accidentally rescued Uncle Long and Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang had a road map to enter Tatunaan, so Grandpa took them into Tatunaan, and finally took away the key to unlocking Tatunaan. The keys, and quietly left these things to Chen Tao himself.
Then, some of Uncle Long's missing guys who were originally in Heizigou appeared here for some reason, and Uncle Long also followed them, and even cooperated with the Ye family.
These are just Chen Tao's preliminary guesses. Regarding Tatunaan, Chen Tao can only figure out a few things so far, and he can't guarantee that his guesses are correct. There are many doubts and mysteries everywhere. To truly understand it is definitely not something that can be done now.
But one thing is certain, Qianshu Hongde is definitely the most critical figure in all of this.
Chen Tao touched the beast box in his arms. This thing was originally placed in the coffin with Qian Shu Hongde, and a picture in the rock painting on the rock wall clearly showed that Qian Shu Hongde had used this box.
Obviously, this weird beast box is not only one of the keys to Tatunaan, but also an extremely precious thing for Qianshu Hongde. But apart from a pile of useless sand, there were only a bunch of tadpole-like crawling ghost symbols inside.
etc........
Something stirred in Chen Tao's mind. Chen Tao once asked Professor Wengtian from Zhonghai to translate those ghostly talismans. There was a series of weird spells in them.
Is it possible that this string of spells is the secret method to summon rats to fight?
Chen Tao felt like he was going crazy. Could it be that if you chant a string of spells, those rats would obey your orders?
But then I thought about it. In the rock painting, Qianshu Hongde was holding a beast box in the air with countless rats at his feet. Maybe he really did this!
Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little excited when he thought that the secret of the Tatunaans summoning the rat god's army might be in his own hands.
How do you pronounce that string of ghostly drawings?
Chen Tao's mind became more and more confused, and he didn't think about it for a while, so he had to give up.
Anyway, he had the box with him. Wouldn't he know if he went over to Ye Rong and asked?
"Well, Miss Ye...
"
Chen Tao called Ye Rong's name, and when he raised his head, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Hey? Where is the person?" Chen Tao stood up from under the stone pillar.
"Ye Rong!"
"Haozi?"
"Ballohard?"
After calling for a long time, no one answered, and no one saw them.
its not right! Why is everyone missing?
Chen Tao had a bad premonition in his heart and walked around several times. He looked around every stone pillar and hill, but he didn't even see a shadow, let alone anyone.
Although Balohad only brought a part of the people, but with the three of Chen Tao and the others, it was not just one or two people. It was impossible for such a large number of people not to be able to see anyone.
But these people are all gone!
(End of chapter)
