"What are you talking about...why can't I understand?"
Keli didn't know the story of Yin Yang Fish Pendant beforehand, and he was even more confused when he heard it at first, with his face full of doubt.
Song Siyuan saw that Keli knew nothing about this matter, so she first introduced him to the origin of the Yin-Yang Fish Pendant, and told him all about their experience of finding the Xuanshu Iron Coupon and the Yang-Yu Pei. These things were related to the Yin-Yang Fish Pei. They are related, but they are independent. After listening to the other words, Ke Li did not mention anything else. He only knew that the Yang Yupei and the Yinyu Pei were originally a pair. The emperors from the Zhou Dynasty had already obtained the Yangyu Pei before they came, leaving only The lower Yin fish pendant was kept in the hands of Queen Shanshan, which led to the trip to the Western Regions.
During the process, Song Siyuan skipped and picked several times and would not introduce it in detail. Keli had heard them discussing Yupei earlier, and combined with what they just said, he finally understood the context.
Keli nodded and said: "If you put it like this, we will understand the general process. You think that this Yin Fish Pendant, like the Yang Fish Pendant, can create some non-existent barriers out of thin air, just like The oasis and the royal city were covered up, and the desert they saw was flattened. In fact, it was just the oasis that was completely covered, not that it disappeared in place."
Kelley couldn't understand the concept of mirror space. Fortunately, mythology also has mythical stories about shielding things, and the word barrier is most similar to what they are talking about.
Song Siyuan nodded towards him: "It is indeed similar to what you understand, but there is a slight difference. Of course, we will not discuss the difference anymore. We can only guess that the underground royal city is hidden elsewhere. If we understand it this way, it will be the same as the underworld." The divine power of the fish pendant can match it."
The maze-like forest space in Shennongjia, even though it still looks like a forest, has actually been opened up by the mirror space created by Yang Yupei. It is as if a transparent maze has been placed in the forest. As long as you walk into it, If you can't find a way out, you will definitely be unable to get in or get out, and you will be trapped to death.
As for the many illusions created in the mountains and fields, they are also the specific manifestations of different hexagrams in different directions. Together with the maze, they render the depths of Shennongjia like a ghostly space, completely unpredictable.
They were standing on the highest Shennong Peak and could not find Tianpu Peak at all. It was precisely because the mirror world created by Yang Yupei had completely hidden the Guifang world, including Tianpu Peak, in the mirror space.
Under the same conditions, the Yinyu Pei may have the same function. It can directly open the channel between the real world and the mirror space, hiding the entire desert royal city. This violent process caused sandstorms and earthquakes around the royal city. Shake, in the eyes of ordinary people, it seems that Queen Shanshan activated her magical power, causing the Shahai King City to be completely submerged in the desert.
Speaking of this, Song Siyuan's eyes lit up: "Then, the desert turns into an oasis and the dry pond generates rivers. Can it also be understood that the Yinyu Pendant folded a part of the desert space and directly allowed the oases and rivers in various parts of the desert to appear in the desert? This was originally a wasteland area, and this has created a magical place where the desert turns into an oasis, and the dry ponds generate rivers.”
She paused and continued to explain: "I remember it was mentioned in Bai Hua's booklet that even with the fish pendant, it only helped the Shanshan Dynasty extend the life of the oases, and did not change the fate of the oases. These oases will still disappear. No, I used to be curious as to why the Shanshan Dynasty perished even though Yupei maintained the oasis, but now I see that the crux lies with Yupei."
Song Siyuan mentioned this point and picked up the teapot Nayi put on the table: "If the teapot is compared to the total area of an oasis, then this cup is the oasis folded by the fish pendant. Every time we pour water, the water in the teapot will Reducing, at the same time, the water in these tea cups will be drank by us. Every time we drink a cup, the water in the kettle will decrease a little, until the last drop of water in the kettle is poured into the cup, and the water will be completely drunk by us. .”
The oasis disappears, the situation is similar to pouring water from a kettle!
Oasis are generated by water sources and rivers. In the case of desert drought, the total area of oasis must be relatively constant and decreasing compared to the desert. In this case, the kettle is the oasis in the desert, and the cup is In the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, the water that was constantly poured into the cup was the oasis created in advance by Yupei.
No matter how the fish pendant is made, it is folding space, folding the oases originally located in various parts of the desert into the vicinity of the city-state. It seems that there are more oases near the city-state, but in fact it is just the oases in other parts of the desert that they have used in advance. .
Under the condition that the total number of oases is relatively constant, once the oases are used by them, they will cease to exist due to the invasion of wind and sand in the environment of drastic climate change.
In this way, the many city-states of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom are like cups that are constantly consuming oases. Those oases they created out of thin air are overdrawing the oases in various parts of the desert in advance. It seems that the fish pendant is indeed what makes the ancient Shanshan Kingdom Oasis keep appearing, but this is just an illusion that the oases are being consumed.
As long as they have a God's perspective and see the entire desert as a whole, they can find that the oases in the desert are converging towards the Shanshan Dynasty, just like pouring a teapot to get water. They think that the fish pendant has created endless oases, which is the source of this endless supply. We are complacent about the continuous oases, but we do not know that the inexhaustible oases are because there are still oases in stock.
This stock will one day disappear, just like the teapot will one day be filled with tea.
This node was in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties.
There are fewer and fewer oases recorded in the White Birch Book, which is a sign that the total amount of oases has been exhausted. After that, no matter how much power the fish pendant exerts, it can no longer maintain the oases. How can a teapot without water be poured down? Get water.
The ancient Shanshan Dynasty was like a farmer who fished in dry marshes and directly consumed the oasis. In the end, it could no longer maintain the oasis, so the whole country had to move to the vicinity of Hongbai Mountain and build another Shahai King City here.
"No, if the oasis area has been exhausted, how could Yupei create an oasis out of thin air in Hongbai Mountain?"
Yue Guanchao understood that Song Siyuan's guess was very reasonable, but the part about Shahai King City was really not easy to explain.
She had already realized the problem of Shahai King City and continued to explain: "I said before that oases are nourished by rivers. You can understand that the existence of all oases consumes water resources. The ancient Shanshan King City consumed Water resources elsewhere.”
Looking at it this way, the reduction of Milanze and the diversion of the Kongque River are basically due to the ancient Shanshan Dynasty using the water resources in the desert. This allowed them to divert and dry up the water sources that should have nourished the desert. be consumed by them within two hundred years.
From this point of view, it is logical that the Mi Lanze dried up and the Kongque River was diverted. The drying up over the past thousand years was because most of the water was used in advance as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
She paused and continued: "Most of the oases in the desert come from the Kunlun Mountains and Tianshan Mountains in the north and south. Because of this, even if the oases in the desert are exhausted, there will still be oases on the north and south sides of the desert. These small coastal countries will not It makes sense that it would be affected.”
"And what Shahai King City borrows is the water veins extending from Tianshan Mountain and Kunlun Mountain."
A flash of light flashed in Song Siyuan's eyes, and she pointed to the map hanging on the wall, indicating that they should look near the Red and White Mountains. The Hotan River is adjacent to the Red and White Mountains. This Hotan River runs north-south, and extends from the Tarim River in the Tianshan Mountains to the north. It passes through the desert and connects to the Hotan Oasis under the Kunlun Mountains. It is a river nourished by the Kunlun Mountains and Tianshan rivers.
She explained solemnly: "Milanze dried up, the Kongque River changed its course, and the area of the oasis continued to shrink. The fish pendants stimulated the oasis, which intensified the drying up of the river Daze. After the oases near the desert were exhausted by them, they , they crossed the desert and came to the Red and White Mountains.”
"A new oasis was created here by borrowing from the Hotan River. If Queen Shanshan had not allowed the royal city to disappear during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the oasis in the Hotan River would most likely have been exhausted by the ancient Shanshan Kingdom. By then, even the oases along the desert coast would have None of them exist anymore.”
When Song Siyuan said this, her guess basically inferred the disappearance of the oasis in the ancient Shanshan country. When everyone looked at the Hongbai Mountain, they also understood the reason for the disappearance of the Sand Sea King City - the mirror connected by the fish pendant. The elephant world is either folded up or sent directly into the mirror world.
Yue Guanchao nodded: "Then, when will we go to Hongbai Mountain?"
Now that they know that the Sand Sea King City is still in Hongbai Mountain, they must go, depending on how to get to Hongbai Mountain.
"We have to go when we go. The key is how we go. We can't just cross the Devil's Desert like them, right?"
Xu Xiake looked at Dunhuang where they were. They had gone through so much hardship in the past few days, and they had only come from Dunhuang to the desert of Milanze. The straight-line distance from Dunhuang to the desert of Milan City was only three hundred kilometers. In total, it was only six hundred kilometers at most. About miles.
If they were to cross the Devil's Desert from Dunhuang, it would be at least 1,100 kilometers from the map, and the straight-line distance alone would be more than 2,200 miles. This was considered the crooked road they actually had to walk along the way. Even so, let alone crossing the desert, it was still unclear whether he could reach the Red and White Mountains alive.
"Keli, how long did it take you to cross the desert?" Yue Guanchao asked.
Keli recalled the past and said: "We used five camels and prepared enough water and food for two to three months. It took a month and a half to walk across the road with camels. That was when there were only two of us, my father and I. It can only be done with great economical consumption. If there are so many of us, if we really have to walk for a month, it will take more than thirty camels just to carry water and food. This still does not cause any danger. If we encounter any danger, That would also lengthen the time.”
"With so many people, it's difficult to ensure safety."
Mentioning this, Keli shook his head: "We lost a camel when we went to Milan City this time. My friends were very angry. Even if you lost money, they would still be very angry. They probably won't lend us another camel." Going across the desert."
