Imperial Treasure
Chapter 401 - 272: Three Suspicions

Chapter 401: Chapter 272: Three Suspicions

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"Hmm, if it was something the owner hid so well before dying, and it seems quite expensive based on the material,

it should have some value, and it may even tell us who killed him."

Sui Yi unfolded the silk handkerchief to examine...

With just a glance, Sui Yi closed it again and looked towards Ye Changan.

"Suddenly, I find Miss Ye very important," she remarked, making Xiao Yu raise an eyebrow.

"Ancient Loulan script?"

"Hmm."

Alright... Miss Ye was indeed very important.

Ye Changan opened her eyes in a daze and, after a slight moan due to her weakness, suddenly saw two pairs of eyes staring at her...

Her heart skipped a beat.

"What are you doing..."

"How do you feel?"

"Not too bad..."

After drinking some water, the square scarf fell into Ye Changan’s palm. She looked at it...

After a while, she said, "This is indeed Loulan script, but it’s not in standard compilation, and

the meaning written here is very strange."

Sui Yi exchanged a look with her companion.

Ye Changan’s expression was indeed one of great confusion; evidently, the recorded text was not simple.

Sui Yi had also taken a look earlier. The text on it was hastily written in a flurry, with a strong personal style and some carelessness.

Ye Changan didn’t keep them in suspense, quickly reading aloud the words she had deciphered...

"Nine thousand year sacrifice, the Prophet speaks, Loulan’s demise is near, heaven and earth will not favor our lives, I thought it would be due to the sealing of waters and the spilling of blood, pestilence or a sudden outbreak of plague, but the Prophet’s curse spoke of a manmade disaster, what is this disaster, not the Han Dynasty’s army, nor the surrounding tribes, but the day after the sacrifice, the Black Iron Army silently entered the city, slaughtered far and wide. Hearing the dreadful news, and seeing no escape, I sealed The Gate and wrote hastily, thinking of my lonesome self, mourning that the Loulan Royal Lineage will have no successor, should someone in future share my concerns, I hope they enter the palace, seek out the Loulan Royal Lineage’s whereabouts, for the gods will surely protect you... Signed, Mohammed."

As Sui Yi listened, her brow furrowed, while Xiao Yu asked, "Strange? Why doesn’t it seem coherent to me... Is it a last will and testament?"

"It is indeed a testament, and certainly fluid, because the person recorded his genuine last words,

but that is precisely why it’s strange..." Ye Changan scrutinized the square scarf once more...

"Nine thousand years, the Curse, the Prophet, the Black Iron Army," Sui Yi looked at Ye Changan, "none of these match the records in Records of the Grand Historian and other histories."

"Nine thousand years... I did not notice that before. Our Chinese history is at most five thousand years, up and down,

where do four thousand years come from?" Xiao Yu was very meticulous.

"Even if we include unverified historical figures like the Three Sovereigns and Xuanyuan, that doesn’t exceed seven thousand years,

the Ancient City of Loulan shouldn’t have a history of nine thousand years, otherwise the entire history would be overturned.."

Could it be that authoritative historical texts including Records of the Grand Historian are wrong?

Have they all been deceived by history?

Ye Changan felt this matter was getting quite serious, and the value and credibility of the entire square scarf were highly distorted.

"However, setting aside the matter of nine thousand years, the Curse and the Black Iron Army mentioned here also contradict two possibilities for the fall of Loulan recorded in Records of the Grand Historian"

"One, Loulan perished at the hands of the Eastern Han Dynasty’s army, in a conflict over territorial sovereignty, two, natural disaster, Loulan was located in the desert, and it is likely that there was a severe drought at the time, leading to water shortage and scorching heat."

Xiao Yu wasn’t too clear on these historical details, but as military personnel, she had a set of military theories and logical thinking. She thought for a moment and said, "The two points you mentioned are also referred to here,

could we understand it this way, that during a sacrificial ceremony held every nine thousand years, they had a Prophet in Loulan who made a prediction:

that Loulan would face a great calamity, Mohammed thought it would be an attack by the Eastern Han army or a natural disaster, such as drought or plague etc., but the Prophet said no... In fact, a powerful Black Iron Army used special means to enter the city undetected, and in a short time, massacred the entire Ancient City of Loulan. This is the main content of the record, but in my view, there are several peculiar points of suspicion,

one is the Prophet, does this so-called Prophet truly have the ability to predict the future? The second,

this Mohammed also speculated about natural disasters and the Eastern Han army, isn’t it that there were signs at that time, ordinary people wouldn’t make such assumptions, what then is his identity? Third, if the Black Iron Army massacred the entire Ancient City of Loulan,

then why is the Ancient City now pristine, with the corpses disposed of,