Port Torot is located at the northernmost tip of Malapaska Island, and today Li Huan and they came from Davao and ran more than 70 nautical miles on the sea, so they only ran for three hours. If the Batangas on the other side of the Karafa Strait come over, it won't even take an hour. Port Tolot may not be a port city, but the city is best known for its tourism, with Sabang Bay a UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve since 973 and one of the most diverse coral reefs in Asia.

That's why you can see so many yachts here, which are rented locally by divers from all over the world and come here to dive.

Shangguan Qing is also a girl who likes diving very much, so when she sees such a beautiful coral reef, where can she move her feet?

"I said you don't have to worry about it, anyway, we'll be back in the evening, you can play for a while if you like to play, and if you really find anything, then I'll call you again." Lest you go into the mountains and drill indiscriminately, this weather is so hot, all kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants have come out again, and it will be troublesome to bite you at that time. Li Huan said: "Moreover, you have another advantage in the port, I always feel that someone is with me, you are here to guard, if there is any suspicious person, notify us immediately." ”

In the past few days, although Li Huan and Shangguan Qing have been together, he always feels that there is a pair of eyes staring at him. I can't say what is looking at him, but Li Huan always thinks that there is. Thinking of the sunset meeting in France, as well as the Aegis that has always been eyeing him, Li Huan feels that he should not be nervous. But in the past few days, he has searched back and forth many times, and secretly searched with mental power, but he still found nothing.

That's why Li Huan thought of this.

"Hmm......" Shangguan looked at the blue sea water hesitantly, plus what Li Huan said, there were still people following him, she nodded: "Okay, then if you find anything, call me immediately." Anyway, the island is not big, and I can find it right away. ”

After getting off the boat, according to the arrangement, Shangguan stayed on the beach to dive and play, and the two female bodyguards arranged the hotel, Li Huan took Li Ang and Rodman to leave the Sabang Bay pier, and took three taxis all the way south to the port at the northern end.

Malapaska is actually a very primitive island, only prosperous in the coastal areas, and as for the inland High Lorraine Mountains, it is actually a wild area, not to mention the roads, and even the people are barely visible. The two sites recorded in the data are all located in the High Lorraine Mountains, and one north and one south, with a straight-line distance of more than 60 kilometers in between. Therefore, it was obviously not appropriate to use ground transportation to survey these two sites in a short period of time, so they had to go into the port of Galera to rent a medium helicopter and enter the High Lorraine Mountains from the air to find the two hidden sites.

And one of the most critical reasons why he chose to use a helicopter is that Li Huan judged that the locations and coordinates recorded in the data were probably not so accurate - and there was not even a specific coordinate in the data, that is, through the description of the data, Xiao Fei was allowed to compare the locations. And it's been six hundred years, and God knows how much of a concept has taken place in terms of geography and appearance.

Especially since these sites have been in the mountains for more than hundreds of years, God knows what will change—you know, what is written on the data page is nothing more than a "tree that supports the sky". The so-called tree that supports the sky should be a huge tree?Xiao Fei finally compares the suspicious locations on this island. But 600 years have passed, is this so-called tree still alive? Even if it can live for so many years, will it be cut down by that lowly guy?

But Li Huan also wants to open it, even if the first point can't be found, it's not a big problem, just accumulate experience for the next search - looking for it on a beautiful tropical island, it's a little hotter, but it's much better than going to the bitter Siberian Wilderness, right?

As a famous tourist destination in the whole Philippines, it is still very prosperous, and with relatively familiar people, Leon quickly rented a medium-sized helicopter. This helicopter can take a total of eight people, including the pilot, Li Huan and his party are exactly eight people, Li Ang pilots the helicopter, and even the pilot does not need to be hired. After filling the helicopter's luggage compartment, several people boarded the brand-new helicopter. In the words of the lessor, the helicopter has only been purchased for two months, and it has flown less than 2,000 kilometers in total.

The straight-line distance from the port to Li Huan's destination was less than twenty-five kilometers, and not long after the helicopter took off, it arrived over the island forest area. It is an area at an altitude of more than a thousand meters above sea level, and the tropical vegetation is very abundant. As far as the eye can see, the lush rainforest is full of vitality, and compared with the rainforest of Mexico, it is two flavors. Mexico's tropical rainforests are lush and mysterious, giving birth to many mysterious cultures, which seem ancient and deep, while the island's rainforests are lively - birds of all colors hovering over the rainforest, and the canopies of trees are swaying by the sea breeze, which is very beautiful.

"Boss, where are we going?" Li Ang flew over the rainforest, and then asked Li Huan: "I haven't seen any very tall trees yet, how tall is this tree?"

"I don't know how high it is, you fly according to the GPS coordinates first, 17.31 degrees north latitude, 13.09 degrees in movement, just this coordinate, there is a hill that is not high or low, go over there first. Li Huan pondered for a moment: "The tree that supports the sky is not necessarily a very tall tree, or maybe it is another metaphor, in short, let's go over and take a look first." ”

"Holo...... Well, we need to fly for half an hour to get there. "After setting the coordinates on the GPS, Leon flew straight towards this coordinate.

According to the materials taken out by the hermitage, the Aztec royal family at that time described three locations, the easiest to find and the first place that Dumbo compared, was at the foot of a hill where two major rivers meet on the island of Malapascal. Because this is a tropical alpine region with abundant rainfall, you can see a small river in almost every valley. Looking down from the helicopter, the verdant forest is divided by silver ribbons that flow freely. Little by little, these small rivers will come together to form a relatively large river, which rushes and roars into the Pacific Ocean.

Half an hour was not a long time, and soon the helicopter arrived at the first coordinate point given by Li Huan. According to Li Huan, although this "tree supporting the sky" is not necessarily a huge tree, it must have something to do with tall things. Leon let the helicopter hover in mid-air, and the group began to search around. Li Ang Rodman took out the binoculars, Li Huan released the sub-machine, and after a long search, he did not find any signs of "the tree that supports the sky" here.

The tropical rainforest is like this, all the plants here are highly unified, there will be no special plants, Li Huan himself can hardly imagine, in the tropical island often more than a dozen winds, if a single tree that stands out in the forest grows, how much damage will be suffered. The tropical rainforest is highly uniform in terms of tree height, precisely to cope with the bad weather. If a tree grows too tall and loses the protection of its canopy, it will inevitably break off in one tropical hurricane after another.

"Boss, I don't see anything tall, this place seems to have everything long

It's got to be the same!" Leon complained, "Why don't I fly farther away and have a wider range?"

"I don't see it either...... Actually, I've wanted to say for a long time, there can't be any trees that are too tall in the rainforest. The Philippines is a tropical hurricane belt, and if there is any tree that has not been broken for 600 years, it must be titanium. Rodman also nodded in agreement: "Did we misunderstand?" Boss, do you think we need to go down and see?"

Li Ang Rodman and the others looked at it for a long time and didn't find it, and Li Huan's two submachines had no new clues, which made Li Shao a little disappointed. But then Li Huan was a little amused by his greed. You must know that there are three places recorded in the materials of the hermitage, how can it be that all three places are buried with bones? No matter how awesome Tlaltai Cootli is, and if she suppresses the whole audience, she is still a human being, and if she is a human being, she can only grow one head!

"Probably. Li Huan nodded, while secretly saying that he was greedy, and also accepted Rodman and Li Ang's suggestion: "Okay, I'm here anyway, maybe I misunderstood, let's go down and take a look." ”

Although it is a mountainous area, except for the river, almost all the rest of the place is covered by lush primeval jungle, and trees dozens of meters high abound here, and the lush canopy is connected together, which really covers the sky and the sun. Li Huan and the three wanted to land to find it carefully, but the plane couldn't even find the landing location, although there were no trees in the river, but the river was full of house-sized stones, which were all washed down from the mountain by the mountain torrent, and the helicopter couldn't land at all.

Leon flew the helicopter in a long circle, and only found a rare small area that was not covered by trees about two kilometers away from this location, and then landed the plane there safely.

After getting off the plane, all three of them were equipped and headed for the location two kilometers away.

"Damn, I hate the rainforest!" Rodman, who opened the way in front, spat and turned on the spit mode after picking off a colorful poisonous snake with a mountain opener: "Hey, I didn't swear not to enter the rainforest before, and I don't want to deal with the rainforest again in my life, what are you afraid of." ”

"Okay, you shut up, if it weren't for the boss, you wouldn't be able to afford a car now!" Leon complained to Rodman mercilessly: "Turn your voice down, the boss is thinking about the problem." ”

When Li Ang and Rodman left Mexico, they swore that they would never have anything to do with the rainforest in their lives, and in the end, Li Huan brought a sentence. The environment here is even harsher than the Mexican rainforest, and when looking for "paradise" in the Mexican rainforest, most of them are high-altitude areas, at least not so sultry. But the average altitude here is only about 1,000 meters, and the place to go is less than 700 meters above sea level, so the temperature and humidity here are much greater than those of the tropical rainforests of Central America.

In Rodman's words, it reminded him of the world's largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon rainforest in South America, where he had been on a mission - full of trees that shaded the sky and the sun, and between the trees, all kinds of shrubs and vines cramped the already limited space tightly, coupled with the ubiquitous snakes and insects, it was a disaster to move forward in this environment.

"Rodman, is this really the same as the Amazon rainforest?" Li Huan has never been to the Amazon, but he often sees it on TV, so he is still a little curious about this term.

Before Rodman could speak, Leon behind him turned his head and said: "It's more terrifying than here, if it were me, I'd rather be here than go to a ghost place like the Amazon, that place can really kill people." ”

Saying this, Li Ang seemed to remember some bad memory, and his body couldn't help but shudder. was about to say something, when he was suddenly pulled by Li Huan and stumbled. I saw Li Huan turn over his hand and take out a bullet, and then shook it casually, and after a yellow light flashed, a big fluffy spider the size of a child's palm was nailed to the trunk of the big tree beside Li Ang.

"Damn!" Leon scolded, "That's why I hate the rainforest." ”

Li Huan smiled and said: "Be careful, this is one of the bird-catching spiders, highly poisonous! A few years ago, there was a report that an elderly Filipino man was bitten by this spider, and as a result, his entire right leg was amputated. Of course, it may be the result of this horror caused by other infections, but if you are to be bitten by this spider, it will be even worse than a king cobra bite. ”

This big furry spider not only looks terrifying, but if you do bite it, the effect will definitely be even more terrifying. The group of three people walked hard for more than an hour in the dense tropical jungle before completing the two-kilometer journey.

However, when Li Ang held the GPS to locate this coordinate, everyone was a little dumbfounded. For there is nothing to be found here but the trees and the ubiquitous vines.

"Could it be that I made a mistake in the first one?" The situation in front of him made Li Huan a little suspicious: "Am I thinking wrong, this tree that supports the sky is actually a meaning, or an object, or a landmark?"

"Boss, that's hard to find. Rodman sighed.

In fact, in this kind of tropical rainforest, let alone more than 600 years, even if it is only six days, everything will be covered by dense vegetation. However, to look for anomalies in this kind of rainforest is tantamount to. Look for a needle in a haystack.

However, there is a saying that hard work pays off, not to mention, the three of them made a preliminary search here, and they really found some clues. As Leon tripped over something as he searched around, he slashed the vines in front of him as if he were venting, revealing a log color underground.

"Boss, look, this is a wooden stake!" Li Ang immediately became excited: "What a big wooden stake!"

He dragged and dragged the stake along the perimeter of the stake, and when Li Huan Rodman arrived, the three of them were a little dumbfounded when they looked at the huge stake.

Huge, really huge.

This is a wooden stake left over from a giant tree that has been cut down by man, and its area is nearly 30 square meters! This 30 square meters of wooden stake is crawling in the ground, I don't know how many years have passed, the root system grows around, and many small saplings have grown, and it has been preserved until now!

"It's ...... This is a banyan tree. Li Huan distinguished: "Look at the area of the trunk...... This old banyan tree is probably more than 1,000 years old......"

"More than a thousand years old, is this the towering wood we are talking about!" Leon and Rodman became excited.

"Maybe, maybe not, let's take a closer look around. Li Huan said.

I don't know when the old banyan tree in front of me was cut down, just by looking at the trunk it left behind, I know how big it is - not to mention the trunk, the hundreds of roots and veins that branch out grow new trunks in order to supply nutrients to it, and the thickest one can only be hugged by three or four adults - on the roots and veins of this old banyan tree, I don't know how many such trees have been born, sons and grandsons, and a single tree becomes a forest, this is a single tree into a forest.

Li Huan always thought that a single tree into a forest was an adjective, but he didn't expect it today

Saw the realistic version. If there is a tree in this world, then this old banyan tree that still has a stump left must be one of them. Therefore, all three of them launched their spiritual powers, and searched carefully, not letting go of the slightest clue.

Not to mention, this search really found a place like no other.

This place is not in the woods formed by this old banyan tree alone, but in a jungle about thirty meters away from this old banyan tree, which is the place where Rodman discovered. Although it is a mountainous area, the ground is not very undulating, but in the rainforest about 30 meters away from the old banyan tree, a large mound of earth that seems to be a grave bag suddenly appeared. This large mound is 100 square meters in circumference and 3 meters high, but this large mound is hidden deep in the rainforest, and it is almost impossible to find this large mound without walking in front of it.

"Boss, this mound is indeed a bit abnormal, in this mountainous area, it is said that there should not be such a mound, it should be artificial. If you look at the trees and shrubs on this mound, especially the trees, they are obviously not very old, not even a hundred years old, and the trees around the mound are at least two or three hundred years old. So, these trees on this mound should have grown on their own later. After Rodman summoned Li Huan, he stood beside the two and analyzed.

Li Huan looked at it for a long time and nodded, "That's right, the vegetation on this big mound is indeed a little different from the surrounding vegetation." ”

"Boss, there is a big rock here, it seems that something is not quite right, can you come and take a look?" Li Ang's cry sounded on the other side of the mound, and Li Huan immediately pulled away the vines above his head when he heard this, and walked quickly towards that side.

"Boss, there's a big rock here, and it doesn't look like it's natural, but it looks like someone has moved it here. Leon pointed to a large stone covered in vines and moss and said, "This is volcanic rock, and it shouldn't have fallen to this place, but it seems that someone deliberately put it here to sit on the mark." ”

The stone was more than a man long and about a meter seven wide, lying on the ground, wrapped in various vegetation, and I don't know how thick it was.

"Clean it up and see if there's any markings on it. Li Huan pondered for a moment, and casually waved out several spiritual qis, cutting the moss and vines wrapped around the stone, revealing the true color of the stone. That's right, this is a piece of volcanic rock, the surface is rough black, and there is no volcano on this island, let alone such a whole piece of volcanic rock, so this thing must have been transported from somewhere else and placed here.

"That's right, boss, we may be the first to find the right place, this stone must have been specially transported by someone!" Rodman slapped his thigh: "Hey, if only there was a way to get it away." However, this stone is estimated to be at least seven or eight tons, and it is difficult for us to move this stone without the tools at hand. ”

With a weight of seven or eight tons, Li Huan can't gather it, and there is a way for him to smash this stone and move him away, but now any clue is precious and cannot be easily moved. If you want to move a boulder weighing seven or eight tons, you can't damage it, and Li Huan can't think of a good way: "It's okay if you can't move it, if you can't move it, dig it and see what is underneath around this stone!"

Compared to moving the boulder, the soil here is softer, so digging is easier.

Although the three of them didn't bring tools that could move the boulder away, they still carried the convenient and lightweight sapper shovel, so after Li Huan's order, several people immediately danced the sapper shovel in their hands and dug up on the side of the boulder.

The soil is so soft that these sharp sapper shovels dig to a depth of more than a meter very quickly. With a crisp "ding", it is not known whose sapper shoveled a hard object under the soil. Leon immediately exclaimed excitedly, "There's something down there, it doesn't feel like a rock!"

Li Huan and Rodman immediately came to Li Ang's side when they heard this, and the three of them quickly cleaned up the surrounding dirt.

It was indeed not a rock underneath, but a rusty sheet of metal. Looking at the color, it should be copper alloy - this made Li Huan a little excited, many ancient people knew that iron would rust, so when storing items for a long time, copper alloy was chosen to make preservation utensils. In terms of corrosion resistance and oxidation resistance, copper is hundreds of times more resistant than iron. After seeing this copper plate, the three of them were overjoyed, and quickly cleared out the pit more than one meter deep, and even found out the thickness of this big stone, which was one and a half meters thick!

In other words, the weight of this boulder is definitely more than 20 tons!

This stone is pressed against a copper alloy plate, and if it were not for the width of the boulder and the narrowness of the bottom, the edge of the iron plate that was pressed would not really be exposed. Rodman crouched down, knocked on the iron plate with a sapper shovel, and said in surprise: "It's empty down there!"

In fact, even if you don't knock, a few people can understand what it means that a copper alloy plate that has been crushed by a boulder suddenly appears in this inaccessible primeval jungle. No one will be idle to press such a large stone on a copper alloy plate, that is to say, there must be a cavity dug by hand under this copper alloy plate, and the big mound next to the boulder is probably the soil dug out when digging this underground cave, indicating that no matter who dug out this underground cave and what it dug for, it must be very large.

When Li Huan saw this, he was not so happy.

There may be something underneath this, but it's unlikely that it's the bones you're looking for.

You know, the Aztec royal family came ashore alone, and he was really idle to dig such a big cave in this kind of ghost place where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs? Judging from that big mound, the space below this is obviously not small, otherwise it would be impossible to dig up so much soil -- even if he was idle and made such a big place in the rainforest, it is impossible for Ken's copper alloy plate to be created out of nothing, right? This volcanic rock can't be the egg pain he dug a pit and was idle, and he specially found it from other places, right?

And the most important thing is that whether it is from the trees on the mound or from the degree of rust of this iron plate, this trace is no more than a hundred years at most, and no one in the Aztecs six hundred years ago could master this copper alloy technology. Take 10,000 steps back and say that if the Aztec Empire had mastered this alloy technology, the Spanish conquistadors would have been beaten to before they even landed. Metallurgy is the foundation of a country, just like today, everyone knows the structure of an aircraft carrier, and any country can build it - but the problem is that the right steel cannot be built to build this superweapon.

Metallurgy is so important.

Therefore, Li Huan is sure that this copper alloy plate should not be left by the Aztec royal family back then. And with the laziness of the Filipinos, this project certainly could not have been done by the Filipinos, and of course, it could not have been done by the colonizers Citigroup. Several people thought for a long time, and finally Li Huan made up his mind: "What are you doing with so much, continue to dig, let's dig it and see! No matter who it is, digging such a big pit here inexplicably, is it telling me that it is digging and playing?"