Chapter 177: The Giant Cave
Liu Sheng listened to the conversation between the two on the side, looked at Yuan Tao in surprise and asked.
"Didn't I tell you, young man, that I'm just a wanderer who has been crawling in this desert for more than twenty years. If you've been in this desert for so many years, you don't need me to teach you, and I'm sure you know more than I do. Hehe. ”
Yuan Tao ignored Liu Sheng and continued to look for information.
Most of this ruins have been buried by the wind and sand, and only this ancient city wall remains.
When she first discovered this ruin, she regarded it as a mirage, but now that she came to her eyes, it was just a lonely city wall, and Hu Xinyi was very disappointed, pouting, and kicking the sand under her feet. It seemed that he was still not angry, and grabbed the stone in the dust and threw it away, kicking here for a while, kicking there for a while, and suddenly with an "ah" scream, he squatted down and rubbed the foot that had just kicked the sand with both hands.
"What's wrong?Xinyi, what did you kick?" Liu Sheng ran over, picked Hu Xinyi up, and asked with concern.
Hu Xinyi slapped Liu Sheng's shoulder while complaining, screaming bitterly: "What kind of ghost ruins is this, it's not fun at all." The sand kicked hard rocks and almost broke my toes. Ah, it hurts, it hurts, help me rub it. Yes. ”
Hanwa stepped forward and played with the place where Hu Xinyi kicked and hit her foot just now, and soon a hard object appeared, which was a square hard stone, obviously repolished and carved.
"Brother Xiaofeng, come and see, there are stones here. Hanwa shouted at Zhuo Feng.
Zhuo Feng heard the voice and hurriedly walked over, and Chen Xiaoyan also came over.
Zhuo Feng walked in and looked at the raised hard stone, and hurriedly asked Hanwa to dig down again.
Yuan Tao and He Changjun also came over and joined the excavation.
After about 20 minutes, the surrounding sand particles were removed, and a square stone about half a meter high appeared in front of everyone.
This square stone resembles the support of some kind of building, and it is like a pestle in a circle, the top is thin and thicker the further down, as if it is stacked layer by layer. The top layer is only 10 centimeters long and wide, but the next layer is 15 centimeters long and wide, and the polishing is quite standard. The protruding half-meter-high bottom is close to the dust, and it is almost 30 centimeters long and wide.
If this law continues, the buried part under the dust must not be a few meters long and wide?
Zhuo Feng thought to himself.
Looking closely at this strange stone, it is very strange to find that each layer is carved with incomprehensible characters. This stone is about fifty or sixty meters away from the ruined ancient city wall, and no matter how you look at it, there should not be such a stone here.
Chen Xiaoyan was busy recording everything she saw in front of her.
"Still digging it?" asked Liu Sheng.
"Hmm. ”
"Then I'll go and get a few tools to dig over, digging like this with my bare hands, it hurts my hands, if you want to practice iron sand palms, you can. Liu Sheng joked to himself as he walked towards the place where the luggage was placed to get the tools.
Seeing Zhuo Feng signaling to dig deeper, Yuan Tao and He Changjun took out a portable military shovel from their backpacks and dug up the sand. When Liu Sheng returned, he looked surprised: "I didn't expect you to be prepared." I searched for a long time, but I only found a few of these tools. As he spoke, he threw the tent stand in his hand to the ground.
"It's fine, as long as you can dig it. Zhuo Feng said, picking up a guy and quickly digging up the sand.
Seeing that there were already many parts of the strange stone emerging from the ground, Hanwa jumped off the sand pit and shook the stone.
Without exerting all his strength, the stone did not move at all, so Hanwa increased his strength again, and the stone moved slightly.
Hmm?
Yuan Tao and He Changjun saw it in their eyes, and they also jumped out of the sand pit, and the three of them pushed up the stone with all their strength at the same time.
Buzz!
As the stone moves, it makes a loud grinding sound.
As soon as the stone moved, there was a gap, and the surrounding sand seeped into the gap.
The three of them hurriedly got up from the sand pit, and as soon as they got up, there was a vibration under their feet, followed by a loud bang, and a huge hole appeared in the stone, and all the sand particles around it rushed to this side, and flowed down the sand hole into the ground, and everyone couldn't stand still, and they also slipped down and fell into the huge hole.
This strange stone turned out to be the location of a mechanism that led to the underground. The trio vigorously pushed to the stone, and then they touched the mechanism and opened the cavern that led to the underground.
Falling into a dark room where he couldn't see his fingers, Zhuo Feng hurriedly turned on his consciousness and looked around, except for one head, his whole body was buried in the sand.
Struggling to climb out of the sand, touching the back of his body, the backpack was still there, Zhuo Feng shouted: "Xiaoyan, where are you? Hanwa? Liu Sheng, Hu Xinyi, Brother Yuan, He Changjun, where are you?"
There was not a single echo around.
What's going on?
Didn't everyone fall together? Why can't you see anyone all of a sudden?
When Zhuo Feng was wondering, a hand grabbed his left foot.
Zhuo Feng was startled, and hurriedly turned around and took out a flashlight from his backpack and shone it under his feet.
It turned out to be Liu Sheng, and his whole body was buried in sand.
Hurriedly pulled him out of the mound of sand, helped him pat the sand off his body, and cleaned his face.
"What's the situation? Why did it fall?" asked Liu Sheng as he spit out the sand in his mouth and took out a flashlight from his backpack to shine around.
"Just now, they pushed the stone hard, and after the stone moved, they heard a loud bang, and a big hole appeared, and everyone was driven down by the flowing sand. Find out where the others are, and see if they're buried in the sand?"
After Zhuo Feng finished speaking, he picked up the flashlight with his mouth, and vigorously pulled his hands in the huge sand pile in front of him, Liu Sheng also joined in, and the two quickly looked for someone in the sand.
After a while, Chen Xiaoyan, Hanwa, and Hu Xinyi were pulled out of the sand by them.
"Woo woo woo, I didn't think I would 'die' like this once, and I was still buried alive in the sand. Woo woo. ”
Hu Xinyi said while crying and spitting the sand in her mouth.
Helping Chen Xiaoyan tidy up the sand on her body, Zhuo Feng asked, "What about Brother Yuan and He Changjun, why haven't you seen them?"
With the help of scattered flashlight light, everyone looked around, and then pulled in the sand for a while, but still found no trace of the two people.
"Look, everyone, are the carry-on backpacks still there, and what food and drinking water are there?"
Zhuo Feng said again.
Fortunately, it just slipped down from above, and all the sand that everyone dug aside just now seeped down from this huge hole, and everyone was buried, and the backpack was still there, and nothing was missing.
According to the statistics, there are five or six bottles of drinking water in each person's backpack, and two servings of fast food per person, which should be able to support until you go out and find the place where everyone put their bags before.
Everyone took out the flashlights in their backpacks, Hu Xinyi was timid, and even took out a self-defense dagger.
"Xinyi, don't be afraid, it's okay, if you want to have such an adventure in the future, you won't have a chance?" Chen Xiaoyan comforted Hu Xinyi, in fact, she was also afraid in her heart, but she knew that with Zhuo Feng here, he would not let herself be afraid.
The crowd raised their flashlights and looked around again.
It was a large hall, and the distance between the walls was almost more than 50 meters, how could such a large room be built at that time?
In addition to the sand where it fell just now, there is no sand grain around, it is dark and dark, look up at the giant hole that just fell, this hole is almost four meters high from the ground, but now there are no tools, and the wall can not be reached, and there is still a pile of sand on it, here is not the only exit that can be out.
Zhuo Feng turned on the flashlight and shone it on the ground, and found that the bricks on the ground, each of which was a square of equal size, about one meter long and wide.
The rock bricks on the ground alone are a huge project. The rock bricks are large and shiny, showing grandeur, and the light of the flashlight on the ground can be refracted away.
Zhuo Feng walked in front, and Chen Xiaoyan followed behind them to prevent accidents.
Soon the crowd figured out what was going on in the huge room.
The room was supposed to have a door due north and south on topography, but it was now closed and could not be opened. In the middle of the room was a circular platform, I don't know what it was used for, and four huge pillars supported the roof, each carved with a strange pattern that had not been seen in television documentaries or otherwise. The surrounding walls are also carved with similar strange patterns, including mountains, forests, beasts, and people dressed in gorgeous clothes, wearing ornaments, holding torches, and above the pattern are the sudden changes of the nebula, which is obviously what such people worship or sacrifice.
Zhuo Feng looked around for the opening method of the two doors, but unfortunately found nothing.
Everyone had no choice but to gather at the round platform to discuss countermeasures.
"Are everyone alright?" asked Zhuo Feng.
"Luckily, the air feels the same thinness as outside, but it doesn't feel hot inside. Chen Xiaoyan said.
"Well, I'm aware of that too. It's really cooler inside, and it stands to reason that we're not far below the sand, and the environment here should be similar to the outside, and it should feel stuffy. Zhuo Feng said.
"Doesn't it cool anyway, it's not cool? It's going to die of heat outside for most of the day. It's hard to get to such a place, isn't God giving us a chance to cool off?"
Liu Sheng sat on the ground with his buttocks, and a chill surged from his buttocks all over his body, and he couldn't help but shiver.
"Well, that's how it feels. Cool. Liu Sheng felt that he was not satisfied, so he put his feet on the round platform, held his head in his hands, and lay on the ground to nap.
With a click, Liu Sheng's feet seemed to touch something on the round platform, and the round platform clicked for a while, and Liu Sheng was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew his feet and stood up to look over.
I saw that the round platform, which was only a little above the ground before, slowly rotated and rose slowly after a click.
This round platform is about two meters in diameter, and it is also carved with strange patterns, which is puzzling.
The round platform rose about a meter, then stopped rotating with a click and calmed down.
When everyone looked at it, they found that this round table was also supported by a cylinder much smaller than the round table scripture, but at different times, this column had spiral tooth openings, and each tooth mouth was designed exactly the same, as if pressed out by modern precision machines.
It seems to be another organ.
"Where did you touch it just now? Don't touch it at random next time, there should be a mechanism or something like that, and if you're not careful, you won't know if you're shot into a hornet's nest." ”
Frightened, Liu Sheng hurriedly gathered his limbs, made a straight position, and remained motionless.