He was looking at the stone pillar in a daze, but Du Qin had already glanced around, and saw that there was a large hole in the stone wall on the side, and there were several piles of wood-like things in it, like firewood in the countryside, so he hurriedly ran over in three steps.

The wood was thicker than his arm, and he picked a smaller one, picked it up, and smashed and kicked it with the big tooth, tossing and turning for a while, and then he made a few pieces.

At this time, Daya's shirt was almost burned, and Du Qin quickly took off his shirt and lit it, and then put the wood on fire, and after a while, a fire was lit, and the whole cave suddenly became bright.

After staying in the dark for too long, the fire was bright this time, but it was a little uncomfortable, and several people closed their eyes. When I opened it again, I felt that the whole stone room was much brighter, and when I looked at it carefully, I saw that the stone walls around were craggy, but it was dark and misty, and it was not reflective, and four stone caves were dug symmetrically on all sides, all of which were full of firewood, which should be a storage room, and Du Qin went over and picked out some small wooden sticks that could be held in his hand, and came over and lit them on the fire, making them into torches.

Daya looked around and saw that although the cave was big, it was simple and empty, and he couldn't help but be disappointed, "Damn, is this a family with four walls?" It seems that they are also a group of poor ghosts! ”

Du Qin glared at him: "Will the local tyrants come to live in this cave?" Do you think this is a summer resort or a nightclub? ”

Wu Chen carried a torch and walked to the stone altar in the middle, this stone altar does not look high, only two layers, but each layer is also more than 1 meter high, and when he got closer, he found that the first layer below was about three meters wider than the upper layer, and there was a two-meter-wide and one-meter-deep groove on it, and it was boxy around the stone altar, and there was some black carbon ash in it, and it was poked with a wooden stick, and the upper layer was a little stiff, and I don't know how many years ago the road was left.

Wu Chen saw that this altar was a little strange, put the torch on it, propped it up, stood on the edge of the stone trough, and turned over to the second layer, this layer is not big, the length and width are about three meters, the diameter of the stone pillar erected in the middle is more than one meter, and it is stunned to tower there, accounting for half of the stone platform, and there are some fire patterns engraved on it, and the carvings are very deep.

"What are these poor ghosts burning here?" Big Tooth walked over and rummaged through the stone trough, but found nothing but a thick layer of charcoal ash.

"It doesn't matter what it is, it's not going to burn people anyway. Rest for a while, let's find a way out of the road, it's suffocating, it's uncomfortable! Duchin took a torch and looked for the exit along the four walls around him, his shirt was burned, revealing a body of dark muscles, and he did a few chest expansion exercises, his chest muscles trembled, and his big teeth were dwarfed by him.

"That's not necessarily, maybe this is the place where the ancients cremated and burned their bodies!" Wu Chen sat down, rested on the stone pillar, and saw that the big tooth was still turning over the black ashes, so he deliberately scared him.

"Bah, bah......" Big Tooth hurriedly withdrew his hand, feeling unlucky, spit a few mouthfuls of saliva, and leaned over to sit down, "Why do I feel evil in this place?" You said that if this is a crematorium, how many ghosts must be trapped in this cave and can't get out! ”

That's what I said! Wu Chen felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, glared at him, clenched the torch in his hand tighter, stood up to the stone pillar, and looked at the carvings.

Big Tooth also came over to look at it for a while, but he didn't see anything famous, but he couldn't suppress his excitement, "This is Huabiao, right?" Such a thick one, it is not worse than the two at Tiananmen! And I don't know when the road was made, you said that this is going to get out, it should be worth some money! ”

Wu Chen was not sure if it was Huabiao, so he glanced at his big teeth and said angrily, "Save it, how big of a project will this thing get?" Besides, who are you selling to! As soon as it was dug up, it was requisitioned by the state! I have to ask you why you came here, you can't say that you drank too much and went crazy in the middle of the night! ”

The so-called Huabiao is a huge stone pillar used for decoration in front of large buildings such as ancient palaces and mausoleums, also known as Shinto pillars, stone pillars, tables, labels, and pillars, which are generally composed of a base, a dragon pillar, a dew plate and a squatting beast on it. The body of the column is carved with dragons and phoenixes and other patterns, and the upper part is horizontally inserted with carved stone slabs.

The pattern of this stone pillar is simple, only the burning fire pattern, and there is no dew plate, but there is a carved thing on it, but unfortunately the shadow is so good that I can't see what it is. And there is no palace here, could it be that there is a mausoleum hidden behind that wall?

The more Wu Chen thought about it, the more chilled he became, only to feel that the surroundings were gloomy. Du Qin walked over, and looking at the expression on his face, he knew that he had gained nothing.

"You see that the stone cave is blackened, the soot is embedded in the stone wall, there must be people who often burn fires here, and the fire pattern carved on this stone pillar will be some kind of ritual altar?" Big Tooth circled around the stone pillar, and the more he looked, the more he felt that this place was an altar.

"What you kid said this time is a bit reliable, in "Imperial Century" it is said: 'Bearing wood with fire, located in the south, the main summer, so it is called Emperor Yan.'" Although Emperor Yan is in the land of Chu and Han, it is true that the southern Fang Kingdom worships fire. Wu Chen was reminded by him and couldn't help but agree.

"Tsk, that's a spectacular scale! With this kind of work, why build it underground, where it is not ventilated, and it does not smoke people to death? Big Tooth raised his head and continued to use his ingenuity.

"It's a bit strange, the tribes that worship fire also worship the sun, and they are generally in the wilderness, and they can see the sun. Why is this here to be built? Is it a secret tribe? Or is there another special reason? Wu Chen was full of questions, only to feel that there was a flash of thought in his mind, but he didn't catch it.

"What's so strange about this! There are so many reasons! Du Qin said nonchalantly, not interested in them entangled in this kind of metaphysical problem, "It may be that the country has been destroyed by someone and hid in a cave, or it may be to fool people and make it mysterious, or it can also be a group of neurotics, who have nothing to do when they are full." Just like us, we ran in this black mountain ravine in the middle of the night. What's there to think about here! Hurry up and find a way to get out, brother, I haven't taken a daughter-in-law yet, but I don't want to ascend to heaven! ”

"Wait! What did you say? Du Qin's words suddenly touched Wu Chen, and a thought gradually became clear in his mind.

"What are you doing, you're shocked! I don't understand Ascension! It's burp, go see Marx! Du Qin saw that Wu Chen suddenly looked serious, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"That's right! It is the ascension! Wu Chen patted his head! Looking at the surrounding trough, and then at the stone pillar, "The ancients believed that after death, the soul can ascend to heaven!" Whether it is cremation, water burial, sky burial, or different paths, they all end up in the same place, all for the purpose of ascending to heaven. I wonder if this place is really a crematorium, you see, put firewood under the stone trough around here, and put the corpse on it, isn't it just right to be cremated? ”

Big Tooth was dumbfounded, Mom, this imagination is too rich, the question is that the top of the stone pillar is the top of the cave, where does it come from? When I thought of so many ghosts who couldn't get out and were scattered in this cave, I couldn't help but shudder, and forced a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, it's dark here, where does the sky come from?" ”

"It's this pillar, after the dead have been cremated, the souls are collected, and they go up along this stone pillar carved with fire patterns, isn't it possible to ascend to heaven?" Wu Chen continued along the train of thought.

At this time, Du Qin's face also turned green: "You mean, the middle of this stone pillar is empty, and it is a passage upward!" ”

"I don't know how to do it, but if it's this logic, then the weirdness must be on this pillar!" Wu Chen touched the stone pillar and patted it with his palm, it was quite thick, and he couldn't tell if it was hollow!

The three of them searched around the stone pillar, but found no place to enter or exit.

When Du Qin saw that the fire patterns were deeply carved, he asked Big Tooth to climb up and see what was going on on the pillar. As soon as Big Tooth thought of the countless ghosts, he curled up this pillar, and he was not happy in his heart, and he couldn't stand the urging of the two people, so he had to carefully grasp his hands and feet and climb up.

Wu Chen and Du Qin were afraid that he would fall, so they stood below and spread their hands, ready to pick him up at any time, only to see Big Tooth slowly climb to the top, grasping the statue above with one hand, and stretching out the other hand to make a V-shape, showing off.

Seeing that Big Tooth looked like a stinky fart, Wu Chen couldn't wait to kick him a few times, urging him to hurry up and look for it, to see if there was anything unusual, at this time, the cave was a little difficult to breathe because the fire had been burning for a long time, and the air was sparse in a closed cave like this, I really don't know how the people who built this altar burned the fire back then.

Big Tooth smiled, then turned his head, carefully observed the sculpture, in fact, it was a round ball, the surface was uneven and concave and convex and could not see anything ghostly, so he smashed it with his fist, it didn't feel like a solid one, but he couldn't find a joint gap, it seemed that this pillar was actually carved from a piece of material as a whole.

Seeing that he didn't find anything, and felt that his hands and feet were a little tired, he thought about climbing up and sitting down to rest his breath. When I looked up, I found that the ball was less than 50 centimeters away from the top of the hole, and it was possible to get into it on my stomach, but it was not enough to sit down, so I couldn't help but feel a little stupid. He held the ball with one hand and lit a cigarette with the other, thinking in his heart how to get the ball down to see.

As soon as the lighter shined, Big Tooth suddenly found that the top of his head, smoky, carefully observed, it turned out that the top of the stone chamber was an arch, and the smoke from the fire burning below was partly diffused into the air, and the rest rose to the top, and slowly gathered in the center along the vault.

He hurriedly shouted loudly and told the two people below about the situation.

After listening to this, Wu Chen became more and more sure of his guess, judging from the charcoal ash in the stone trough, in this closed stone room, there had been countless firewood, and it stands to reason that there should be a vent or exhaust port, otherwise the air would not be enough for those firewood to burn.

Thinking of this, Wu Chen shouted loudly, asking Daya to carefully inspect the vault above the pillar, especially the place where the smoke gathered! Sure enough, the big tooth probe groped through the smoke for a while, and found that in the middle of the top, there was movement in a place about the size of a pillar.

He tried, holding the place with his palms, pushing hard from side to side, but his strength was too small, so he let Duchin climb up on the other side of the pillar, and the two of them pushed the top plate to the side, revealing a hole about the size of a column, and the smoke stuck to the top wall, flowed into the hole, and went straight up.

Big Tooth cheered, and he bravely drilled up to explore the way. After waiting for him to go up, Duchin handed him the torch. Wu Chen also climbed up here, and when he saw the big tooth calling on it, he also climbed up along the entrance of the cave.

Because there was still smoke coming out, choking so badly, Wu Chen finally climbed for a while, and then his head was exposed, but there was a larger stone room than just now, only to see the big tooth that came up first, holding a torch, looking for the stone wall on one side, which seemed to be an arc-shaped stone wall.

After going through the hole, I was about to rest for a while when I heard Big Tooth shouting, "Finally found something that wasn't stone!" Come here! ”