Chapter 144: Ruins
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Sure enough, it was a sacrificial well, Lu Qingchen sighed, he couldn't really read these complex ancient characters, he could only understand a few words in them, but with the portrayal of the well, he could guess the general meaning. Some of the people who volunteered to be sacrificed were sent into the well, they were entangled in huge tentacles, some knelt down towards the mouth of the well, and finally the eggs cracked. Lu Qingchen only remembered that this was some kind of ultra-ancient script, but he didn't remember which period it belonged to.
There was also a rope in the backpack, and he decisively dragged the grinding disc left behind in the courtyard, and the rope was tied to the grinding disc, and the disc jammed the wellhead, and he slowly lowered it like this...... Illuminate the surroundings with a flashlight. The walls of the well were stained with blood, and most of it was covered with dark yellow stains. The stains were actually moss, which once fed on blood and crawled frantically all over the walls of the well, but quickly decayed....... Moss is a very tenacious creature after all, and the water vapor brought by the constant fog in the Zenith Temple still made it hold on for a long time.
But now it's a withered yellow corpse, at least as it happened thirty or forty years ago. These dark red traces of blood were also left from the same period.
A few steps further, Lu Qingchen smelled a slight fishy smell.
The flashlight started flashing, "Please, not now." Lu Qingchen shook hard, and the flashlight light was much stronger, but it was completely extinguished after only half a minute. Lu Qingchen could only go down in the dark, he needed to pull the rope tightly with both hands, and bit the flashlight in his mouth, so he really had no time to replace the battery.
He found that the upper part of the well was very dry, but there was a lot of water vapor rising in the lower part, and the surrounding temperature had plummeted, and it was estimated that it had dropped to about five degrees at once.
His feet finally fell to the ground, and with a "click", as if he had stepped on some kind of water-rich object, it should be a lush moss, Lu Qingchen took out the battery from his backpack, but his hands were so cold that he shivered, and he actually dropped the battery to the ground. Only then did he touch the slippery, cold object on the ground, which was definitely not moss.
Lu Qingchen quietly stepped back, filled the battery into the barrel, and turned on the switch of the flashlight....... All he saw was a disgusting puddle of flesh, some creature covered in fish scales, and he had stepped on the creature's back as he fell from the well. Its surface seemed to be particularly fragile, and Lu Qingchen's weight of only a hundred catties had crushed it. The creature was about the height of an adult man, and it smelled of fish, and Lu Qingchen couldn't tell whether it was the smell of itself or the smell of the black blood and internal organs that he had stepped on.
He kicked the carrion a few times, and it looked like it had been dead for a long time.
There are dead flies all around.
However, there were no maggots, scavengers or other animals in the carcass. At this moment, another fly was attracted by the stench, and its mouthparts had just sucked a mouthful of carrion, and its limbs twitched, and it struggled to escape, but soon died on the ground. The blood of this thing is poisonous. It's a pity that the monster has been deeply decayed, and he can't see his appearance before birth at all, so Lu Qingchen can only continue to walk into the darkness.
He understood the source of the water vapor, and that there was a channel below the well, and at the end of the channel was a river, where groundwater was rushing. Could it be a tributary of the great river of the Zenith? No, Lu Qingchen illuminated the water surface with a flashlight, only a slight current surged, and the bottom of the water was so clear. The blood rain has been raining all night, and the rain is particularly dense, with at least a hundred millimeters of precipitation. If it was connected to the back mountain river, the blood here would have turned red, but it didn't.
Could it be that there is a mysterious dark river underground?
Lu Qingchen stood up, and he found that there were murals on both sides of the passage under the well.
The content of the murals is related to sacrifices, including the sacrificial technique of cutting off the head and cutting the heart, and the terrifying scene of the tentacles splitting the corpse....... The mural is exquisitely carved and lifelike, but it is such a terrible scene. According to the frescoes, this passage was only the entrance, and it was a sacrificial shrine that was submerged underwater.
There was a wooden boat at the entrance of the aisle, which must have been submerged in water, but because of the alluvial current, it washed it ashore.
Why are there wooden boats? Lu Qingchen looked at this wooden boat again, it can accommodate about seven people, it is the kind of slender and long kayak, but the workmanship is rough, and it was built in a hurry.
Lu Qingchen pushed the wooden boat into the river, and then the current turned it over, and after careful inspection, there were many scratches on the inside of the wooden boat. It must have hit a reef, and someone was shipwrecked in this wooden boat and left to drift.
Dark Hanoi.
Lin Fan said: "The disappeared scientific expedition team. ”
"Huh?" Yuno frowned slightly, "You can be clear." ”
Lin Fan said: "When I was first transferred to the border city police station, the bureau sorted out the files, and I saw some old files, including the case of the disappearance of the scientific expedition team. Although more than 40 years have passed since the case, it is still recorded, and the missing person may be found. ”
Yuno looked at the ripples in the water, "Could it be that the scientific expedition team has entered the .......?"
"Yes, I only remembered it when I heard you talk about the ancient inscriptions above the river." Lin Fan said: "These scientific expedition members are chasing the disappeared ancient civilization, they also went to the police station to ask for assistance, at that time, the Anti-Japanese War had just ended, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, and the scientific expedition team was the one who took the lead, and I admired them." ”
Yuno said: "Then they are missing.......
"Ah, the last place where they disappeared was the Zenith Temple, witnesses said that these people were still searching in the temple one second, and disappeared the next second, and there was no news left."
"Sure enough, the temple is connected to the river."
"What if you figure it out, we can't get out, what kind of monster is in the water?" Yuno was a little anxious, although she knew the nature of the water, and could even fight with the big crocodile, but she was afraid of the black underwater, who knows how many such monsters there are? Maybe she won't even be able to kill one....... Even purebred wolf spirits are prone to drowning, and their unusually tough lungs can last for up to ten minutes underwater.
There was a sound of "boom, boom" running water all around, and the group had already floated over a drinking road, and the slope dropped sharply, almost a 45-degree slope, and rushed the raft downward.
"Pull tight!"
Everyone hurriedly grabbed the edge of the raft, and suddenly the water splashed, and the blue-gray fish monster was hanging on the slope, refusing to come down. Even it knew the danger was there, and countless of its kind lost contact with each other deep underground. The current was turbulent, and suddenly a huge reef of more than 20 meters stood in the center, and the edges and corners had been smoothed by the current. (To be continued.) )