Bai Yang and the others listened quietly to Ding Lingling's narration, but Ding Lingling paused when she mentioned the word "disaster", and did not continue for a long time.

Hong Xing couldn't help but ask, "What kind of disaster is it?" Why didn't Sister Lingling go on?"

"I don't know how to go on!" Ding Lingling smiled bitterly, "because...... As mentioned above, eight days ago, a muffled sound suddenly came from the direction of the Celestial Elephant Country, and the entire earth trembled slightly by this muffled sound, and then a mushroom-like dark cloud rose from the direction of the Celestial Elephant Country!"

With an "ahh

Iron Bull blurted out, "This, this, this...... How is that possible?"

Anyone with a modicum of knowledge knows that mushroom clouds only form when the Big Bang is extremely strong.

And this extremely strong big bang, apart from nuclear explosions, is only a volcanic eruption.

But this ancient book from a thousand years ago actually mentions a mushroom cloud, and at the same time as the mushroom cloud rises, there is a loud sound?

Could it be that there was a nuclear explosion here more than 1,000 years ago?

Could it be that the reason why the Celestial Elephant Kingdom disappeared was because of a nuclear explosion?

Of course that's impossible, and it's incredible to think about it!

But if it weren't for a nuclear explosion, could it have been a volcanic eruption in this great desert?

Several people looked at each other, and no one could say a word for a long time.

On the other hand, Chen Dalin was waiting in a hurry, and shouted: "What kind of treasure is there down there, why don't you go down? If you don't come up, I'll go down too!"

Bai Yang woke up and said with a wry smile: "The old man has been fighting all his life, and now he has clearly found an ancient cellar, but he is not allowed to come down to take a look, which really makes him uncomfortable enough, or Tie Niu, you go up and change the old man down!"

"I'd like to hear the story, and besides, there's Max up there!" Iron Bull wasn't very happy.

"Max hasn't experienced this, those white bones on the top have scared him enough, if you don't go up to accompany him, he will definitely follow! But we must keep people on the upper side, so as not to have an accident! Besides, what will happen later, can I not tell you when I go up?"

Tie Niu scratched his scalp and finally said, "Okay then, I'll listen to you!"

The cellar was not too deep, Tie Niu grabbed the bluestone slab on it with his hands, and with a force of his feet, he jumped out directly with a "Teng" sound.

Poplar shook his head secretly, thinking that he must be reminded after he went out, not to look so different in everything.

The others were stunned again.

Even Hong Xing opened her mouth and said, "What's the matter, it seems that the Iron Bull is really different from before! But today is not the night of the full moon, it shouldn't be...... What's the reason for that?"

It wasn't until later that she realized about the blood wolf and the elixir, and even Chen Xiaopang didn't know about it, not to mention that there was a foreign VIP Chu Changjiang standing next to her.

So Hong Xing temporarily changed her words, but it had already aroused the doubts of Chu Changjiang and Chen Xiaopang.

"What full moon night? shouldn't it be the reason?" Chen Xiaopang asked directly.

Hongxing was speechless for a while, and Bai Yang hurriedly took over the conversation and said, "The Iron Bull was once bitten by something in the ancient tomb, but it has been so long, there should be no problem!"

"But when Hongxing mentions the night of the full moon, what does that mean?" Chen Xiaopang asked.

Bai Yang didn't know how to answer, just as Chen Dalin jumped down and asked, "The night of the full moon, what is the night of the full moon?"

Chen Xiaopang probably also realized that he shouldn't discuss these things at this time, so he shook his head and said, "A few of them said something inexplicable, so the old man shouldn't have heard it!"

Ding Lingling hurriedly spoke and said, "Yes, the old man came down just in time, I have a question I want to ask you!"

Chen Dalin nodded, his eyes were already looking at the various antique relics on the ground.

Suddenly seeing the bronze tripod, Chen Dalin couldn't help but show joy, and immediately squatted down to take a closer look.

"The old man seems to be particularly interested in bronzes?" Ding Lingling asked with a smile.

"Yes, everyone has their own hobbies, and I love bronzes the most!" Chen Dalin nodded again and again, revealing a look of love for it.

"As soon as I saw Xiao Chen, I went to inspect the pottery, I should have liked the pottery the most?" Chu Changjiang asked.

"The older he is, the more he likes it!" Ding Lingling hurriedly replied in place of Chen Xiaopang, "Because pottery has been around for a longer time than bronze and porcelain, so every time an antiquity is excavated, the first thing our Senior Brother Chen looks at must be pottery!"

Chen Xiaopang nodded and smiled, and said, "Let's go back to what happened before!

"Mushroom cloud, what mushroom cloud?" Chen Dalin stood up and asked.

"It is recorded in this book that before the destruction of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom, there was a big explosion, and the rising mushroom clouds can be seen here!" Ding Lingling replied briefly.

"Celestial Elephant Country? It's impossible, right? Although the Celestial Elephant Country did have a big explosion, this place is at least sixty or seventy kilometers away from the Celestial Elephant Country, and no matter how big the explosion is, it can't be seen in this place, right?"

After all, Chen Dalin is old and has no concept of "mushroom cloud".

But in fact, in the vast desert, although there are also stretches of sand mountains, the height of the sand mountains is very limited, so it is not surprising that the mushroom cloud rising from the explosion can be seen from 60 or 70 kilometers away.

But to explain the "mushroom cloud" clearly, it is a bit of a long story.

And a few people didn't have the heart to explain to Chen Dalin at all, and when they heard Chen Dalin mention that "the Celestial Elephant Kingdom did have a big explosion", several people couldn't help but gasp.

Ding Lingling blurted out: "I was just about to ask the old man, when you entered the Black Desert Celestial Elephant Country that time, did you see an explosion crater......? There was a big explosion in the Celestial Elephant Country, so you must have seen an explosion crater, right?"

"Yes, we saw it, right in the center of the Black Desert!" Chen Dalin nodded, his face showing confusion, "That explosion crater is very, very large, we were very strange at the time, because ...... According to our speculation, the time of the destruction of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom was at least more than a thousand years ago, and although there was already gunpowder at that time, it still feels impossible to create such a large explosion!"

"We also think it's unlikely!" Ding Lingling immediately said, "But since the old man has seen this explosion crater with his own eyes, then this big explosion is beyond doubt!"

"But the question is, what caused this explosion?" asked Chen Xiaopang with a frown.

No one was able to answer him.

However, the iron bull was guarding the entrance of the cellar, and he kept stretching his neck to listen to the conversation below, and at this time he couldn't help but whimsically say loudly: "A nuclear explosion is definitely impossible, do you think, could it be a big meteorite that fell on the Celestial Elephant Country?"

As soon as he said this, Bai Yang and Chen Xiaopang looked at each other with joy.

Chen Xiaopang smiled: "Yes, if the meteorite is big enough, the destructive power caused by it will be no less than that of a nuclear explosion, and it can also produce mushroom clouds!"

Hongxing glanced directly at Tie Niu and said, "You big stupid cow, there are times when you are not stupid!"

Tie Niu smiled very proudly.

But Ding Lingling and Chu Changjiang shook their heads at the same time.

Bai Yang and the other three immediately turned their eyes to the two of them, but Chu Changjiang still didn't speak, just waiting for Ding Lingling to explain.

Ding Lingling said: "If a meteorite falls, it will inevitably rub against the atmosphere to form a huge fireball! And this strange scene of a fireball falling from the sky can be said to be an earth-shattering event in that era! Even if the owner of the castle who wrote the note was in the castle at the time and did not see this strange scene with his own eyes, he would have heard many people's reports! However, in this notebook, only the mushroom cloud is mentioned, and the big fireball is not mentioned at all!"

Her analysis was so watertight that several people couldn't help but fall into deep thought again.

Only Chen Dalin looked at this, looked at that, and wanted to ask, but he didn't know where to start.

After all, it was Poplar who opened his mouth first and said, "We talked for a long time, but we still haven't talked about how this family died, they can't die from the impact of that big explosion, right?"

"I don't mention whether this town was affected by the big explosion, but at that time, even if there was an impact, these people didn't realize it!" Ding Lingling replied, "The notes do record in detail why they hid in the cellar, and why they hid in and never went out!"

"Why?" asked Poplar.

"For on the night of the eighth day after the great explosion, a great number of terrible men suddenly poured into the town! They smashed the doors and bit them when they saw them, and the owner of this castle had seen with his own eyes that some men who looked like mad beasts breaking into the castle, seizing one of his servants, and pressing him to death on the ground. ”

Ding Lingling stopped when she said this, and looked at Chu Changjiang with a pair of eyes.

Everyone else also followed and looked at Chu Changjiang.

Chu Changjiang understood what Ding Lingling meant, so he nodded and said, "Yes, this is very much like a desert savage!" Before, people thought that the desert savage was a desert man who could not survive anymore, and gradually degenerated into a beast that dug a sand hole and ate human flesh, but now it seems that the original origin of the desert savage was actually a big explosion that led to the destruction of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom!"

Chu Changjiang's words made Chen Xiaopang and Hongxing fall silent.

Bai Yang couldn't help but ask, "What Boss Chu means is that the big explosion is really ...... Nuclear explosions? These crazy people who bite people at sight are exposed to nuclear radiation, so they happened...... Some kind of mutation?"

The word "mutation" was learned by Poplar while watching a foreign video.

And the video depicts species mutation due to radiation leakage.

Chu Changjiang naturally understood what "mutation" meant, but he didn't answer Bai Yang's question, but set his eyes on Ding Lingling again.

Ding Lingling shook her head and said, "I don't know! The notes don't describe the appearance of those people in detail, but they just say that they are dressed in tatters and bite people when they see them, just like crazy beasts!"

(See Chapter 155 "The Scorpion Strikes")