Chapter 174: The Ancient Kingdom of the Spirit Kingdom I

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Going deep into the forest, the light was very dim, and soon there were terrible roots all around, and the roots were full of vines, and the vines were covered with green moss, and the dampness was pressing, and the way of winding was overwhelming, and most of the places had to crawl down to barely get through, making people feel like they were entering a huge cave full of trees.

The fat man cut the vines blocking the road in front of him, because almost all the trees have a large number of roots and vines connected to each other, so everyone hardly needs to drip water, and it is very stable to walk on the thigh-thick vines in the air.

However, what made them strange was that in such a dense woods, it was surprisingly quiet, except for the sound of their marching, no other movement could be heard, and the silence was a little uncomfortable.

"The territory of the Spirit Dragon Kingdom is really evil," Gu Lajie said as he walked, "What the hell doesn't even have a bird call?" ”

"Why, the fuck doesn't seem to have anything here?" Yang Xuan said, "This ghost place is really abnormal, and it gives me the illusion that we may be the only creatures in this rainforest besides these trees." ”

"Maybe there are too many snakes here, and the birds have eaten them all." Li Monan said.

"Impossible, what are these snakes eating now?" Lin Xin shook his head and said

Reminds me of that snake. A few people were nervous again, but all the way over, there was no trace of any snakes. This took them by surprise.

The nerves tensed on, and soon we saw the remains of some ancient buildings in front of us, wrapped in trees and jutting out of the water, because they were so old, that these remnants had become stones of different shapes, and a large number of vines and moss had taken root in the cracks of these buildings, and then wrapped around the body. It's hard to tell in the rainforest, and you can't find it until you're in front of you.

These buildings must have been part of the top of the building at the time, so they could still protrude above the water. I don't know what the shape of the whole thing is because I can't see the underwater part, but if you look at the top, it's all like some simple towers. There are a lot of them. The heights are staggered. They come in a variety of sizes and look like the kind of Tallinn where monks are buried.

Along the way, I basically didn't see the remains of the ancient country of Linglong, and now I finally saw it, but I was relieved, before I also had a conjecture that everyone should not go wrong, after all, there is no sign at the mouth of the canyon that says "Linglong Country City is 2 kilometers inside, and the mobile signal has been covered." "After a while, I went in and found that there was nothing in it, and the joke was too big.

There was no time to stop and look at the ruins, and they quickly went deeper. However, although subjectively I don't want to study it, the route forward is winding. There is always a time to go around these ruins, Lin Xiaofan found that although these ruins have gone through thousands of years, they are extremely solid and very solid, and what is strange is that all such "towers" have many square holes, which were obviously polished when they were built.

Fang Kong said that it is not big, it is not small, and it is not possible for people to pass it, but things that are smaller than people are not a problem.

Li Monan, the fat man and the others also looked strange, and when they passed by, they subconsciously used the miner's lamp to look inside, but they couldn't see anything, only heard the sound of water below. I don't know where it leads.

The black devil didn't have time to pay attention to this, so he urged him to leave quickly, and the fat man knew that he was in a hurry, so he had to take a hasty look at it and followed.

The absolute area of this valley is not large, the more you go inside, the silt under the water is significantly reduced, and the remains of various monuments under the water are exposed, very clear, forming a very strange but spectacular scene, the depth of the water is only about two or three meters, countless remnants and the flourishing tree roots under the water are mixed together, so that everyone feels that there is only a thin layer of water, as if they are separated from each other.

It was only at this time that Lin Xiaofan had the feeling of entering an ancient city, looking at these remnants, he could vaguely imagine what it was like to be prosperous here, but time has passed, even if it is a fairy city, it has finally returned to dust, and the earth has returned to the earth.

Suddenly, the speed of the water under my feet changed, and there seemed to be a steep downward slope ahead. They also unconsciously be careful, there are too many trees here, and slipping and stepping on the air is a serious injury.

After walking a few steps around a big tree, the rainstorm in front of him exclaimed, with his exclamation, everyone saw a huge human snake suddenly appeared in the dense forest in front of the left, saying that it was a human snake, because, below her is a snake body, the snake body looks very thin, and the head above is larger than the snake body, four times larger than the giant, this statue, less than ten meters away from them, enough to be the size of a truck head, this face can not tell whether it is a man or a woman, the face is green, big eyes and high nose, it seems to be a Western variety, At this time, it was encased in moss and vines, a huge stone sculpture.

Yang Xuan turned on the miner's lamp and shone it over, most of the body of the stone snake sank into the swamp, only the head remained, and the dense forest was integrated, and the snake body in the water presented a very strange squatting posture, as if it was about to suddenly fly up, as if the snake saw the enemy's momentum before attacking. You can also see some strangely shaped black shadows under the water below the stone carvings, and I don't know what has sunk.

Everyone looked at each other, wondering what this stone elephant represented? Could it be a kind of strict warning?

Lin Xiaofan subconsciously looked at the sea of trees behind the statue, and said in his heart that there should be some huge danger waiting for them in the area behind the stone carving. After thinking about it, everyone had come to the bottom of the statue, the water was getting faster and faster, and everyone saw that the swamp under the roots of the tree was flowing chaotically, and they didn't know what the situation was below, and the black devil told everyone to be careful, saying that there might be some gaps in the ruins under the silt leading to the underground. It's like going into a well.

The fat man Gulajie didn't listen at all, all his attention was drawn to the stone carving on one side, and the miner's lamp slid around on it.

Under the focal length light, Lin Xiaofan saw more details. The stone carvings appear to have been carved from a single boulder, and in many places have been mutilated and cracked because of the large amount of moss. It makes it look even more weird and ugly, and when you look at it so closely, you can't feel what the whole carving is.

After a few glances, the fat man shone the light underwater, and the snake body of the stone statue was almost wrapped in the middle of two huge dipterocarp trees, and the part of the swamp was completely entangled in the roots, and it could still be seen. At the depths of the water, there are some strange shadows that are wrapped around at the same time, and the shape is very irregular. Cowering inside the roots of the tree. I don't know if it's part of the stone carving.

The fat man looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see what it was, and Lin Xiaofan also found it strange why the roots of the trees around him could be illuminated so clearly by the miner's lamp. No matter how you look at it, it's a shadow. After that, everyone suddenly realized that it was not a black shadow, but an empty hole.

And looking at the direction of the crops attached to the roots of the tree, it seems that the water here is flowing down this black hole. Sure enough, as the Black Demon Heaven said, there was a gap under this statue that led to the underground.

originally thought that they could see something strange, but now they couldn't help but be disappointed, so the Black Demon Heaven continued to urge, and Lin Xiaofan and the four of them could only continue to set off.

Fat people are not very willing. While paddling the miner's lamp to shine back, he said to himself: "Where does this water go?" Could it be that this Linglong Ancient City is empty underneath? ”

Lin Xiaofan said no. This may have been part of the previous urban sewerage project, and some underground water canal shafts were still in use.

The fat man said, "Then where does this sewer lead to?" It's a low-lying area, and there's no place to go any lower. ”

Yang Xuan thought for a while, "In general, the drainage system of a city has a large river nearby, which finally rushes into the sea. Like this Linglong Ancient City, there are no large above-ground lakes or rivers nearby, but there will definitely be dark rivers passing around, so according to reason, this drainage system should lead to the nearby dark rivers, however, in fact, the rainfall in the Western Regions is very small, and the water here is particularly precious, so it is impossible to need such a luxurious system of "drainage". ”

Therefore, Yang Xuan feels that the drainage system here is either brought into the dark river below, or there are wells or pools of water stored everywhere in the underground of the ancient city, and these wells are poured into the deep wells and stored, and these wells may be connected to the underground wells like the karez in Turpan, and when one well is full, it automatically sends water to another well until all the wells are full of water.

The hollow under this statue may be the mouth of the well at that time, which is also quite likely. The stone tower we saw just now, the fat man said that there was a sound of water below, which may also be the sound of the underground water diversion tunnel.

"This fucking is digging deep holes and accumulating grain, it seems that the idea of ** also comes from the ancients, our dragon spirit king is really not ambiguous." The fat man said.

Torrential rain said: "But there is so little rain here, and it only takes a few years for a heavy rain, and this kind of big project may take hundreds of years, will it work?" ”

"If you look at it in a short period of time, it may outweigh the losses, but the Dragon Spirit Country, if there is water, you can be called the king, Loulan is known as the great power of the Western Regions, and there are only a few thousand soldiers, the terrain here is strange, if there is a large amount of water, even if the country is not large, you can stick to it, you look at the situation here, this oasis must be formed because of this, the tree can fix the water, and the water can raise the tree, the King of Linglong at that time was obviously a far-sighted person." Li Monan said

"Originally, the geographical location of the ancient city of Longling Kingdom was extremely low-lying, and such a setting could even introduce limited natural groundwater, but if I was right, then we have been here for a few days, and for such a long time, these wells are still draining, which means that those wells are not full yet, how deep are the wells and thoroughfares underneath?" Yang Xuan followed

The black devil thought for a while, nodded and said: "It makes sense, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, if there is a war and someone sneaks into the city to throw poison for the epidemic, isn't it that the whole city is unlucky?" ”

Lin Xiaofan said: "There will definitely not be many wellheads, I think there may be wellheads in the ancient kingdom of Longling and the homes of Quanchen, and the people may use the kind of public wellheads they just saw, these places must be heavily guarded, everyone has also seen ancient costume films, poisoning this kind of thing seems easy, but it is still difficult to do, after all, the wellhead is deep, and the poison is diluted." I'm afraid even E. coli can't be poisoned. ”

Speaking of this, the fat man was stunned for a moment, he didn't know what he thought, he thought about it and suddenly said, "I'm damn." In this way, these wellheads must be open, so we can go to the palace of the Linglong Kingdom from the wellhead. ”

Thunder Trail is true, but we're not fish, and the hoistways below are bound to criss-cross like a maze, even if you have the best diving equipment. You don't necessarily make it out alive either. Perhaps, the wellhead below is only the thickness of the bowl mouth, which is more troublesome. ”

The fat man scolded: "You are sarcastic about me again, right? Fat man, I'm getting in the way of you. ”

Lei Ming said, "Damn." I'm sarcastic about you. I haven't lost enough weight to the size of the bowl myself, so I don't have the heart to sarcastically mock you. ”

"I don't think so." The little fat man said: "We used to learn the basic course when we were supporting the side, digging the ridge and diversion canal, and the width should also be determined according to the amount of water. If it's such heavy rain. Is the thick thoroughfare of the bowl sufficient? Little Leizi, can't you count these? ”

Lei Ming said: "When I was studying architecture, I talked about this problem, but now I need to use it temporarily, and it is completely useless, and I can't think of anything in my mind now, so I still have to think about it carefully when I rest." ”

The black devil said: "Come on, don't talk all the time, there is a kung fu for bickering." You've got that to think about, so hurry up. Calculate that even if the subway is so wide, we can't get down, and the most important thing for us now is to rush to the mad leopard as much as possible. ”

As soon as everyone thought about it, they immediately nodded, and they gathered their minds and didn't think about it, at this moment, they only heard the sound of broken branches in the forest behind them, and at the same time, there seemed to be a continuous sound of canopy shaking and leaves shaking, and I don't know what moved in the dense bushes.

Everyone came all the way, and there was hardly any sound in the forest, and all of them were startled by this kind of movement, and they all stopped, and turned their heads to look back.

The canopy of the trees was dense, and nothing could be seen clearly except for the huge stone sculpture of a human-faced snake, and the sound slowly stopped. The woods soon regained that suffocating silence.

Everyone looked at each other, and this kind of movement was definitely not something that could be emitted by a small person. It seems that there is not nothing in this forest.

Yang Xuan picked it up and motioned for us to prepare our weapons, stop talking, and get out of here quickly. Everyone nodded, didn't dare to slack off any longer, gathered their spirits and began to observe the movements around them, and then accelerated their pace.

After walking two steps, suddenly the fat man sighed and said, "Wait! ”

Yang Xuan asked him carefully, "What are you doing, you were shocked and exploded"

Gu Lajie turned his head, pointed to the stone statue of the human-faced bird behind him, and asked everyone, "Where was its face just now?" ”

Everyone looked at the stone carving, and they found that the face of the stone carving had turned around at some point, and the expressionless moss-covered face was facing us. Because it is half obscured by trees, it looks like an unknown creature hiding behind a tree and peeping. My scalp went numb, my heart beat sharply, and I became nervous.

Wild Sand swallowed and said, "I didn't pay attention...... But it's certainly not that side. ”

The fat man Gulajie said: "Damn, there is a ghost, so did it turn around on its own?" Or have we touched some mechanism? ”

Li Monan: "It's impossible, when I approached just now, I could see it clearly, it was obviously a stone, and it was a whole piece, it was unlikely that there was a trap." ”

The Black Demon Sky stared at the stone sculpture and said, "I didn't look carefully just now, maybe this statue is two-sided." ”

"Two-sided your head, I looked back several times when I left just now, and there is absolutely no such face on the back of the stone statue." The fat man said: "Moreover, there is something wrong with this face."

Indeed, compared to the front, the face of this stone statue feels very strange, and it is also expressionless, but the expression on that face is full of gloom and resentment. It's shocking to watch.

"Damn, it must have turned around on its own, is this thing alive?" Yang Xuan said.

"We've run into a stone spirit." Storm Drain

Lei Ming said: "We are not walking in a straight line, maybe it is a matter of angle, don't scare yourself." ”

The fat man scolded: "Bullshit angle, there must be something wrong with this, you are deceiving yourself by thinking about it like this." ”

Lei Ming was a little embarrassed, and the fat man said, "Do you want to go back and have a look?" ”

Yang Xuan shook his head, suddenly took out the gun, loaded it, aimed at the giant face, and wanted to shoot, we were startled by this move, almost had time to react, Yang Xuan immediately lifted the gun, and a bullet whistled by, hitting the dipterocarp wood next to the stone statue, and the whole tree was shocked, and everyone immediately looked at the stone statue, and said that this is too horizontal, if it is really a living, you don't directly provoke the thing.

The fat man was ready for battle, and his hands touched his waist. A few people looked at the stone sculpture, ready for any change in it.

However, looking at the statue, there was no reaction at all, the strange face was still cold and expressionless, and there was no change in the slightest, it seemed to be just an ordinary stone statue. After waiting for half a sound, Yang Xuan unloaded the gun and said to everyone: "Look, it's okay, it's stone, maybe it's really wrong, the road here is full of twists and turns, let's go quickly, don't rub it off." ”

Lin Xiaofan also breathed a sigh of relief, saying that she was really scaring herself, and it really made her nervous in this kind of place. Even the ability to judge correctly is gone.

Crazy Sand frowned, still not convinced: "When Lao Tzu was on the side, he worked on a lathe, and his eyes were very poisonous, how could this be wrong." ”

"A lathe is a lathe, this is a forest, the reference is complicated, it's not surprising to be wrong." Yang Xuan said

The black devil urged him to go quickly, but the fat man refused to do so, asked for Yang Xuan's gun, put down his equipment, and said to everyone: "Don't move, I'll go and see, just two minutes." As he spoke, he walked in the direction of the statue.

Lin Xiaofan knew Gu Lajie's temper, and he had no choice but to let him go. Everyone sat down to rest, and the black devil cursed for trouble.

Just watched Gu Lajie put the gun on his back, walked back cautiously, and halfway there, he suddenly stopped, took a step back, and didn't know what he saw.

The Black Devil was impatient and shouted and asked him, "What the hell are you doing?" Hurry up! ”

Before he could finish speaking, the fat man suddenly turned around. Turning around and running wildly, he shouted at us, "It's alive!" Come on! At the same time, I saw that the "face" of the human-faced snake in the distance had changed, its eyes were hanging, and the corners of its mouth were incredibly raised, from that expressionless face to an extremely hideous smile.

Lin Xiaofan's scalp exploded, and he said in his heart that he had encountered a ghost, is this thing really alive?

The fat man had already rushed in front of them, and he didn't stop, grabbed Lin Xiaofan and ran, shouting: "What a daze!" ”

Lin Xiaofan took the fat man out a few steps, but he still didn't react at this time, and when he looked back, he saw an even more bizarre scene, the face of the stone carving was shattered, and his facial features were shifted, as if something was wrapped in the stone, and he wanted to rush out of it.

"****!" Lin Xiaofan scolded loudly, and said that his hunch was really right, and immediately ran wildly.

Everyone was in a large area of ruins, below were rocks and vines, it was really difficult to accelerate, so we had to follow the ruins of the mountain, where it was convenient to run, fell several times, my knees were broken, until I was exhausted, only to look back, only to find that I had not run far, but the stone sculpture was still in place, and did not chase over, this distance can no longer be seen.

When we ran wildly, the body had already pulled us out of the distance, several people in the Black Devil Sky ran farther than Lin Xiaofan and them, and they were still running forward, Yang Xuan and Li Monan and I grabbed Lin Xiaofan alone, the fat man was afraid of any accidents, and he also followed Lin Xiaofan's surroundings, there was a hole in front of him, the Black Devil Sky They stopped and hid there, Lin Xiaofan They arrived, and they also hid in, and then looked at the stone carving in the distance and found that the stone sculpture did not chase after them, they were quite surprised, we gasped, and looked at it for a while, The stone carvings in the distance did not move......

Only then did everyone relax, and the fat man gasped like a bellows, and said with difficulty: "What's the matter?" Black boss, it doesn't move, could this be a mechanism? ”

"We didn't touch that thing at all, how could it be a mechanism? And the agency can't do that kind of process. The Black Demon Heaven shook his head

This is absolutely impossible to be a mechanism, the overall stone carving, plus it is sandwiched between two giant trees, if it wants to turn its head, then there will be a huge movement, and the two trees may even be twisted, so even if there is a mechanism, it cannot turn, there is no doubt about this. But, no matter what you think, it's clear that it's turned around, and that's just weird. (To be continued...... )