Chapter 0380: Deep in the Belly of the Mountain
Early the next morning, when the sky was just dawning, Ling Xiao climbed onto the rock wall on the west side, and only approached the round rock after fastening the safety rope. He reached out and pushed the round rock out, but the round rock didn't move. He changed direction and pushed from the side, and the result was the same.
"Supposed to move, right? If it's the same as the rocks at the top of the mountain, then what was the purpose of the people who designed it? Damn it! Ling Xiao angrily slammed his fist on the round rock. At that moment, he felt the round rock tremble.
Ling Xiao was stunned for a moment, this rock needed to be pushed in to have an effect.
This design is really counterintuitive, and who would have thought of pushing a rock into a mountain?
Ling Xiao used his internal force and continued to push the round rock into the mountain. It seems a little difficult at first, after all, a round rock with a diameter of one meter, its weight is at least more than a thousand catties. However, it soon became smooth, and Ling Xiao barely needed to use internal force to push it.
The round rock is embedded in the mountain, and a round tunnel is revealed in the rock wall.
"Am I going to push it further into the belly of the mountain and I'll get a passage into the belly of the mountain?" Ling Xiao, who was pushing the rock, couldn't help but think like this in his heart.
But just as he had such thoughts, the round rock stopped, refusing to move forward. Where it passed, it left a tunnel about a meter deep.
Ling Xiao climbed into the tunnel, his hands pushing the round rock with all his internal force. However, no matter how hard he tried, the round rock blocking the tunnel stood still in front of him.
He thought for a moment, and then climbed out of the tunnel and onto the top of the platform. He then quickly ran to the north side of the summit platform, lowered the safety rope, and slid over the round rock on the north side.
In exactly the same way, the round rock on the north side can be pushed into the rock wall, but only about a meter deep, and then it can no longer be pushed.
This phenomenon made Ling Xiao's judgment even more firm - the round rocks on the rock walls on all sides were a mechanism!
Pushing the round rock on the north side of the rock wall into the rock wall, Ling Xiao followed to the east rock wall and pushed the round rock on the east side of the rock wall into the rock wall, and then came to the south rock wall, and pushed the last round rock into the rock wall.
Just as the round boulder on the south side of the rock wall was pushed into place, Ling Xiao suddenly felt the entire Pirate Mountain tremble, and then there was a rumbling sound. Before he could figure out what was happening, the round boulder embedded in the rock wall suddenly rolled down like a bowling ball, revealing a tunnel that sloped down the rock wall.
A column of water suddenly erupted from the tunnel, almost knocking Ling Xiao hanging at the mouth of the tunnel.
A column of water with a diameter of about one meter rushes down the mountain, and the scene is spectacular.
Ling Xiao climbed to the top platform and walked from the south side to the north side, and he soon saw the column of water sprayed from the rock wall on the north side. He went around to the west side again, and there was a column of water rushing down the hill on the west side. He also saw Jenny, who was waving at him under the rock wall on the west side. After the end, he came to the east side of the rock wall, and there was also a column of water spraying down the mountain on the east side of the rock wall.
With four rock walls and four water columns, the entire island mountain is like a giant fountain. Fortunately, this is in the middle of a deserted primeval forest, and if it were somewhere else, I don't know how many people would have attracted such a spectacle.
Ling Xiao came to the center of the summit platform, where the huge round rock was slowly sinking. Although he had expected it in his heart, he was still surprised and shocked when he saw it with his own eyes - hundreds of years ago, in the Middle Ages, who could have designed such a huge and exquisite mechanism?
Not to mention in the Middle Ages, when there were no construction machinery, even now, who has the ability to transform a mountain into a mechanism?
This is incredible from any point of view, a project that is almost impossible to complete by manpower!
The huge round rock slowly sank, and a stone staircase carved out of the tunnel appeared vertically downward. The stone staircase rotates downward, and its height, width, and slope allow people to walk down safely.
The huge rock is still sinking, and I don't know when the road will be the bottom, Ling Xiao can't wait anymore. He ran to the rock wall on the west side, he had solved the mystery that the Zheng He family had not solved for hundreds of years, and he wanted to witness this great moment with Janie.
"Ling, how can there be a column of water spewing out from inside the rock wall? What happened? Jenny had a lot of questions in her heart, and she couldn't wait to know the answers from Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao squatted in front of her, "Come on my back, I'll take you up." β
Janie was accustomed to the feeling of being carried on his back and climbed on his back, so she obediently leaned on his back, but her mouth was still asking, "Ling, you haven't answered my question yet?" As she spoke, her legs tightly clamped Ling Xiao's waist, and her hands also wrapped around Ling Xiao's neck, suddenly forming an intimate posture.
"I've found it!" After Ling Xiao fastened his seat belt, he pulled his legs and walked under the rock wall.
"What did you find?"
"I don't know the way, but I'll know it soon, let's go and see it together." Ling Xiao grabbed the safety rope and climbed up.
In fact, the person who should witness the miracle here the most is Ma Longyi, but there is no signal here, so he can't be contacted at all.
Jenny also saw the sinking giant rocks, as well as the stone staircase inside the tunnel. She was speechless in astonishment.
When Ling Xiao left just now, the giant rock had only sunk a few meters or so, and when he brought Jenny up and returned here, it had already sunk to a depth of several tens of meters.
The huge rock was sinking, but the water column on the four stone walls gradually lost its strength, and the flow of the water gradually decreased, and finally stopped flowing. After the four water columns were cut off, the giant rock also stopped sinking and stopped at a depth of about 100 meters.
The sun shining overhead, Ling Xiao and Jenny could see the rock that had stopped at a depth of 100 meters. However, Ling Xiao soon discovered that there was light absorption at the bottom of the tunnel. This phenomenon indicates that the perimeter of the giant rock is empty.
There is space, what will be in the space?
"I want to go down and see, do you want to go down? If you don't want to, you just stay here and wait for me. Ling Xiao said. Diving deep into the mysterious space in the belly of the mountain, he himself could not be sure if there was a dangerous situation, so he let Jenny choose for herself.
"I'll go down with you." Jenny was quick to make her choice, "I'll be careful. β
Ling Xiao nodded, and cautiously walked into the stone staircase in the tunnel. Jenny followed Ling Xiao onto the stone stairs. The two of them walked down the stone staircase that spiraled down to the bottom of the tunnel.
The sound of tap-to-tap footsteps echoed through the near-closed tunnel, and it didn't feel like two people walking, but a dozen walking. It's a weird feeling.
Humans are afraid of the unknown, and Ling Xiao and Jenny are no exception, on the one hand, he and she are eager to know what is under the tunnel, and on the other hand, they are afraid of it, so that both of them seem nervous.
Finally came to the bottom of the tunnel, Ling Xiao first stepped on the round boulder with his foot, and only came down from the stone steps after making sure that there was no problem. Janie followed Ling Xiao to the round boulder, staring at the scene on the other side in amazement.
On the opposite side is a vaulted portal, like the gates of a palace from the Persian era, very beautiful. Behind the arch, a passage extends deep into the belly of the mountain. The light did not shine into the depths of the passage, and it was pitch black inside.
Ling Xiao turned on the flashlight and shone into the depths of the arch.
The arch passage is not long, only twenty or thirty meters, and at the end is a stone gate. The stone door was closed, blocking the light of the flashlight, and also blocking Ling Xiao and Jenny's vision, unable to see what was behind it.
Ling Xiao cautiously stepped into the archway, stepping on the ancient stone slabs laid on the ground and walking towards the end of the passage. Janie followed.
The stone gate is very thick and huge, and the weight of the visual inspection is not less than twenty tons, which cannot be pushed by manpower.
There were some strange words and symbols carved on the stone door, and Ling Xiao looked at it for a while, but he couldn't read a word because it was too unpopular.
"This is the old Malagasy text!" Jenny said suddenly, looking very excited.
Ling Xiao's heart moved, and he blurted out, "Do you know?" What is written on it? β
"Hannah's Tomb!" Jenny said, then excitedly saying, "Ling, we seem to have found the grave of the legendary pirate Hannah!" β
Ling Xiao was stunned on the spot, how could this be possible?
Before, when Jenny talked about the legend of Hannah, Ling Xiao only knew that the heyday of the pirate group led by Hannah was the period when Zheng He went to the West, but he often didn't expect that the miracle that Zheng He experienced was actually related to a female pirate!
In Ling Xiao's imagination, Zheng He most likely met some peerless master, or some mysterious tribal people, or even magical supernatural energy, but he never imagined that he was a female pirate. Not to mention that he was so surprised that he couldn't believe this kind of thing, even Ma Longyi, who had studied it all his life, probably wouldn't believe it.
But the facts are right in front of you, and no matter how much you question it, it's there, and it doesn't increase or decrease.
"What else is written besides this?" Ling Xiao asked again.
"I'm still making it." Jenny stared intently at the words on the stone door, and only said in a half-loud voice: "It's strange, it also says 'Immortal', what does this mean?" β
"Immortals?" The first time Ling Xiao heard it, it was very rare.
"Yes, there are these words written on it, and I think it should be pronounced like thisβthe resting place of Hannah the Immortal." Jenny translated all the words on the stone door. She also corrected the previous initial translation of "Hannah's Tomb".
Ling Xiao's heart repeated this sentence, and he had a feeling that he had touched something, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was very vague and nothing.
"Ling, this stone door has no lock, and even if there is a lock, we don't have a key, I'm afraid we will have to return in vain. Perhaps, we should prepare some explosives to blast it. Jenny said.
Ling Xiao was silent for a moment and said, "As far as the miraculous mechanism outside, the person who designed this place, does he need to use something as low-level as a lock?" I think this hole looks like a mechanism that opens the stone door, don't you think? β
Jenny looked at it and shook her head, "I don't think so, this hole can fit at most one finger into it, where does it look like a mechanism?" As she spoke, as if to prove that her own statement was correct, she also took out a pen and inserted it into the air of the stone gate, went in and out several times before pulling it out, and said to Ling Xiao with a smile: "See, it's not a mechanism at all." β
Looking at her movements, her expression, Ling Xiao suddenly remembered the kind of thing he had done to her.
Jenny noticed that Ling Xiao was looking at her with a strange look, and she suddenly realized how embarrassing the demonstration had just been, and her face immediately turned red. However, no matter how shy a black girl is, it is not obvious under the mask of skin color.
Ling Xiao leaned in, and now it was time for him to demonstrate.