Chapter 17: The Underground Palace (2)

Although the palace is half-embedded in the dodge, the convex part of the palace makes people feel unusually majestic. Even, Shi Cheng could feel an incomparably solemn and majestic feeling from the tall hall gate of the palace that was more than 20 meters high and only 30 meters wide, as well as the fourteen thick and towering stone pillars next to the palace gate.

The steps of the palace are also very particular. Shi Cheng stood a few hundred meters away from the palace, although Shi Cheng didn't know how many steps there were in front of the palace gate, but based on the length of the steps of more than 100 meters, Shi Cheng concluded that there were no less than 300 steps in front of the palace gate.

What made Shi Cheng feel that this palace was unusual was the stone statues of various animals standing on the carved railings on both sides of the more than 100-meter-long steps in front of the palace gate. It can be said that the stone statues on the guardrails on both sides of this staircase alone include all kinds of birds and beasts that Shi Cheng has seen, heard, and never seen.

Curious and confused, Shi Cheng walked step by step to the palace a few hundred meters away. Then, along the more than 100-meter-long steps, while walking up the steps, I carefully looked at the stone statues on the guardrails on both sides of the steps.

It is only up close to look at the stone statues on the parapets on both sides of these steps that you can see how vivid they are. It can be said that if it weren't for the milky white color of the stone of these stone statues, Shi Cheng would even think that these stone statues were some living creatures.

And what surprised Shi Cheng was not only the lifelike stone sculptures on the guardrails on both sides of the steps. As Shi Cheng climbed the stairs step by step, he was surprised to find that each step under his feet would make a different sound as his feet stepped on it. And as Shi Cheng stepped on more than twenty steps, he unexpectedly found that the twenty or so steps he had passed under his feet actually contained a certain rhythm. Unconsciously, indulge in these sounds. And involuntarily, step on a higher level at a faster speed. And as people stepped on more and more steps, the music from the steps that people couldn't help but indulge in made Shi Cheng feel an inexplicable sense of pride in his heart for no reason!

It's just a feeling of honesty.

In fact, what Shi Cheng didn't know was that these steps under his feet were not ordinary steps. The stone used for the steps is actually ordinary stone. However, it is these very ordinary stones, because a strange person has set up a formation in them, and it has become no longer ordinary and ordinary. This step connecting the palace gate has a very strange name - Test Pulse Base! Legend has it that unless you have the blood of the stone steps, you will make a pleasant sound of joy when you step on this stone step that looks like it is a little longer. Otherwise, if it were anyone, not only would this stone staircase not make a sound, but that person's heart would be attacked by those lifelike monsters on the guardrails on both sides of the stone steps.

And what Shi Cheng didn't know was that the reason why there was such a legend and such a stone step was there. The reason is only that the palace in front of him is located underground, but it is actually a mausoleum that only exists in some legend......

Shi Cheng walked up the steps that extended upwards step by step. And the pride that suddenly appeared in his heart became stronger and stronger.

"Kid! I guessed correctly! You're the one I'm waiting for......"

When Shi Cheng's feet stepped over the last step and stood in front of the palace gate, an old voice rang in Shi Cheng's ears.

"Who are you? Where are you? Hearing the old man's voice again, Shi Cheng couldn't help but look around him. However, in this huge cave, there was not even a single figure except Shi Cheng.

"What? How much time has passed, why did you forget about me, a bad old man? You kid has amnesia, but I think your head isn't bad, and you should still be able to remember some things about me! ”

With Shi Cheng's question, the old voice sounded in Shi Cheng's ears again. This time, Shi Cheng could be sure that he had indeed heard it. That old voice should have come from his own ears. However, now in Shi Cheng's ears, there was nothing but the air containing the aroma of earth.

"You don't have to look for it! Go on, follow the guidance of your heart, and you will see me. As if the old man who made the old voice could see what Shi Cheng was thinking, when Shi Cheng suspected that there was an invisible person beside him, the old voice suddenly said again in Shi Cheng's ear. And as the old voice gradually disappeared, the two closed doors of the palace in front of Shi Cheng suddenly opened slowly to both sides.

"What the hell?" Seeing that the two palace doors in front of him were unexpectedly windless, Shi Cheng couldn't help but say a secret sentence in his heart. No matter how bold Rao is Shi Cheng, the skin on his body can't help but tighten at this time, and there is a tingling sensation like a pinprick on the scalp and the surface of the skin on his upper body.

However, although Shi Cheng felt that the palace in front of him, as well as the old voice that always suddenly sounded in his ears and he couldn't see it every time, was a little weird, he still took his left foot towards the palace door that was wide open to him.

And just when Shi Cheng's left foot just stepped out, the old voice suddenly sounded in Shi Cheng's ears again: "Child, you are returning home to worship your ancestors, what are you afraid of?" ”

"Returning home to worship your ancestors?" Hearing the words of the old voice, Shi Cheng's left foot that had just stepped out couldn't help but retract it. Then, out loud, he asked, "Who the hell are you?" Are you really the old man I saw in my dreams? Why do you say that I am 'returning home to worship my ancestors'? Is this my home? ”

"Aside from me, I'm afraid there are not many people in this world who can enter your consciousness and talk to you. As to whether this is your home or not, you have stopped me, a bad old man. Hehe......"

"What do you mean?"

"Actually, it's not your home. This is nothing more than the resting place of your ancestors. Of course, maybe a hundred years from now, you may return here again to rest with your ancestors. As for now, your home, it should be outside......"

"Listen to you, you seem to know a lot!" Hearing the explanation of the old voice, Shi Cheng couldn't help but blurt out.

However, for Shi Cheng's words, the old man who Shi Cheng had never seen his true face from beginning to end did not deny it. Instead, as if he was chatting with his grandson who was ignorant of the world, he smiled at Shi Cheng and said, "Hehe! You're right, kid. How can a janitor not know about the affairs of the Lord's house? Haha......"