Chapter 291: The Steps of the Ancestors (I)

"Well, since old Tchaikov has shown us the way, let's just follow his pace." Tchaikov said that it is impossible to remember here forever.

"Dick is right up front, and I can already smell him." Pandey is ready to make a big move.

After walking through a long cave, I finally saw a spacious place, but this place was not the broad road I thought.

"How to get there?" The mayor stood in front of the platform, looking at the bottomless abyss and the "passage" in front of him, and his heart went up and down.

Chen Badai turned his headlamp to the brightest and tried to see how the surrounding environment was, but at the end of the pillar of light, he couldn't see anything, and it seemed that there was an endless abyss in front of him, and there was only one way to go.

Dick walked to a chain bridge in front of the platform, as a chain bridge, it looked a little simple, just two iron chains about 2 finger thick on the left and right as handrails, and an iron lock about 3 fingers thick under his feet, this is the bridge deck, people like walking a tightrope, stepping on the iron rope below, staggering and grasping two handrails.

This was the only way in front of him, and the iron rope didn't know how long it had been here, and no one knew how much weight it could carry, but Dick didn't seem to care, and walked up first.

"Dick." Mr. Min wanted to remind him to be careful.

"If the royal family knew that future generations would follow in his footsteps, they would not have done a bad job. If not, I'm dying anyway. Dick said, staggering on the first foot, then the second, and in the headlamp, the other end of the iron cable was not visible, only three iron ropes shook violently.

Dick's figure disappeared into the darkness, and Mr. Min saw the shaking iron rope and asked Dick several times in the headphones, but Dick did not answer.

Ten minutes passed, 15 minutes passed, 20 minutes passed, and everyone saw that the shaking iron rope slowly calmed down, but Dick still did not respond.

"Gentlemen, are you ready to visit the great works of my ancestors!" Dick's voice finally came out of the headphones.

Mr. Min's heart relaxed, but it was dark in front of him, where was there any great project?

As Dick walked down the chain to the middle, his headlamp shone on something, and as he went deeper, Dick began to understand who had left it behind.

Dick stood on the platform at the end of the iron cable, this section of the iron cable used thick rivets, riveted into the deep solid stone, and this huge platform was actually just a corner of a huge stone pillar, next to the stone pillar, in a brazier used by miners hundreds of years ago, the remaining oil had not been used up, Dick struck a match, lit the brazier that had been extinguished for hundreds of years.

Miraculously, when the first brazier was lit, as if there was a switch, the rest of the braziers were lit one after another, and in the darkness, the sparks of the stars lit up one after another, finally illuminating the huge underground palace.

Dick stood in front of this artificial underground ruin, and couldn't help but sigh: "You can't praise the greatness of your ancestors with all the beautiful words!" ”

"Dick, I always thought you looked down on them." Chen Badai muttered, Dick is really fast enough, except for complaining about the curse of the family, it seems that he has nothing good to say about being a descendant of the Loulan royal family.

It was a huge underground palace, although all the braziers had been lit, but the braziers in the distance had been strung into a line, extending to the places where Dick could not see, as far as the eye could see, huge stone pillars, jagged in the abyss, these naturally formed stone pillars seemed to grow out of the abyss, some were tall and not topless, some were low and could only be faintly seen, and there were naturally formed stone bridges between the stone pillars in some places, but most of them were not related, but it didn't matter, At the time of the establishment of this place, the Loulan people had already connected these countless stone pillars with iron cables, and after the old Zacher came here hundreds of years ago, they repaired the place, adding fuel to the brazier and reinforcing the iron cables.

"This is a miracle that will go down in history!" Mr. Min looked at the incredible scene in front of him and sighed.

Chen Badai, Mr. Min and the mayor of the town, through the shaking iron cable, walked to the platform where Dick was, here you can see the appearance of the underground palace even more, from this platform, the iron cable links the countless stone pillars, the mayor of the town saw the iron cable like a labyrinth, and his heart was a little frightened - how long will it take to find the right way here?

"Follow me." Dick walked to the edge of the platform, which was carved out of the waist of the huge stone pillar, and was carved out of a semi-arc around the stone pillar, and under the half-arc platform there were two steps, one to the north and the other to the south, but Dick did not hesitate to go to the south step.

"Are you sure?" Mayor Mare asked in a skeptical tone.

"I heard the call of my ancestors, and I can't be wrong," Dick shrugged, "to live or to die, you have to choose." ”

The mayor of the town was still hesitating, he just wanted to choose wealth, but Mr. Min and Chen Badai had already followed, and he had no choice but to follow.

"May the Holy Light shine on my path!" Those who are uneasy must always find some spiritual sustenance for themselves, and although the mayor is not a devout believer, it should be too late to pray at this time.

With the light of the brazier, it is not very difficult to find the way, but it is not easy to move on this shaking iron cable, the feet are shaking, no matter how hard you try to balance your body, it seems that you are going to fall, you can only use your hands to grasp the iron ropes on both sides as hard as possible, so that you can barely maintain your balance and move forward. It was impossible to shake all the way down like this, and it was impossible to move forward quickly, and after passing through two platforms, Dick and Mr. Min already felt that their hands and feet were weak, and they couldn't lift their heads, and had to stop and rest.

The mayor gasped and looked at the endless iron ropes ahead, feeling that it was simply impossible to finish the walk, and there must be a shortcut to take.

"Dick, are you sure you must be right?" The mayor looked left and right, and saw that there were braziers everywhere, and it was almost impossible to distinguish a path from the dotted braziers.

"Of course. The red dragon descended from the sky, crossed the rays of the sun, and at night carried the direction of the moon, accompanied by a meteor shower, whistling over the southern expanse. No, not here, the red dragon waved its wings and rushed into the dark sky, as if something was pointing there and saying, you should stay there, go, go, plunge into the heart of the earth, and wait for my call......" Dick recited a legend expertly.

"So what? Does it matter? "Mayor has no idea what the legend has to do with this place.

"Of course it matters, you take a closer look at these braziers. Looking up from here, it was Ursa Major, and if I'm not mistaken, the red dragon flew from the constellation Orion in the south, spread its wings as it crossed the ecliptic, and then plunged headlong into the designated place......" Dick glanced at the mayor with contempt.

The mayor looked up at the braziers in the sky, which were not distributed in a linear pattern, but were dense in some places and sparse in others, but it was difficult to distinguish the constellations in the midst of it.

Chen Badai was not too interested in these constellations and legends, and his intuition told him that it was not wrong to listen to Dick, but at this time, Chen Badai had a strong interest in the brazier, and took a closer look at how these braziers were lit in series.

The fuel contained in the bowl-shaped brazier with a diameter of more than one meter and a depth of one meter is a mixture of paraffin wax and fuel oil, hundreds of years have passed, the fuel oil slowly volatilizes, the proportion of paraffin wax has increased, and now there is only about half a basin of slimy paraffin mixture, and the brazier is a hole where the oil core is placed, just around a week, and the oil core is inserted in it. Chen Badai counted it, and it was exactly 13! 13 is an unlucky number in the West, and Chen Badai didn't understand why there were 13 oil cores.

The thick core also surrounds a fuse about the thickness of a little finger, at which point the fuse is already only ashes, and when a core is lit, the fuse is also lit, and the fuse passes the flame down until all the braziers are ignited.

Before Nobel invented explosives, he mainly used refined black powder as explosives......

Chen Badai observed some other braziers in the vicinity, and found that these braziers were large and small, the one in front of him was only medium, and there was a larger one not far away, which seemed to be three meters in diameter! And on the other side, there is a brazier with a diameter of about half a meter, and the flames on it seem to be half-dead, as long as you blow a breath, it is possible to extinguish, but all the oil cores on the brazier are 13!

"Strange, isn't 13 an unlucky number?" Chen Badai was puzzled.

"In the legend of Loulan, 13 means eternal life...... "Mr. Min thinks this is easy to explain.

Chen Badai muttered: "We Dongfang don't believe this, 13, just to be born!" If it's 14, you're going to die......"