"Pandey! Are you going to scavenge every copper plate I strung on my ribs? Tchaikov scolded half-jokingly.

"If I could, I would!" Pandey replied, and suddenly everyone heard a murmur in the headphones.

"Interference?" Pandey asked suspiciously.

"I think we're not far from that Dick, Pandey, dispel the idea of the Crystal House first, let's catch Dick first!"

The murmur was reflected in the wall of the cave by Dick's communication into their headphones, and although it didn't sound real, Tchaikov's intuition told him that Dick was indeed in the cave, and that it wasn't far away.

Everyone picked up speed and passed through several large caverns to the branch.

"Left? Right? Pandey asked, looking at the two holes that were almost the same size.

Tchaikov couldn't make up his mind, this is a 50% probability, if he guesses wrong, he may not be able to catch Dick in his life.

"Got a coin?" Seeing that Tchaikov had not made a decision for a long time, Pandey asked, since people can't decide, let luck decide.

"Right!" Wang Xingguo said, taking the lead and walking to the hole on the right.

"Why?" Tchaikov asked.

"A gut feeling." Wang Xingguo said with a smile.

"My dad said that if things don't start well, congratulations, it will go more and more smoothly in the future!" Pan Dey muttered to himself, following behind Wang Xingguo and Xia Ruobing.

"But my dad said that if things don't start well, then be prepared to fail!" Tchaikov was a little speechless, but everyone was to the right, and he had to follow.

"Tchaikov, I think your dad is right!" A few hundred meters into the passage, Pandey saw an incredible sight.

"Before they find out, there's still time for us to turn back." Tchaikov looked at the dense devouring insects in front of him and felt his scalp tingle.

But the devourers did not move, they lay on the cave wall layer upon layer, and some of them hung upside down on the roof of the cave in strings, like vines hanging from the roof of the cave, and there were some devourers on the ground, but they were far from the point of spreading all over the ground.

"They're hibernating." Wang Xingguo took a few steps closer, and gently broke off an insect from the wall, the insect eater seemed to be intoxicated, motionless, with its claws wrapped around its chest, Wang Xingguo carefully put it into the test vessel and covered the lid.

"Did you burn them all?" Pandey raised the flamethrower in his hand.

"No, just walk over there. Underground, they have very little food and can only use dormancy to conserve energy as much as possible. ”

"But how do you explain their frantic attacks on the ground?" Pandey asked, thinking that a dead eater is a good eater.

"They definitely act through their sense of smell, we have hazmat suits, they can't smell food, so they don't wake up."

"Well, meat is actually their alarm clock!" Pandee felt that he had stood next to the devourers for so long, and they didn't even move, it seemed that Wang Xingguo's statement was right.

Walking through the moth pile, Pandey saw that some of the devours had burn marks on their bodies, and it seemed that they were omnivores, and when they had no meat to eat, they would regularly eat the "moss" in order to survive, and then return here to hibernate and wait for the moss to grow next......

Sometimes, human beings have to marvel at the tenacious survival ability of creatures, in such a harsh place, these devours can survive, and have evolved such a set of survival methods. However, when there is an existential conflict between humans and other species, humans have always been able to win with their own powerful technological strength......

"Well, as long as you don't bite people on the ground, I don't want to roast any more bugs...... Pandey said.

If the devourers are also thoughtful, I wonder what they will do in the face of thousands of their own kind on the ground dying under the cold and flames?

Perhaps it was the reverence for life, Pandey suddenly felt that the devours that came out of the ground in order to survive were a little pitiful, and maybe it was best for everyone to stay underground.

Of course, the devourers don't know what's going on in the minds of the people who enter here, the survival instinct triggers their dormant genes, and they don't even know that a human has already stepped into their territory, and if there is no stimulation from the smell of food, they will dormant until the "moss" matures. The first spores fall into this wormhole, they will wake up and run to the moss canteen, after they have stored enough energy, they will give up and lay eggs, and the life of the devourer will come to an end here, and the next generation of devours repeats this life, unless one day, the ground above the head is dug up, and the smell of the meat on the ground that can provide more energy will touch the genes devoured by the devouring of the phagous, and the phagogues desperately chase just to get more nutrients before the end of their lives, It stores more energy for the next generation, but it is difficult for the devours to survive the winter on the ground, and they do everything they can to find a better living environment for themselves and the next generation. In some ways, there is not much difference between the devourers and the aborigines who roam the wasteland, except for the difference in species......

"Life is great, and life is humble!" Pandey suddenly blurted out a very philosophical sentence.

"Pandey, I think we're on the verge of greatness." Tchaikov saw something in the distance and sighed as well.

This is a palace made of stones, huge stones are neatly stacked into the shape of houses and steps, but there are more stones and half-processed stones in the hall, this is an oval building about the size of a football field, the surrounding stones are like rows of stools in the gymnasium, many places have not been completed, the work seems to have been carried out less than a third, the ground at the bottom has been paved with stone slabs, and in the center is a flat-topped pyramid made of stones and stones, About 10 meters high, the stone paved steps lead to the top of the pyramid, and there are a total of 8 well-shaped stones around the flat roof, which are also carved with patterns, and in the center is an altar with a red dragon carved on the top of the altar......

"Is this true? The ancestors really built a palace underground! Tchaikov muttered to himself, all along, he thought it was just a legend.

"This is a place of sacrifice?" Pandey asked.

"It's as if they're not done." Tchaikov replied.

Standing in front of the great project that his ancestors had built underground, Tchaikov was silent, bowed his head, and secretly prayed in his heart.

Looking at it from the current point of view, old Tchaikov was superstitious, but in that era when science was not developed, only superstition could alleviate their fear of disaster.

Xia Ruobing looked at the red dragon on the altar, it was a hornless dragon, and looked down at this dragon, the pillars and edges of the altar were engraved with many twisted words.

"Lu Wen!" Xia Ruobing exclaimed, this proves that Tchaikov and Dick are not lying, this is indeed an underground palace built by the Loulan people.

Xia Ruobing approached and looked at the words carefully, this was an altar for the sacrifice of the Loulan royal family, but it had never been used, and most of the places were abandoned before they were completed, only those Lu Wen were telling the secret of Loulan that had disappeared for 2,000 years.

There was a serious disaster in Loulan 2000 years ago, the water source was drying up, the Huns coveted it, and the rising Han Dynasty in the east also put pressure on them, the sorcerers had been expelled, and they left a curse on the Loulan royal family, cursing that they would never be able to make up for the sins they had committed, the royal family of Loulan would wither, and the remaining people would bear the curse forever until the end of time! But the royal family did not think so, until the internal and external difficulties could not be solved, the king of Loulan decided to ask the Han for help, but was opposed by other royal families, the royal family was irretrievably divided, and finally the king led the people loyal to him to seek the help of the Han, while other royal families chose to surrender to the Xiongnu......

The royal family who surrendered did not get the courtesy of the Xiongnu, they became the servant army of the Xiongnu, under the ruthless blow of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu fled to the west, and those Loulan people also had to leave their homeland, and were coerced by the Huns along the Eurasian continent to the West, but the longing for their homeland, the cruelty of the Huns, so that the Loulan royal family finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they launched a riot. The Huns were furious in the face of Loulan's betrayal, extinguished the rebellion of the Loulan people, and banished the remaining Loulan people to this deserted wasteland, and wanted to use the sky and earth that the Loulan people worshiped the most to kill them, so that Loulan could exterminate the tribe.

The moment on the altar records the reason why the Loulan royal family came here, the Loulan people who were exiled here include the royal family and their attendants, more than 10,000 people came here when there were only more than 3,000 people left, most of them died on the way to banishment, in order to escape the cold, they had to get close to the volcano, using the heat of the volcano to prolong life, where the Loulan people picked up the first gem, the desperate Loulan people exchanged gems and diamonds with foreign tribes for the necessities of life, followed the footprints of the volcano, and finally found the diamond mineThe people of Loulan are prosperous again, and the longing for their homeland makes them decide to build the royal tomb of the royal family in the mountains according to the ancestral system of Loulan, and there must be stars and rivers in the royal tomb, and everything must be like the hot homeland, so that the royal family who are far away from the homeland can rest here.

After the wizard was expelled, the witch Gu and the devouring insects have become a technology that is almost impossible to master, but the Loulan people also brought the witch Gu here, and were surprised to find some kind of mysterious moss in the cave, they can amplify the power of the witch Gu dozens of times, and at this time, because of the diamond mine, there was a disagreement within the Loulan people, and the wealth was intoxicated, after a bloodbath, the location of the royal tomb and the diamond mine was only known to the guardians of the royal tomb, and the rest of the Loulan people could only be hard-working worker ants, and all the benefits were distributed by the supreme leader of the royal family, And in order to protect the diamond mine and the royal tomb, they used insect devouring and witchcraft as the last barrier, the Loulan people finally survived the crisis that internal strife would lead to extinction again, and the royal tomb was built for hundreds of years, but the crisis slowly fermented underground, when the Loulan people built the palace, sky and altar according to the ancestral system......

It seems that the altar was abandoned in a very hasty manner, and was never rebuilt, and remained silent underground for more than a thousand years......

"Maybe it's because the worm eaters and witch Gu have broken out, and the people of Loulan can't rebuild this underground palace anymore." Wang Xingguo said.

"Blessings and misfortunes, how can this matter be explained clearly?" Xia Ruobing sighed.

"Let's go, we're not far from the diamond mines." After Tchaikov prayed for his ancestors, the general situation was clarified, and they had more important things to do.

Wang Xingguo looked at this unfinished project, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion when human beings were pursuing wealth, in order to seek peace of mind, but no matter how much effort those Loulan people made back then, only such an unfinished palace with no words to tell the past, it is unimaginable that in order to build this palace, how much effort they put in, how much time it spent, but with the passage of time, all this seems so ridiculous now!

If it doesn't make sense, why do it? Wang Xingguo thinks that human beings sometimes have such an obsession, or to seek an inner balance.

"In short, after all the efforts, my ancestors understood that the wealth here does not belong to anyone, and they should lie down here quietly......" Tchaikov seemed to see through Wang Xingguo's thoughts, and relieved Wang Xingguo with one sentence.

"Yes, there are some things that you have to try before you know if they will succeed." Wang Xingguo said with a smile.

From the perspective of a third party, anyone can judge the actions of others, but it is not an easy thing for the parties to take the step of trying. They bear the 100% consequences of defeat and the shame of being spit on by tens of millions, the Loulan royal family failed, the newly thriving ethnic group was almost wiped out, and the old Tchaikov was entangled with the aborigines all his life after his defeat, and the family was thus burdened with the responsibility of guarding the royal tombs and wealth for hundreds of years, while the aborigines felt that these defenders of the wasteland were arrogant and unreasonable, relying on the advantage of money and equipment to rob them of their own diamonds......