We took out our flashlights and started exploring the cave.

Observing along the way, I found that the rock walls here are different from the other caves, they look very dry, and they have not been eroded by the groundwater, and the ground is as smooth as cement, clean and free of any stones and other debris, and it feels like it is prepared for people to live in.

After 100 meters, the space became larger and larger, and there were already reserved torches on the rock walls on both sides, and something like chandeliers hung on the dome.

Suddenly, a perfume-like smell wafted in, very fresh and pleasant, which was completely out of line with the situation of a cave.

As the light of our flashlights faded, simple wooden benches appeared in front of us, divided into four tiers and circled around a high altar-like platform.

Looking at the deepest part of the cave, which looks like a church, there is a huge complete fresco, the content of which is a dense crowd of people on the clouds, each with different movements and demeanors, and it can be seen through their clothing that these people actually cover all social classes, including graceful and luxurious royal wealthy merchants, simple and ordinary ordinary people, and ragged and miserable poor.

All these lifelike depictions of people have their eyes looking at one place, that is, the circular platform in the middle.

"Looks right." Wang Shuai slowly walked to the middle, "This is where Mary Magdalene preached the gospel, and in the middle is the holy platform where she stands. ”

When I got closer, I found that the altar was actually made of pure gold, and after wiping away the thick dust covering it, it was also inlaid with various jewels, which flickered in the light and flickered, and it was extremely gorgeous.

"There's blood on it!" Ling'er suddenly shouted at the countertop.

Indeed, in the corner of the countertop dust, there are obvious dark red stains, in the shape of round dots of different sizes, and after the dust covering the top is disposed of, those blood stains are even more obvious, like a spill on it, only when a person stands on it and suffers a heavy blow will cause such a large area of blood splashing.

"Could it be that someone assassinated Mary here?" I looked at the blood and muttered silently.

"This is not Mary's blood." Wang Shuai said very directly, "Because the age of these blood stains is not very long, only a few hundred years. ”

"A few hundred years isn't too long!?" I looked at him in amazement.

"Mary Magdalene must have been in the first and second centuries C.E. when she took disciples to preach the gospel, nearly 2,000 years ago."

"And whose blood is it?"

"I don't know, it's likely that there are blasphemers who covet the gold or jewels on this altar and cause conflicts with the believers who are discovered." He pointed to a nearby man-made bench and said, "You see, the blood stains have a clear connection with this, and there must have been a fight here." ”

"I'm talking about you." Ling'er grunted and walked over, "Now is not the time to solve the unsolved case of history, right!?" ”

"yes." Then I realized, "Didn't we come to Mary's graveyard, why did we come to this cave to look so closely!?" ”

"Nope." Wang Shuai looked around, "Don't you think...... Is there anything strange about this? ”

"What's strange?" I looked at him suspiciously, "Isn't it just a cave that has been converted into a church?" ”

"Yes, since it's a church, there should be something that is a symbol of the church." Wang Shuai turned his head, "The statue of Christ or the cross, but there is nothing about Jesus Christ here." ”

"Could it be that someone stole it later, and it might have been made of gold, too?" I'm making wild speculations.

Wang Shuai clicked on the bracelet at this time, and suddenly frowned after looking at it: "Our current position is far away from Notre Dame de Juard, that is to say, we have left that hill, which is actually underground." ”

"No, we've come all the way flat, and we haven't gone far!?" I clicked on my bracelet in disbelief and called up the electronic map, and the coordinates of the three of us were indeed outside the mountain!

"The principle is simple." Wang Shuai continued to stare at the jeweled baptismal platform, "The seemingly flat road is actually a downhill slope, because it is not very steep, so we can't feel it, in addition, the road in the cave is not straight to the hill, but to the outer edge, which will cause you to leave the hilly area without walking much." ”

"I see!"

"By the way, team leader, now you have to ask you to do me a favor."

"Hey, don't call me the team leader here, see you outside!" I waved my hand, "Let's call me Xiaofan, by the way, what do you want me to help with?" ”

He pointed to the altar in front of him, "Let's move this out of the way." ”

"What!?" I was suddenly confused, "This is pure gold, do you know how much it will weigh!?" ”

Seeing my embarrassed appearance, Wang Shuai actually decided to do it himself, only to see that after he held the outer edge of the platform, he began to push it hard, but as I expected, the platform did not move at all, but he still refused to give up, his forehead was bruised, and he looked like he was gritting his teeth.

"You'd better go and help him......" Ling'er couldn't stand it anymore and said to me timidly.

"Okay, okay!"

After speaking, I impatiently rolled up my sleeves and walked to Wang Shuai's side, just about to exert force, but he said: "Go to the opposite side of me and push me in the opposite direction." ”

"What?" I was confused, "In the opposite direction?" Are you going to ......?"

"Hmm!" He nodded very firmly.

According to Wang Shuai's intentions, I held on to the outer edge of the altar on the opposite side of him, and after counting down to three, the two of them pushed the bulky object in different directions.

Suddenly, I only felt a burst of momentum, and under the rustling sound of friction, the holy platform was really rotated, and at the same time as we turned the platform, there was also movement in the sky, as if something terrible was happening, and this matter, only Ling'er, who was standing on the side, saw it most really.

"There's a ladder!" She suddenly shouted excitedly.

I looked up with difficulty, and indeed, at the top of the cave facing the altar, a pitch-black metal ladder was slowly descending from a half-opened hole at some unknown time, and it was falling at a speed just as fast as we turned the platform, and in addition to that, the fragrance I had smelled before was becoming more and more intense.

By the time the baptism table could no longer turn, the bottom of the ladder had fallen to a distance of less than one meter from the table.

Wang Shuai was the first to jump to the table, after making a "up" gesture to us, he began to climb up, Ling'er and I came to the table without thinking, and as we climbed higher and higher, I could feel the cool breeze from the round hole at the top, and this wind was also mixed with that wonderful fragrance......