Chapter 42: The Sealed Cicada

Wang Pengcheng shook his head and said: "We just have a preconceived idea that it is a creature from an extraterrestrial, and there is no evidence, maybe it is a native of the earth at all, but we don't know each other." ”

Xiao Ling pointed to the words "Chang'e" above, and gestured to ask the old dwarf, who shook his head, obviously he had never heard of the legend of "Chang'e".

Several dwarves stepped forward, already joining forces to push the closed palace gate, wanting to enter this "Chang'e Bondage" to see what was going on.

Xiao Ling and the others discussed the various possibilities of this "Chang'e Tie" while watching these dwarves pushing the palace gate.

Yi Shujuan said: "This is engraved with 'Chang'e Tie', 'Chang'e' We all know that she is the legendary Hou Yi's wife, and later stole Hou Yi's elixir of immortality, and flew to the moon, what does 'Tie' mean?" ”

Li Li said: "I know, 'Tie' is a black rope that binds prisoners in ancient times, and generally extends to the meaning of prison or imprisonment. ”

"Tie means prison and captivity?" Xiao Ling's heart sank slightly, and he looked at Li Li.

Li Li hummed and nodded.

Wang Pengcheng muttered: "Chang'e Prison, doesn't that mean that this is Chang'e Prison?" Or what does Chang'e prison mean? ”

Xiao Ling's face was slightly solemn, and he said, "Could it be that the real meaning of these four words is that this is a place where Chang'e is imprisoned?" The palace is actually a prison. ”

Yi Shujuan was surprised: "Could it be that there is really such a person as Chang'e in the world, and she is still imprisoned here?" ”

Xiao Ling felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and just as he was about to speak, the dwarves shouted in unison, exerting their strength together, and finally pushed the two heavy boulder palace doors open.

As soon as the palace door opened, a light shone out from inside.

Everyone was slightly startled, they didn't think that there would be light inside, and they couldn't help but retreat, and then these dwarves all looked in with some nervous and excited looks, but for a while, no one dared to enter easily.

Xiao Ling stepped forward and looked inside through the palace door that was pushed open.

Inside the palace, there was nothing, and the four walls were lit with everlasting lamps, and the light just now was the light released by these everlasting lamps.

Xiao Ling looked at these ever-bright lanterns, his heart moved slightly, he knew that in ancient times, some kings' tombs would place ever-bright lanterns, hoping that they could be as brilliant as the palaces before their deaths.

It's just that this palace is buried deep underground, and I don't know how many years have passed, the everlasting lamp has not been extinguished, and everyone has shown a shocked look in their eyes.

Xiao Ling thought of the ancient book he had seen under the guidance of Wang Lei before, which told about the oil used in this kind of ever-bright lamp, the rarest of which is the oil refined by the shark people in the South China Sea, known as the South China Sea shark oil, it is said that the use of this shark oil in the lantern can not be extinguished for thousands of years.

The so-called merman, also known as Quanke, is a mysterious creature with a fishtail in the legend, similar to the mermaid in Western mythology, in the ancient book "Sou Shen Ji" there is a record about it: "There are mermaids outside the South China Sea, the water dwells like fish, does not waste weaving, and its eyes can produce pearls when they cry." ”

This is said that this kind of shark in the South China Sea is good at weaving, can make the dragon silk that is not wet in the water, and the tears become beads, it is said that the oil ignition point of this shark is very low, once it burns will not be extinguished for 10,000 years, and it is rumored that there is an ever-bright lamp with shark oil as fuel in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

At this moment, Xiao Ling saw that the ever-bright lights in this palace buried deep in the ground and unknown for thousands or even thousands of years were still not extinguished, so he immediately thought of this kind of merman oil.

With the help of the light of this everlasting lamp, everyone saw that the hall was very wide and deep, but there was nothing and nothing.

Everyone looked at each other for a while, and no one expected that this would be a magnificent empty hall.

Sure that there was no danger, the dwarves who pushed open the palace gate couldn't help but be curious and began to walk in.

Xiao Ling also felt a little strange, this palace is called "Chang'e Bondage", according to the literal meaning, this seems to be a prison where Chang'e is imprisoned, but now there is nothing here, could it be that "Chang'e" has left? Or for other reasons, does this "Chang'e" refer to a certain person's name, or is it actually a weapon like "Hou Yi", or is it the name of a flying machine that everyone has just speculated?

With doubts, everyone passed through the palace gate one after another and walked in.

Entering the palace, everyone looked very cautious, the main hall was very empty, it looked empty, and the four walls were not carved with any words or records, but on the ground, some runes were engraved.

It's just that even Xiao Ling couldn't understand these runes, and when he asked these dwarves, he found that they all shook their heads, indicating that they couldn't understand them either.

"Strange, since this is a palace built by the ancestors of the dwarves, how come these words carved don't even the dwarves know them? Are these not words? Is it some kind of spell? ”

Xiao Ling frowned slightly.

Everyone walked towards the depths of this palace, and Xiao Ling found that the more they walked inside, the more complex the spell patterns engraved on the surface became, and the ground gradually appeared amber.

"It seems that there is something unusual in this palace, or there should be something under this palace."

Xiao Ling groaned, there were so many charms engraved on the ground, and the ground was even more amber, making it more and more obvious that there was something wrong under this palace.

This palace is about 100 meters deep, and everyone quickly came to the end, as Xiao Ling guessed, there is no problem whether it is the four walls or the top, the only problem is in the underground of this palace.

Walking to the deepest part of the deep hall, the original amber color became more and more transparent, and the ground of the last ten meters seemed to be completely transparent, as if the ground of the last ten meters was a super giant amber.

In the near-transparent amber ground material, everyone saw something.

Everyone paused, silently staring at the amber ground below, and instinctively took a deep breath.

In this transparent amber ground, there is a cicada.

It is a grayish-black cicada, with two pairs of membranous wings on its back, a broad, short head, and a pair of compound eyes, which is enclosed in this amber ground and does not move.

Most of the cicadas are not large, Xiao Ling has also seen cicadas, the general body length is only about two to five centimeters, he remembers the world's largest emperor cicada, the body length is only about seven centimeters.

But when everyone saw the cicadas in the amber ground, it was so big that it made people's scalps tingle.

Its body length reaches five meters.

"What kind of cicada is this, even if it was a giant insect in prehistory, it is impossible for a cicada to grow five meters long." Yi Shujuan couldn't help but cover her mouth and snort softly, with a look of horror on her face.