Chapter Fifty-Eight: The True Return to the Ruins
Pulling the rope, Xiao Ling alternated his hands, quickly climbed up again, and told everyone the points he had just discovered.
Listening to his observations and judgments, everyone looked shocked and pensive.
Professor Li Zhibao's face was solemn, and he said slowly: "This is really an amazing discovery, since it can be determined that this is really the remains of a giant, it means that in the past era, there really existed giants as high as 100 meters, of course, this can only be a preliminary judgment, and it cannot be completely qualified." ”
Wang Lei said: "If this is really a giant, and the corpse has not yet decomposed, maybe the time of death is not long, will there be other living giants here." ”
This sentence made the others slightly startled, and Hu Shengzhe hurriedly said: "Impossible, corpse mushrooms have grown on this corpse, which means that it has been dead for a long time, as for why it has not decayed, maybe it is related to the particularity of this giant's body as Xiao Ling just said." ”
Xiao Ling nodded, thinking that this giant's skin was ten times tougher than that of humans, and perhaps he was born with the special ability not to decay after death, so this corpse did not decay, which did not mean that it had died for a short time, and it was possible that it had already died for a hundred years, thousands of years, or even ten thousand years.
"The earthquake just now shook a large number of underground cracks, and we will go to see if there are any new discoveries in other cracks." Yu Tingting proposed, and everyone nodded in agreement.
Although the discovery of a buried giant corpse in the ground is very shocking, but now there is a lack of instruments to conduct more research on this corpse, and everything just now is just Xiao Ling's preliminary personal judgment, and no final conclusion can be drawn.
Everyone continued to walk towards the fourth crack that appeared in front of them, and under this crack, the gray-white substance was found again, and now everyone already knew that this gray-white substance was actually the skin color of the giant's corpse, but because the corpse was too large, the cracks in the ground could not fully reveal it, and everyone could not see the whole picture of the giant's corpse, only the gray-white skin revealed below.
After that, the crowd saw a fifth crack.
In this crack, everyone saw a huge palm with a length of nearly ten meters, which was clenched into a fist, and even on the surface of the fist, they could see green tendons protruding from the drums, like a thick snake python lying under gray-white skin.
On the wrist of this giant palm, the people saw the chains.
Sun Tao struck the beam of the searchlight on the chain under the crack.
"This is a torture instrument...... The giant's wrists were chained when he was alive. Zhou Kesheng's face was slightly moved.
Xiao Ling said: "This is getting more and more interesting. ”
Yu Tingting glanced at him and said, "What's interesting?" Shouldn't it be scary? There was actually such a hundred-meter giant that once existed, and it was also wearing a torture instrument, maybe because he had committed some crime, he wore a torture instrument, and it may even be buried alive in this underground, so it seems that maybe there was once a giant tribe or kingdom here. ”
Wang Lei narrowed his eyes and said, "Girl, your associations are quite rich, are you buried alive......"
Xiao Ling looked ahead, the originally lush mushroom forest, because of the shaking just now, became staggered, the further ahead, the more serious the damage, the more cracks appeared on the ground, obviously the source of the earthquake was still ahead.
The crowd continued to move forward, their faces becoming more and more shocked, and they found more giant corpses.
These corpses, with torture instruments locked on their wrists and ankles, are very similar to Yu Tingting's previous conjecture, it seems that in the distant past, there were groups of giants up to 100 meters high, wearing chain torture instruments on their hands and feet, were driven into the huge pit deep underground, and then buried alive.
"Can anyone tell me what the hell happened here?" Hu Shengzhe muttered to himself, sweating profusely from his forehead.
Wang Lei held a pipe in his hand, his face was a little fierce, and he was smoking one cigarette after another.
He was addicted to cigarettes, he had endured it for a long time, and now he couldn't bear it anymore, and finally lit the cigarette and took a deep breath, and then he felt satisfied.
The ground in front of him was slowly tilting, and more and more ground was collapsing into it, revealing an unfathomable dark crack below, and when I looked into this dark crack with a searchlight, I could only see pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.
Xiao Ling suddenly heard a faint voice coming from the distance.
"Everyone, be quiet." Xiao Ling opened his mouth and asked everyone not to speak.
The others stopped and looked at him together.
Xiao Ling shook his head at everyone, then gathered his mind and listened attentively.
Then, he heard a crisp "bang", which at first he thought was the sound of the water flowing in the underground river, but soon he felt that it was not the sound of the water, but more like the sound of an iron chain dragging it.
When he thought of the chains, he thought of the corpses of these giants buried in the ground, the chains on their hands and feet.
The others all surrounded Xiao Ling, looking at each other, they couldn't feel any abnormal sounds, they didn't have Xiao Ling's hearing.
Xiao Ling listened carefully, quickly determined the specific direction, stretched out his hand and pointed to the right front, and said, "Let's go there, there seems to be a sound coming out, maybe something." ”
Everyone had no objection to Xiao Ling's proposal, and followed him towards the front right.
Soon, the strange sound was heard.
The voice was staccato and not continuous.
The closer they got, the louder the sound became, and more and more giant corpses appeared on the ground, and finally, the ground was almost completely replaced by giant corpses, densely packed.
At a glance, there were piles of giant corpses, the number of which was beyond imagination.
The intermittent sound was coming from the depths where the corpses of countless giants were piled up, and in order to continue to move forward, everyone had to climb on top of these giant corpses, trampling on the corpses and continuing to walk.
Eventually, the crowd stopped.
Xiao Ling took a deep breath, he understood that the real return to the ruins had arrived.
In front of everyone, a huge underground cave appeared, and the remains of these giants up to 100 meters high were piled up on one side of the cave, and everyone was standing on the belly of a giant, holding a searchlight, illuminating the darkness ahead.
In the darkness ahead, there is an unfathomable abyss.
On the rock walls around this huge underground abyss, everyone saw living giants.
These giants, bound to the abyss rock wall by thick iron chains, seemed to be sleeping, and the sound just now was the crisp sound of their unconscious swinging arms and pulling the chains on their arms.
Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.