Chapter 382: Firefly Lantern
In the dim light, I stepped on the hard rock layer, and was about to walk past the last statue, but I had a vague feeling that something was not right.
When I turned around, I found that this stone statue seemed to be indescribably similar to the four protectors of Buddhism in mythological stories.
For example, the Oriental Heavenly King holding the pipa in his hand has an indescribable identity with the second stone statue in front of him, and the stone statue is also holding a round musical instrument, and in mythological stories, the four heavenly kings are in charge of the four major states of the world.
As the protectors of Buddhism, although these gods are majestic, they are also compassionate, but the corners of the four stone statues in front of them are filled with a strange smile.
Coupled with the appearance of no eyes, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and I was overwhelmed by an unknown weirdness in my heart.
For some reason, the air around me became hotter than before after crossing the bridge, and I even had to take off my shirt and wipe the hot sweat from my body.
Suchak beside him seemed to be guided by something, desperately walking through the darkness.
I hurriedly abandoned the stone statue in front of me and followed his footsteps little by little towards the deeper depths of darkness.
At the same time, I also saw a scene that I will never forget in my life, even if my right hand holding the pen is still trembling slightly.
After walking through a short crack in the deep underground rock, the scene suddenly opened up, and I stared at the scene in front of me with wide eyes, as if my chest was being pressed hard by something and I couldn't breathe.
In the dim light, a huge stone gate stood in front of him, carved with strange patterns, and even from a distance, he looked like a humble ant.
Sujčak's pace was getting faster and faster, and he didn't know if he was shocked by the sight in front of him, or if he had a premonition of his daughter's breath.
I followed his footsteps to avoid the sharp prisms in the darkness, and the two of them finally reached the bottom of the stone door.
The surroundings were pitch black and boundless, and the hot wind gradually warmed up the temperature of the surrounding air, but when I looked at the towering stone gate in front of me, I still felt an unprecedented chill.
It is estimated that the height of this stone gate is almost more than ten meters high, and because of the light, the more you look up, the more you can't see clearly.
The stone gate is surrounded by boulder ruins, and the edge is pitch black as if it were an endless abyss.
I don't know why, I stood at the foot of the stone gate and looked up, and the suppressed feeling in my heart became even stronger, and I even had an urge to kneel down and worship.
Suchak next to him couldn't help but touch the stone door with his hand, and the next second, his words suddenly made me stay in place and didn't know what to do.
He said he felt his daughter's breath, just behind the huge stone gate.
Looking at the figure of Suchak in front of me, I felt a strange impulse in my heart that I had never seen before, and the higher I went up, the more I couldn't see this stone gate clearly.
The gap also seemed to be sealed with something, and I even began to wonder if it was also a carving carved from the ground, when in fact the stone door could not be opened at all.
Unexpectedly, the obsession in Suchak's heart made him only think about his daughter, and even began to use his hands to pick open the dark red sealing mud pasted in the crack of the door.
I felt a sense of foreboding in my heart, and I picked off a little bit with my hand and sniffed it on my nose, a familiar smell permeated my heart, and even cold sweat broke out all over my body.
It smelled like some kind of animal fat, and the first thing that came to my mind was human flesh.
Looking at the messy rubble on the ground, and the thick dust falling in the dim light, it all seemed to prove to himself that it was a long, long time ago.
Directly in front of the stone gate must have been filled with many tall stone pillars and stone sacrificial vessels similar to those used for sacrifice.
In this strange underground mausoleum, there is a feudal society that has never been recorded in history, and they have excavated these stone statues without eyes and the huge stone gate in front of them.
They believed in some kind of serpentine creature without eyes, so much so that the living creatures depicted later all lacked a pair of eyes.
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this may be the truth hidden here under the mountains of Xiangxi, although it is a little incredible, but it really happened in front of me.
Suzak next to me was still using his fingers to stir at the dark red mud in the crack of the door, and at the same time, I felt my heart in my chest beating more violently than usual.
It was as if I could jump out of my throat at any moment, and I was a little scared that I couldn't put into words.
Could it be that after coming here, my body has quietly changed, and I think of my body covered with patina before entering the mountains of Xiangxi, and now I don't seem to have that itching feeling anymore.
Many of the scabbed dead skin even began to fall off, but after approaching the stone gate, my heart beat faster and more, and even the left eyelid seemed to be beating faintly.
I saw Suchak stirring the gap in the huge stone door with his hand as if he was enchanted, and I just wanted to open my mouth to dissuade him, but I didn't expect him to stop suddenly.
Keeping his previous movements, he turned his head to look at the edge of the abyss on the side, his ears twitching slightly, as if he had heard some strange sound.
I knew that his hearing was far different from that of ordinary people, and I was about to ask him what he had found, when suddenly there was a slight movement in my ears, as if something was buzzing in my ears.
I looked at the source of the sound, but I didn't expect that in the next second, a faint green light suddenly shrouded from the abyss at the edge, and the terrifying green glow was extremely eye-catching.
I frowned for a moment, realizing that something bad must be about to happen, and was about to find some weapons, only to find that there were messy pebbles all around.
There's nothing you can hold in your hands.
Seeing the huge light source gradually flying out of the abyss, his heart also rose to his throat in an instant.
Unexpectedly, when the light shrouded in, it was actually a white lantern, glowing with a faint green fluorescence.
There were hundreds of lanterns the size of these heads, and there were hundreds of them that shrouded out of the abyss, and they were covered with a thick layer of dust.
When a lantern flew closer, he couldn't help but poke a hole in it with his hand, and then thousands of glowing glowworms flew out of the hole.
Looking at these lanterns that glow with a strange green light, they are actually composed of dense fireflies.
When I came to the abyss floating out of the lantern and looked down, the originally unfathomable abyss had been completely covered by fluorescence, and there were still many strange lanterns floating upwards in the cliff.
The number is huge, hundreds or thousands.
It was only then that my premonition grew stronger, and I always felt that something strange was about to happen here, and these lanterns floated over my head little by little.
Glowing with a faint green fluorescence, it instantly illuminates the sky above the entire stone gate.