Chapter 372: The Bronze Gate
I came to realize if my thinking was a little too far ahead, and it seemed much easier to form fossils in the soil than in the plains, given the rocky landscape here.
Maybe the palm fossil in front of me and the strange insects I saw before were produced in modern times, and this strange discovery in front of me was made.
It also made me feel a little bit interested in this tunnel, which was abandoned by the little devils back then and had not yet been dug yet.
I always felt that there must be something more terrifying hidden behind, but when I remembered that this place had been sealed by the little devil with a heavy iron door before, there was always an indescribable weirdness in my heart.
The group of high-ranking Japanese officers must have found something here, coupled with the successive supernatural events, which made the little devils have the idea of stopping the excavation.
But what could have scared them so much seemed to have to dig further to find out.
In the period that followed, Suzak and I dug the rock layers of the tunnel almost day and night, continuing the work that the little devils had not done back then.
There were more and more waste rocks piled up, and in the end, I simply stopped trying to empty them, and only cared about digging the hard rock formations in front of me.
I don't know how long it has been like this, but with my rough estimates, it will take at least half a month.
After the blood blisters on his hands were smoothed out, a thick layer of calluses grew, and he became more and more curious about the secrets in the tunnel.
With the unremitting efforts of the two of them, they finally excavated something strange except for the rock formation, and the iron chisel that was almost half an inch short was suddenly burst into sparks when it hit the rock layer.
I thought that the rock contained iron ore, but I didn't expect that as the rocks fell off, a strange cast iron pattern appeared in front of me.
I couldn't help but lift my hair that covered my eyes, and I was covered in tatters, like a beggar begging along the street.
Suchak next to him was full of beard, and he was already a little sloppy, and he was no better than me at this time.
When I saw the pattern, I finally couldn't hold back the excitement in my heart, and began to pick up the heavy hammer and keep hitting the extra stone layer on it.
As the two of them began to clean up the rock layers around the iron pattern, I realized that the strange pattern revealed in front of me was only the tip of the iceberg.
It seems to be a bronze statue of no apparent age. It has four hooves that resemble an ancient deer, but the horns on its head do not resemble the deer we are familiar with.
And behind this unknown monster is a huge bronze ancient door.
The door is roughly estimated to be nearly four meters high, and it is carved with many strange patterns that resemble people or animals.
The first thing I guessed was the bronze statue of the town tomb, and I didn't expect that in the mountains of Xiangxi, where there are many tombs, there is such a strange tomb buried nearly a thousand meters underground.
But soon, as the excavation progressed, I denied my own judgment, because the pattern in front of me really didn't tell what age it was.
In addition, the location at this time was too far from the ground, and according to the burial habits of the ancients, they had never heard of a prince burying his tomb so deep underground.
What's more, deer will be used to protect the door.
But if the bronze gate in front of you is not a tomb gate, there is some terrifying secret hidden behind it.
I suddenly realized that this would be the end of the tunnels that those little devils had worked so hard to dig.
I suddenly became more and more curious about the iron gate in front of me, but in order to seek the progress of the excavation, Suchak and I did not think about widening the entire tunnel by such a large distance when we were digging the tunnel.
It was difficult to expand the tunnel area according to the size of the iron gate, but in the end, I didn't expect it.
The fact that this heavy iron door, which I don't know which dynasty or generation we are in, can actually open inward, is also a secret that I suddenly realized when Suchak and I were almost tired from digging the rock layer horizontally, and we were almost half dead.
In this way, before the two of us could dig out the whole picture of the iron door, we almost used all our strength to push the iron door open a gap.
What he didn't expect was that Suchak couldn't wait to get in along the crack in the crack door.
For fear that he would encounter some danger inside, I didn't even bother to carry a self-defense weapon, but I just rubbed into the iron door little by little with a torch in one hand.
After entering this strange iron gate, I seem to forget that I am in an underground mine left behind by the Japanese army, but in a deep ancient tomb that has not seen the light of day.
The light emitted by the torches can only illuminate the area in front of you for half a meter, and the irregularly shaped floor tiles under your feet reflect a dark green sheen.
Beyond that, the surroundings were still shrouded in silence and darkness that could not be seen, and Suchak seemed to have night vision after an evolution that ordinary people could hardly believe.
He didn't even care about me behind him, and desperately groped his way forward in the dark. I can't help but guess.
He must have had a premonition of his daughter's traces, otherwise he wouldn't have become so impatient and impulsive.
In fact, when I think of Suchak's daughter who has been missing for six years, I will always have an inexplicable touch in my heart, in fact, according to normal people's thinking, such a young girl was abducted into the mountains of Xiangxi for six years and has not been heard from.
The end was already predestined.
Perhaps Suchak has accepted this fact in his heart, but he still wants to find his daughter's body, which can be regarded as a relief for himself.
The dim light of the fire reflected Suchuk's back in front of me, and I suddenly realized the overlooked question, how could his daughter be inside this mysterious iron gate that had been sealed for so long.
He and I have been digging tunnels for nearly half a month, and the little devil has never reached the position in front of him decades ago.
How could Suzak feel that his daughter was nearby.
Could this be a strange trap, I froze in place, and suddenly remembered the supernatural events that had happened before, and the stone statue that had unconsciously moved on its own.
I couldn't help but feel a little furious in my heart, could it be that there was a force in the dark that was using Suchak's feelings for his daughter to lure him here.
Thinking about this unrealistic speculation in my mind, I was shocked to subconsciously stand up with sweat all over my body, and if I hadn't experienced those strange events that couldn't be explained by common sense, I wouldn't have guessed in this direction.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that my guess was reasonable, and when I looked up again, I found that Suchak had quietly disappeared into the darkness, and I was so frightened that I froze in place for a moment.
In a dark environment, it is easy for people to feel deeply depressed and think of some bad things.
Now that he was alone, Suchak disappeared into the darkness as if he had evaporated.
I walked cautiously in the darkness with a faintly lit torch in my hand, but the open environment in front of me seemed surprisingly large, and I still didn't touch the edge for a long time.