Chapter 32, The Underground Palace

At my exclamation, the guy across from me smiled.

"You've finally remembered!"

I was stunned for a moment, and I scolded in my heart that I remembered you, I really don't know you, but aren't you dead? Why is it here again?

But even if there was turmoil in my heart, I couldn't show it, so I had to suppress the fear in my heart and said to him: "I just remember a little, but it seems that my memory is also declining. ”

Sure enough, pretending to be stupid is the only way out, this is what was written in the scumbag manual, and I agree with the sentence the most.

"It's no wonder you, this place is weird."

I raised my eyebrows, thinking that you had finally gotten down to business, so I asked, "What do you say?" ”

He looked at me, patted his pants and got up from the campfire.

"You come with me."

Nodding, he left the camp and walked into the interior of the forest without flashlight.

Instead of following the path, he tore through the vines and plunged headlong into the dense forest in the direction of a rock wall not far away.

"Hey, wait." I had just replaced the flashlight, but even with the light, it was difficult to walk through such a dense grass, and here I could still see the ruins of some ancient wooden houses, and it seemed that this was an abandoned ancient ancestral residence.

Fortunately, after walking for 10 minutes, the guy stopped under the light of the flashlight.

"I've walked this path countless times, so it's clear." He said to me, "Come and see, old dog, I stumbled upon this thing." ”

I took the flashlight from my hand and shone it on the rock wall, only to see that the place was a man-high, more than 20-meter-long mountain crack, and the rock wall in the mountain was full of vines, it was a plant with all green leaves ovate, with pale yellow umbrella-like inflorescences on the branches, and the fruit was cylindrical-lanceolate.

"Here?"

"Get in!" The guy patted me and got head into it first, and then he ripped open the vines in the crack in the mountain, revealing a dark hole.

I didn't think much about it immediately, and lowered my head and got in.

After entering, I instantly felt that the surroundings were much more spacious, and as the guy came in, the light shone through here.

Oh my God, this is a huge space, and the light of the flashlight does not end here, and all you can see is the orderly stone pillars standing in the middle.

Is this an artificial structure? Is it an ancient site?

"So big?" I was taken aback, "What the hell is this place?" ”

"It's just an abandoned palace." The guy waved his hand and shone the flashlight over his head.

When I looked up, I saw that above this space was a beautiful architectural ceiling, whose format was closed layer by layer, and it was not exquisite. The top corner of each layer also lies on the male master a statue, the eaves of the upper hall are decorated with copper bells, the hall is decorated with copper pillars and golden tops, the momentum is majestic and magnificent.

It's just that it doesn't match the fact that, because of its age, the entire ground here is littered with fragments of the ceiling's bucket arches and rubble, and there are even many animal and human bones, I stared over and found that the human bones were full of spears and arrows, and they seemed to have been deliberately killed in this place.

And as we go deeper, more and more of those corpses are killed, and the breath of death is full of all the way, and this is simply a cemetery.

"Don't look, you're going inside!" He stepped forward and led me through the darkness.

I walked in the dark hall, the stone pillars around me were like doors, and when I looked closely, I could see that there were exquisite dragon climbing carvings on them, and their shapes were vigorous and simple, and the whole body was full of muscles and flesh, and the body was covered with scales, making a roaring appearance.

Further ahead, the light of the flashlight shone a lot of black shadows in the darkness, and they stood densely in the distance.

"It's the Bronze Man." He explained, like a tour guide.

When I walked around, I found that there were hundreds of bronze statues, the scale was breathtaking, and their shapes and styles were basically the same, all of them had straight noses and wide mouths, and long domes and long eyebrows. But they all wore flower-like crowns decorated with animal faces and paper patterns on their heads, and wore three layers of ornate garments. Arms raised flat, placed in front of the chest, the hands are huge, held in mysterious circles, the palms of the hands are hollow, facing each other up and down, as if performing some ancient ritual.

However, the difference in size is extremely large, some are equal to human height, and some are only half a human being, which is the obvious manifestation of class differentiation in ancient times.

After walking through the group of "people", an altar made of blue bricks and boulders appeared.

It was flanked by multicolored canvas with words written on it that I couldn't read, and when I looked up at it with a flashlight, I saw that the words were somewhat similar to the ones in the diary I found in the basement.

The walls around the altar are covered with murals painted on a white background and three colors, in addition to the murals of the sacrifice to heaven and earth, which are paintings of tribal migration and war, including hunting, farming, architecture, and rituals, covering all the fields of the tribe, these may be priceless treasures for scholars who study the history of the dynasties, but for people like me, it is of no great use, I only hope to find out the origin of this underground fall, but for a while, I am dazzled.

Luckily, the guy next to me knew everything about the place, so he explained a few words to me, and then led me to a mural, and pointed at me to see a 5 or 6 points.

It turned out that this tribe was originally a branch of a country on the ground, but due to the war, they were forced to displace, but according to the prompting of their sorcerer leader, they entered an underground along a cave, and then built a village underground, and as they developed underground, they soon met the mountain gods and mountain ghosts guarding the underground, in order to seek a larger space, they chose to worship the mountain gods, and built a temple.

The content of this and Scarface's guess are already eight or nine and ten.

However, the mural still does not describe the so-called "mountain", so all I can know is the details of the tribe that lived in the cave, and there is no information about the way out.

"Isn't this all tribal stuff?" I frowned and glanced at the guy next to me, not to blame him for the discrepancy in the information, but the gap in my heart was a bit big, and the only thing I wanted to know was how to get out of this damn place.

"Oh, it's up there!" Then he pointed in the direction of the altar.

The direction he pointed to was the top of the altar, which was divided into three layers, the first altar was flanked by two bronze statues with animal bodies and human faces, and in the middle there was a square tripod, on which stood four bronze birds, they stretched their necks and legs, full of dynamics.

On the second floor, there are huge bronze shelves on four sides, and there are some things scattered on the shelves.

The third floor is a dilapidated ruin that is incompatible with the splendid atmosphere here, as if the pavilion built before has been crushed by a powerful force, and the top floor of the palace altar is full of rubble and broken bricks at a glance.

"What's going on here?"

"It's just an abandoned palace, and someone destroyed it when they evacuated."

"Purpose?"

"I don't know." He held up his flashlight, pointed to the ruins not far away, and said, "But there's something you want to know about it." ”

The three floors are connected by staircases that wind up from both sides, and look like a viaduct from a distance. He led me up the stairs, and when I walked through the second floor, I saw a lot of empty space on the shelves, probably some ritual and ritual utensils used to be placed, but now all I could see at a glance were the skeletons lying on the shelves.

"Why are these corpses only half of their bodies?" I asked the guy next to me curiously.

He looked at me, "Do you cut off a whole piece of meat at a time when you cook?" ”

These words are a bit nonsensical, but under the careful taste, it makes me shiver a few times, and a chill lingers on my spine for a long time.

I hurriedly walked up the stairs, and soon in the ruins of the top floor, I found the "thing I wanted" mentioned by the guy. ”

It is a golden tablet the size of a basketball hoop, the stele base is held up by four people arching backs, the stele body is distributed with the pattern of the divine bird around the sun, the stele head is a round of hollow sun-shaped device, and the two ends of the sun are golden flying fish and arrowheads.

"In the records, this place belongs to a tribe called 'silkworms'." The guy said next to me.

I then looked towards the stele, and saw that in addition to a small amount of text, there were also drawings one by one, the pictures were simple and easy to understand, there were four drawings each, the first was a picture of the tribe migrating into the ground with a crack in the ground. The second shows a wizard who takes the lead into the underground, holding something in his hand, and then the cracks in the ground begin to merge, and the underground returns to a single piece. The third is a picture of rituals, including activities such as worshipping mountain gods, divination, and witchcraft, and all the people in the scene are wearing masks, which is extremely strange.

These three pictures are basically counted, and I didn't care much about the series of activities of the entire tribe after they came underground, but when I saw the fourth picture, the whole person was stunned.

It was a picture of a person holding a key and then locking it into a box.

And the key was officially mailed to me by Du Chen, and then stolen by Li Jun. And the box was the one I pulled out of my desk in the basement room.

"Wait...... Wait......"

"That's not right...... Not right......"

There was a trance in my mind, if the box was the key I received, then when the key had been taken out by Du Chen, what was in the box now?

I was thinking about it, and subconsciously went to dig out the box in the pocket of my clothes, but after digging for a long time, I suddenly found that my clothes had already been ripped to pieces, and the box I had put in my pocket before was long gone.