Chapter Twenty-Four: The Returning Pocket Watch
Six soldiers from the R side, carrying cylinders, stepped out of the crowd and began to spray rapidly frozen liquid nitrogen at minus 210 degrees Celsius in all directions, intersecting with the high temperature, and rising a white hazy mist.
The temperature dropped rapidly, and everyone shook their sweaty and soaked tops, which was much more comfortable.
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Everyone looked at the rock wall curiously, and on the top of the high roof, a blood-colored giant with eight snake heads and eight long tails, with a crazy posture and a fierce and bloodthirsty expression, looked down at them.
It is also a mural, spread all over the oval high roof, compared to the previous mural, it is obviously much more detailed, including the scale texture of its body is vividly outlined, as the light and smoke rise, faintly like a living thing.
Many people were taken aback.
"Ah~~~" Liu Ziwei grabbed Wen Qi's clothes in fear.
"Don't be afraid of fakes."
The translator next to the officer on the R side hurriedly explained. "Don't be afraid, it's fake, it's a painting of the famous god of calamity in Chinese mythology - the Yaqi Snake."
When he said this, he looked a little arrogant......
Yagi Orochi is also known as: Yatsumata Yuan Lu Zhi, legend has it that it is a fierce giant snake that can bring disaster, with a terrifying appearance of eight heads and eight tails, and its body contains a legendary sword.
Another legend holds that the Yaki Snake is a hybrid descendant of the 'Xiangliu' in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Legend has it that there are nine heads of Xiangliu, with a human face and a snake body, and everywhere it goes is a swamp.
There are many opinions, but they are all myths, and no one has seen them with their own eyes.
But the mural in front of me with a rather realistic demeanor can't help but make everyone wonder whether this creature really exists in an unknown civilization period, like a dragon in China.
Going around to the back of the central disc, everyone saw that a 2-meter-by-2-meter square hole opened in the ground, running vertically through the ground, and heat waves gushed from the hole, faintly flashing red.
On the edge of the cave stands a half-human-high stone tablet, with twisted characters engraved on both sides of the front and back, which can be searched for all known fonts around the world, but there is currently no match for it.
The stele showed signs of being rotated 90 degrees, and the group of archaeological teams that were supposed to be missing dragged it and opened the hole on the side.
Several Z-side archaeology professors slowly walked towards the entrance of the cave, wanting to see the specific situation. As a result, as soon as the probe was made, the eyebrows and hair were instantly curled by the heat wave, and the eyes were sore.
Seeing that at the bottom of the cave 2 or 30 meters away, the magma was rolling, and the stone wall was red like blood, so they hurriedly took a few steps back.
One of them was at a loss, "We're right above the magma layer, and the missing people won't go down from here." â
The interpreter on the R side came out and explained: "For several weeks, we have searched the jungle and mountains within a radius of several kilometers, including all corners of this cave, but this cave cannot go down, so ...... We guess. â
"No way, as long as they don't go crazy, no one will go down." The middle-aged man who suddenly opened his mouth to refute was the Z team leader of this search and rescue mission, named Pan Tenghua, one of the deputy directors of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Social Sciences.
The translator smiled bitterly and spread his hands, "Pan Sang, this cave was opened as a normal rock wall at the beginning, but the day after the archaeological team disappeared, magma began to emerge from the bottom of the cave.
That's why we wonder if the archaeological team went down and used blasting or triggered some mechanism, which caused the rock wall to break, and now the magma in the cave is rising every day, and we are helpless. â
The crowd fell silent.
If people really want to be down there, then they can save a fart, and they must be gone with ashes!
Wen Qi stood in the middle of the crowd, and from the moment he saw the words on the stone tablet, the whole person was stunned as if he was enchanted, and he didn't move.
Those words he knew, they were the 'Aigu' font commonly used in the exiled continent in another world.
A cold touch came from his chest, and the most strange thing was that the pocket watch stolen by Guan Ruyue returned to him early without waiting for the teleportation time.
The anomaly completely breaks the previous law.
At this time, there was a strong call fluctuation on the pocket watch, which went straight to Wenqi's mind, and there seemed to be something in the cave that attracted it again.
For the first time, Wen Qi felt the urgency and desire of humanity from his appearance, and his face changed dramatically.
Is a gold pocket watch alive? Does it have an ego mind?
"Wen Qi, Wen Qi~~~ Are you okay, why is your face so ugly." Liu Ziwei beside her noticed Wen Qi's strangeness.
"Oh oh~ Maybe it's too hot here, I feel a little uncomfortable." Wen Qi, who came back to his senses, didn't care about looking at the contents of the stone tablet, turned around and walked out.
No matter what has changed to pocket watches, now is not the time to find out.
This cave ruins must have something to do with pocket watches, and now that there are so many people, he needs to go out and find a quiet place to think about his next plans.
Seeing that Wen Qi said that she was uncomfortable, Liu Ziwei also followed out.
The others didn't care about their departure, and everyone began to look around for other entrances, while the archaeologists were all drawn to the inscriptions.
The front depicts the origins of a tribe known as the Beasts, whose ancestors came from an unknown 'lost' civilization and served the Aragami and summoned prehistoric beasts to fight for them through special blood rituals.
And the place where the giant beast came was called "Exiled Continent", which was the same name as the other world in the Wen family's pocket watch.
Wen Qi took a rough look at the basic gist of that, and when he returned to the exit of the mountain stream, the abnormal fluctuations of the pocket watch on his chest finally stopped. Turning around and walking back into the cave, the fluctuations suddenly returned.
It turns out that there is a distance limit......
What does it want? What will it become when you get it? These are all unknowns, and if you want to know, you have to wait until late at night when no one is around.
Liu Ziwei is like a fart, Wen Qi turned around and she walked back.
"Why are you following me if you're fine?"
"Why don't I accompany you to the hospital, nothing else." She was really worried that Wen Qi would have internal injuries if she fell, after all, this kind of thing is quite common, some people who have been in a car accident start to look fine, and after a while, they will be bleeding from the viscera and will not have time to be sent to the hospital for rescue.
"No need, go get busy with you, I'll find a place to rest for a while."
"If you don't feel well, call someone."
"yes, got it." Throwing off Liu Ziwei's tail, Wen Qi found a Tongpu tent on the Z side, chose a location near the door, and after simply cleaning up, he pretended to fall asleep.
The whole mountain stream is 6 green and 1 white, 7 temporary tents are set up in a semi-circular terrain, the white tents are specially built for medical staff and girls, each tent can sleep about 12 people up and down.
In the open space reserved in the middle, the military of country R has already begun to build a steel gantry for towing.
This was part of the pre-departure plan, they were to take the stele and bronze disc, and maybe even the frescoes on the rock wall would have to be cut and taken away in pieces, and then a transport helicopter would lift them directly.
The armed police and medical staff who stayed behind were busy sorting things and making beds.
More than 2 hours later, the sun went down, and the golden orange glow was like igniting clouds, which attracted the attention of many people. The people inside the ruins were evacuated, and several experts were excitedly discussing the frescoes and the words on the steles.
Liu Ziwei was holding the lunch box and was looking for Wen Qi everywhere, this guy was missing for no reason, and asked people around but didn't see where he went.