After 8 o'clock in the evening, there are no people walking on the road in Cone Mountain Village, but the lights in many small buildings have not been extinguished, and the sound of mahjong cards colliding can be heard from all directions, it seems that playing mahjong is indeed a kind of entertainment that the Chinese people like to see.

Shen Jinsan and Wu Xin, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, walked around the village to pretend to enjoy the scenery, they left the village unconsciously and ran towards the dirt slope in the distance.

Turning over the dirt slope, countless rectangular tombs of different sizes come into view, and you can also see many empty old houses, some of which have even collapsed in half, this location should be the original Cone Mountain Village, because there is no suitable place to demolish, after the discovery of the tomb group, the state simply built a new village on the periphery of the soil slope.

This is the alluvial plain of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the terrain is flat and the land is fertile, except for these large areas of ruins on the soil slope, there is no vegetation, and there are large areas of artificial forests around, and the towering Tianmu Mountain in the distance is also clear at a glance.

According to the white-bearded old man, the cat's eye cave was ten miles west of Coneshan Village, so the two took out their compasses and headed west.

There is no road here, it is full of tombs, which look like a huge waffle, and some of the tombs can still see human bones fused with loess, and the burial goods must have been cleaned up by archaeologists.

After about an hour, a forest suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, the forest was very big, except for the big trees, which were dense and barbaric shrubs, which made it difficult for people to get down, in order to avoid taking the wrong road, Shen Jinsan had to take Wu Xin directly into it, and did not look for a way around the forest.

After walking in the woods for a while, they found a dirt road that had been built there, and there were many low thorns growing on it, and it must have been a long time since anyone had entered the woods.

There is always a road is better than no road, at least pointed out the specific direction, along the dirt road continued to walk for more than half an hour, a tall fence blocked in front of the two, the white ash mottled on the top of the white ash mottled off a lot, you can also see the top of the wall around the coiled barbed wire, it is not the cat's eye hole in it.

After a long circle along the wall, they finally found a big locked iron door, which looked like a product of the sixties and seventies, and it had rusted into shape, and the two of them were also annoyed, if they had changed directions just now, they could see this door without walking a few steps.

After listening outside the door for a while, there was no abnormality in the wall, and there was a distance of about ten centimeters between the iron gate and the ground, Shen Jinsan looked inside, the cement floor was full of cracks, and a lot of weeds and vines grew out of the cracks, and there seemed to be a house standing in the southeast corner.

Shen Jinsan pushed the door hard, and a pile of rust and dust fell down, choking people couldn't open their eyes, and after a closer look, it turned out that the location of the door lock had been welded dead.

Wu Xin: "I don't think there are even ghosts here, let's kick the door!" ”

"I think so too, you come here!" Shen Jinsan took Wu Xin and retreated a few steps.

Then, the sound of Shen Jinsan kicking the door echoed in the forest, the hinge of the door frame had long been rotten, and it was kicked off in a few feet, and with a loud bang, the entire door frame was turned over into the courtyard with the iron gate.

The two crept in, and in addition to a small two-story building, there was a large pile of loess covered with plants like a hill, and several wheelbarrows made of wood were lying around.

The small building can be about thirty or forty meters long but not very wide, after looking for a long time, only the high glass windows on the first floor may be used for ventilation, and the gate can not be found.

An iron escalator rises from the ground and turns from the front of the house against the exterior wall to the second floor.

After a few steps up the escalator, you can peek through the glass window on the first floor, but the inside and outside of the glass window are covered with a thick layer of dust, and the two of them can't see the inside clearly when they take a flashlight.

The escalator screws loosened and the solder joints fell off, and they shook very badly when they walked, and they felt that they would soon fall apart, and after quickly boarding, Shen Jinsan kicked open the door of the second floor, and there was a cabinet standing against the wall inside, there were fully enclosed iron cabinets, and there were also wooden cabinets with glass doors, and they were all locked, and at the end were two iron shelves with some sundries, and a long table with a thick layer of ash in the middle of the room, and some stools around, everything looked so orderly.

After looking around, Shen Jinsan walked to the wooden cabinet to look, and accidentally saw a yellowed notebook without a cover with some words written in blue ink, including the words cat's eye hole marked in quotation marks, he tried to find clues, and said to Wu Xin: "This is the cat's eye hole!" ”

Wu Xin shone a flashlight, and she walked straight to the back of the room: "How do you know?" ”

Shen Jinsan: "There is a booklet in the cabinet that says that it looks like a research institute here, and there are still a lot of materials, do you want to get it out for research?" ”

"You should go down first to find out if there is an entrance to the palace, and you don't have the time to look through any information! Come here! Wu Xin stopped in the corner of the wall and looked into the depths of the stairs that led to the next floor.

The staircase was longer than expected, and after walking down, I realized that the staircase actually reached directly into the ground, which may have been added after the surface was excavated.

On the ground of the first floor, there are many high and low loess mounds, and there are some stone carvings thrown on top of them, and the pile of soil in the wall is estimated to have been dug out from here.

Shen Jinsan and Wu Xin did not continue to go underground along the stairs, but stepped into the first floor, wanting to see what was going on.

Shen Jinsan: "These stone carvings were dug up from the ground. ”

Wu Xin: "Why wasn't it originally on the ground?" ”

Shen Jinsan: "It's obvious! The stone carving is pressed on the mound, indicating that the soil dug first and the stone carving put later, it is not dug up, where else can it come from! ”

Take a closer look, the stone carvings are simple and rough, most of them are in the shape of pillars, some are engraved with bird and beast patterns, and some are typical Liangzhu cultural figures, and each stone carving is numbered and painted with Arabic numerals.

There are two large pillars leaning against the wall that attracted the attention of the two, the length of the pillar is more than three meters, the diameter is about one meter, the whole is carved into the shape of Yucong, and the side facing them is carved with a bas-relief slightly larger than that of an adult.

The relief looks like a human being, with three eyes on the head, a pair of wings on the back, the hands are spread out to make an encirclement, and the knees are on the ground, and the background is the mountains and rivers.

Wu Xin pointed to the relief and asked Shen Jinsan: "Is this the sun god?" ”

Shen Jinsan: "That's right! These two pillars should be quite ancient, and the time of production may be when the Liangzhu culture was just formed. ”

Wu Xin: "How do you see that?" ”

Shen Jinsan: "Because from the jade and stone tools of the sun god unearthed so far, there is no three-eyed sun god, so it reflects the early culture of Liangzhu, and later it may have been forgotten or for some other reason, so there is no longer a third eye." ”

Wu Xin: "Could it be that this is the entrance to the Sun God's Palace?" ”

Shen Jinsan: "That's not necessarily, many tombs of Liangzhu culture will be unearthed and related to the sun god, but the possibility of this entrance is still relatively large, these are very similar to decorative stone carvings placed at the door of some palaces or large buildings, generally small-scale tombs will not appear, unless the cat's eye cave is a large king-level tomb, this place is very weird, I have not seen any records about the cat's eye cave in any literature and archaeological records, as if it was deliberately erased." ”

Returning to the staircase and going deeper, it was dug into a straight square passage diagonally downward, the passage was very spacious, with pulleys on the top, and many logs neatly fixed on both sides of the staircase at the bottom, and there were traces of dirt and friction on the logs, most likely used to transport the stone carvings.

At the end of the passage, there is a larger, dug square space, with a distinctly different color from the earth on the ground and the surrounding earthen walls and the top, and at the end of the space is a large stone wall facing the passage, with an arch standing up to the sky in the middle, and two heavy wooden doors have been removed and leaned against each side of the arch.

The two walked towards the arch, and they could see that there were many symmetrical pits on both sides of the road, and there were small signs marked with numbers on the sides of the pits.

When I got closer, I found that the arch had been closed by a black nylon cloth, with a thick layer of glue on the side, Shen Jinsan probed with his hands, and found that the back of the nylon cloth might have been sealed with something else, thinking of the story told by the white-bearded old man, the two did not dare to break through the closure and rush in, so they had to discuss outside.

Wu Xin: "How is it now?" Can you go in and have a look? ”

Shen Jinsan: "That old man said that there had been a death here, and if we broke in without preparation, it would be a bit too risky." ”

Wu Xin: "Do you want to call the fat man and them over?" The problem is that it's impossible to determine whether this is the palace of the sun god or not, so what if you run for nothing? ”

Shen Jinsan went to see the wooden door, the surface of the wooden door was slightly carbonized, and it should have been inlaid with jade or something, but now these inlays have long been missing, leaving only grooves, and the stone wall is only a part of the whole wall.

Shen Jinsan thought for a moment and said, "You see that the color of the ground is different from other places, and this wall is only partially exposed, it should be said that it is a small part. ”

Wu Xin: "What does this mean?" Isn't digging the underground palace all this virtue? ”

Shen Jinsan: "You don't understand what I mean!" ”

Wu Xin: "I'll listen, you can say it!" ”

Shen Jinsan: "The ground was tamped and leveled and there were so many large stone carvings, the wall was built up with very flat large stones, and there were traces of inlay on the door, with the productivity of four or five thousand years ago, the stones of these walls alone had to be processed for many years, for the people at that time, it should be a large scale and very luxurious building, but in the end it was filled in, and the soil layer on the ground and the soil used for filling were also many years apart, otherwise there would not be such an obvious layering, and there were anti-mountain tombs on it, This shows that this building was buried thousands of years ago, and my previous judgment should not be wrong, this is the site of the early Liangzhu culture, not quite like a tomb. ”

Wu Xin: "You mean, this may be the palace of the sun god?" ”