Chapter 10: Millennial Ghee
"Make a way out!" Xiao Ying met our gaze and spoke firmly.
I looked at her somewhat weak body, and then at the hard stone wall, and although I had no doubt in my heart that she had the power to shake it, it was full of disobedience. Although the strength is infinite, it can easily twist the iron branch with the thickness of the finger, but after all, it is flesh and blood, and whether the strength is enough is one thing, and whether the body can withstand this kind of impact is another.
"Will it work?" I asked.
Ego nodded, lowering his head and putting on a tactical glove with a metal finger helmet. "If you can't get out, you'll die!"
Xiao Kan may have heard something and grabbed my arm, "I will die with Si'an!" ”
Ying glanced at her coldly, twisted his body and punched towards the stone wall!
This punch is perfect in terms of both the transmission of power and the smoothness of the movements, and when I saw the rapid swing of the punch, I even made up the sonic boom in my own brain.
There was a loud bang, and countless cracks appeared on the stone wall! The second punch followed, the stone was knocked out, and a hole the size of a large basin appeared in front of us.
Everyone didn't expect that E's fist would have such great power, and they were dumbfounded.
I was the first to react and quickly leaned down on the hole and looked inside. It turned out that this layer of stone wall was made of pieces of broken stone, but over time, the joints gradually adhered so that it could not be seen.
That's a good explanation, and it's relatively acceptable to punch a hole in the wall.
The inside of the cave was very cold, and the stench rushed out again, even stronger than the outside!
"It stinks too!" I said.
"Damn, isn't this looking for trouble for yourself?" Liu Dongxi muttered.
"What are you looking for?" I asked.
"This smell must be related to the green bees, you see that you have a smell on your body, the green bees in your pocket drove us into the hole, and the smell in the hole was even greater, so we drove us here, so it was easy to lose the taste......" Liu stuff stopped talking and stretched out his hand to compare the hole.
"Okay, I see, I'll take a look first!" I said a word to Liu Shi, nodded my hand and pinned it to my hat and climbed into the hole.
Yi also followed, and Liu Dongxi shouted at me at the entrance of the cave, "Be careful, don't go too far!" I'm not going to go! ”
I knew that the people over there needed him, and of course I didn't care about anything, so I said yes and turned to leave.
There should be a lot of space in it, and I can feel the slightest movement of air. But there is not much space in front of you, and not far away is a stone wall, which is also made of rubble.
Een and I walked forward on the gravel under our feet, which was not too flat, and passed through countless simple doorways that were at most one and a half meters long. At first, I was careful to watch out for any ambushes, but after some careful testing, I found that there was not a single living creature in it, and everything was clean, like an empty dwelling.
All the spaces are neatly rectangular, each about a dozen square meters in size. There is no trace of any human activity here, and there is no clue of age, but the doorway is not an arch made of rubble, but a stone beam bears the weight of it, like a modern building.
For E, everything in this world is taken for granted, and naturally there is nothing wrong with it, and in my opinion, none of the things here are normal.
Needless to say, it's not a modern underground fortification, who has to build a house in a hole to live, even if it is built, how can you live without a roof?
Passing through several houses one after another, I didn't find much danger, except for the strong stench that still lingered around them.
"Let's go back!" I don't think it's interesting to go any further, this place is strange, but it's just a broken village, and there is no danger. Since there is a lot of air here, there will definitely be an exit, just go back and ask them to go together!
When I came out of a broken hole, I saw that they had all crawled over, and Liu Dongxi crawled on the hole with half of his body, and hurriedly went up to help him.
"What's the situation?" Liu Dongxi asked first, while beckoning this person to plug the hole quickly.
"It's nothing, it's a long way forward, it's the same here." I helped out on the sidelines, "Can't stand it?" ”
"I can't stand it, I don't know what else is in the cave over there, the power is quite strong, I can't stand it at all!"
"Something else?" I asked.
"I don't know, it's probably a lot bigger than the green bee." Liu Dongxi slapped the last stone and smashed it twice.
"Keep walking and see if there's a way to get out!" Liu Dongxi saw that the entrance to the cave was firmly blocked, and opened his mouth to speak.
Of course, he didn't need to say it, and the group of us hunched over through the doorway, walking towards the depths of the space that had been divided into countless grids.
The layers of portals here are like a labyrinth, and you can't see this kind of architectural structure anywhere in the world. As for the small gate, it almost makes people think that they have traveled to the country of dwarves.
Soon this kind of forward makes people lose their freshness, and it is just a mechanical bend and enter the door......
After walking for about two hours, I felt like I had passed through a thousand gates, and only then did an open space appear in front of me.
It's been a long time since I've seen such a flat ground! The open space in front of you is hundreds of meters wide and flat towards a mirror, like a beach that has just overflowed, and you can't help but want to walk up.
Liu Dongxi obviously had this kind of thought, and walked up in two steps, but stopped immediately!
I shone a flashlight at him and saw that something was wrong when he stopped.
On the unusually smooth ground, Liu Dongxi's feet sank a little, and the ground around him actually appeared to solidify ripples, and an even thicker stench spread.
Liu Shi slowly retreated, rubbing the asphalt-like things on his shoes on the ground, he himself didn't like to stink, but he couldn't stink us.
I squatted next to me and covered my nose to see, Liu Shidong stepped on the footprints deeper than the other, and I could see that this should be a pit, and the pit was filled with this viscous foul-smelling liquid. It's just a thick layer of dust on top that makes it look like the ground.
"Don't you stink!" I saw Xiao Kan and Da Ke stretch out their feet on the side and shout. There's not necessarily any mystery in this thing, and I don't want anyone to fall for it.
The black paste that Liu stuff rubbed against the gravel glistened under the flashlight, and I covered my nose and leaned over to grab a stone and pull it a few times.
"What is this?" I noticed that there were some wrapped white filaments in this shoe-polish-like thing, and I looked up and asked Liu.
"Hell knows what this thing is!" Liu Shi's expression seemed to be eager to throw away his shoes, exaggerated to death.
Since he was a child, he has been hanging out with his elders in various ancient tombs, and I once heard him say that he soaked in waist-deep corpse water and fished things out. This kind of life, I guess I've seen all the disgusting things, how can this be disgusting like this?
"Then leave it alone!" I patted him and shone it with a flashlight, "I see there's a road over there, let's walk around!" ”
Sure enough, on our right-hand side, a gravel-paved path was hidden in a rocky field, and it was impossible to see without paying attention, and it was only from a distance that we could distinguish it.
There seemed to be only one way through this stinky lake, and we proceeded cautiously, and at my request, everyone tried to stay away from the lake.
Lu Yan walked at the end as usual, and I walked beside him.
"Lu Yan, what is this, you should know it, right?"
"If I could know everything in this world, would I still be human?" Lu Yan and I talk relatively normally when we are alone.
"Do you think you're quite human?" I muttered.
Lu Yan looked at me with a smile, "I haven't been exposed to this taste, but it's very familiar, there seems to be ghee in it, and there is ......."
"Ghee?" I asked rhetorically, it's true that the ghee doesn't smell good, but it's not to this extent, is Lu Yan teasing me?
"Nice, ghee smell. I've seen ghee that has been around for hundreds of years, and it tastes like it does now. ”
"Ghee lasts for hundreds of years?" I don't think it's very credible, this kind of organic matter should be turned into soil after a few years, not to mention liquid ghee, don't they evaporate?
"Treated, there is a kind of thing called Mingzu in it, in the current term, it is a kind of bacteria, I have not studied the specific situation, anyway, it can make the ghee survive for a long time through the activity of bacteria and can ensure the fat content in it. Because the final use of this ghee is to make everlasting lamps. Lu Yan explained.
"It's all ghee with bright feet?" I asked.
"I don't know, if it is, I'm afraid it's been two or three thousand years!" Lu Yan said, and pointed.
I think it's very likely that what Lu Yan said is that I have seen the bacteria in the milk after it is spoiled, one by one, like millet, and the kind of filaments that are wound into clumps are very likely to be the mycelium formed over time.
What is the use of so much ghee here? I carefully swept around the lake with my flashlight and found nothing that could be used as a wick. However, according to what Lu Yan said, if it has been two or three thousand years for so long, it is normal to not be able to find the wick, after all, Mingzu only cares about the lamp oil and does not care about the wick.
I've been here for so long, and I'm getting used to the smell. But it may have been a bit above the threshold I could tolerate, and it didn't go away with acclimatization, it just wasn't as pungent.
I covered my nose with one hand, and suddenly remembered what Lu Yan said besides the smell of ghee, so I asked.
Lu Yan thought for a while, then turned around and said, "There is also a smell of bird droppings!" ”
Guano! As soon as I heard this, I suddenly became excited, since this guano has a smell, it must be fresh, and if there is fresh guano, there must be birds. There must be a way out here, and it's not far away!