I don't know what Aunt Ming will do after receiving a call from Xiaodou and informing the second uncle of our discovery.

Until now, I didn't even know where my second uncle and the fat man's father and our organization were, what they were looking for, or what they were hiding. And now whether this discovery of mine will have an impact on the next actions of our Suzhang Alliance, this is no longer something I should worry about. What I need to worry about is the situation in front of us.

After Xiaodou left, Sister Ning asked everyone else to get ready. Then I was asked for my opinion and that of the fat man.

Although I have been studying archaeology, I have visited tombs and inspected ruins left over from ancient times. But those places were very small, and they were only study at that time. In an underground world of this scale like the one in front of me, I'm afraid that if we teach him, he will be a little confused and don't know where to start.

The fat man probably hasn't seen this kind of scene before, but after all, in the past ten years, he has more experience than anyone here who has been there. I heard the fat man say: "I have a few suggestions, first, no one can disperse any of our next actions. The legend of this "Inner Country" is more evil, and if something uncontrollable happens, we can minimize the casualties. ”

The fat man's rare speech has become positive, and I am still not used to it. Sister Ning also listened carefully to the fat man's suggestion and nodded.

The fat man continued: "Second, we need to leave some people at the bridge, and if there is any sign of something wrong in the city, we will immediately sound the signal flare, so that the people on the shore can react." Third, and most importantly, one! ”

The fat man said this, looked at all the people, and then said in a slightly higher voice: "When you enter the city, no matter what is in the city, all people are not allowed to touch anything without permission!" Because what is in the city is likely to cause us irreparable consequences! ”

Don't look at the fat man's usual speech, but when it comes to critical moments, when he needs to give ideas, he can often make the most correct suggestions or judgments.

From where we were to the nearest city gate, it was about a thousand meters, and the place where the Divine Furnace appeared was on the bridge that was no more than ten meters beyond the slope we had just descended.

According to the fat man's suggestion, Sister Ning left a few people on the bridge to wait for the pick-up, and the remaining dozen people, including me and the fat man Yiyi, as well as Xiao Qian, approached the city gate according to the position of the mouth.

Soon, we were outside the city gates. The silence of the whole city is incomparable, and the light of the headlamps is intertwined with the darkness, which makes all the mysteries of the city even more visible.

The fat man walked in front and stood side by side with Sister Ning, and I was on his right hand, and I saw him use a flashlight to tap the top of the city gate, and then said: "This city is a little weird, the opening of the city gate is not directly opposite the bridge we came down from, but just staggered the position of the bridge."

I opened it on the side! ”

This city gate is the gate that the scorpion entered after Ah San, and the fat man turned around and asked Sister Ning to signal the scorpion, but there was still no response.

After waiting for a while, there was still no response, so we all rushed through the door.

As soon as I entered the city gate, I felt a cool air hit me, and I couldn't help but shiver. Yiyi's voice came from beside me: "It's so cold in here...."

I looked back at her and handed her the warm patch that Xiaoqian had given me for her to hold in her hand.

"Damn, this place looks like it's got central air conditioning. Xiao Su, quickly find out where the air conditioning switch is, this temperature is a bit low! ”

I ignored the fat man's words and looked around. Everyone stopped and looked around as I did.

In front of us was a long street that stretched as far as the eye could see, about five meters wide, and it was a natural stone road, but it had been manually chiseled. On both sides are a number of wooden buildings, many of which have collapsed, as if they have been washed away by mudslides. Almost one by one, from the perspective of some houses that have not collapsed, they are two-story wooden buildings.

I don't know how this underground cave was formed, but the visual impact here is like the towns we passed through along the way from Altay to Lop Nur moved underground. I think it's not surprising that living here, the dark and damp environment around you must be full of poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and all the houses are two-story buildings!

The fat man shouted at the city: "I say, friend! Come and hey! His intonation is based on the pronunciation of Xinjiang people, and with his gong-like voice, it sounds a little nondescript.

I looked at the buildings around me and was a little surprised that the structure of these buildings was somewhat similar to many Han Dynasty ruins. Lop Nur was part of the Western Regions thousands of years ago. The people who live here, the recorded races of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, are all of Indian and Pakistani races, and of course, some are ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. We usually call them "Cypriots", and the language used is called "Cypriot", which, as the name suggests, is the language spoken by people outside the Cypriots.

In this way, the buildings here cannot be similar to the Han Dynasty buildings in the Central Plains, but should be similar to those exotic buildings in the ruins of the Western Regions in our impression.

I finished this opinion with everyone, and everyone felt that something was not normal.

The fat man put forward his opinion: "Xiao Su, do you say that this is possible." When supervising the construction of this "geocentric" city, the person in charge of the design either stole the fine architectural traditions of our Han Dynasty. Either! They are the Han people who came to the Western Regions from the Central Plains! ”

I agree with the fat man's point of view. All the buildings here, including the moat outside the city and the construction of the city walls, have the shadow of our Han Dynasty architecture. want

Is it that there are masters in this legendary "geocentric country" who have learned the essence of our Han Dynasty architecture, or, as analyzed by the fat man, there are Han people from the Central Plains who participated in the construction of this city!

After Yiyi took the warm sticker I gave her, she was no longer so trembling in her hand, and from time to time she also pasted the warm sticker on my arm, wanting to help me warm up. In fact, after we entered the city for a while, we no longer had the cold feeling we had when we first entered, as if our arrival had brought yang energy to the place!

Sister Ning's team, all the people who came in did not touch anything in a proper manner, but just concentrated on the street, vigilantly scanning the surroundings, waiting for further instructions.

After the fat man entered the city gate, he was quickly attracted by a large black jar that appeared in the collapsed wooden house next to him. Called Zhang Xiuxiu, the two of them were researching, and exchanged research results from time to time, but out of caution, they never opened the seal of the jar.

I didn't have the occupational disease of a fat man who was attracted to the ceramic jar when he saw it, so I took out a strong flashlight and shone it on the wooden houses around me. Many wedges can be seen from the broken wood, and there are countless connections in the wood that have not yet been separated, and the connection of the whole house can be seen, which is simply done by relying on the inlays between the woods and the binding of the wedges.

This discovery once again made me impressed by the architectural wisdom of the ancients, who built houses in ancient times without professional instruments to measure, evaluate and design. They carried out the construction entirely through the master craftsmen, according to the drawings of the pre-drawn style Lei. It is a process of creation, a philosophical question of starting something from nothing.

But many buildings have been able to stand for a long time, even surpassing the quality of modern houses. This has to be convincing.

A few meters behind me was the walls of the city. The walls should be built from local materials, and the material of the stones is the same as the stone path of the street under our feet. The black color, with some special adhesive material smeared in the middle, looks very strong, but in fact, such a large stone is not easy to fall down even if it is simply piled up.

I shifted the flashlight from one wall to the other to see if the material on both walls was the same. With such a huge number of stones, there must be a natural stone quarry somewhere in this cave space.

When I removed the flashlight, the beam of the flashlight suddenly hit the center of the city gate. I vaguely saw the middle of the city gate, engraved with two big characters! At first, I thought it was my own dazzle, and the lettering on the gates of the city gates is usually outside the city gates, so how can there be lettering inside the city gates.

But when I tried to make sure that I was in the middle of the gate again, I was a little speechless. I saw that under the light of my flashlight, on the city gate I was directly opposed, there were two words written impressively-Dumen!

I don't know what these two words mean, but this abnormal lintel makes me think that things are not so simple.

I hurriedly shouted at the fat man, "Fat man, come here, there is a new discovery!" ”

The fat man and Zhang Xiuxiu were studying the big jar, and when they heard my shout, they crawled out of the rubble and asked me, "What is the matter to trouble my old Zhang, who is about to drink with Xiuxiu!" ”

As he spoke, he came to my side, and when he saw the word Dumen under the beam of my flashlight, his voice stopped abruptly!

At this time, Sister Ning and Yiyi also came around, and after the fat man was gone, Zhang Xiuxiu also walked out of the ruins and stood with us and looked up at the two big characters on the door. These two big characters were written in the affiliation of the Han Dynasty, and after so many years, there are still some red lacquer imprints! These two belong to the big characters, which also fully proves the fat man's previous speculation! This city was built with the help of the masters of the Han Dynasty!

I looked at the fat man and asked him what those two words meant.

The fat man touched his chin, turned his head to me and said, "Xiao Su, have you heard of Bamen Dunjia?" ”

(End of chapter)