Chapter Forty-Eight: The Governor's Palace
After walking in this cold and mysterious underground passage for about ten minutes, and the height was reduced by about a few tens of meters due to the downward movement, everyone finally walked out of the passage and came to a spacious space where several statues were standing.
These statues are not the same as those statues in the Tongwang Cave before, but some statues of different styles and shapes, these statues are obviously the terrifying images of the devil, impermanence, Shura, Yaksha and other horrors in ancient Chinese mythology, hideous, terrifying, evil and gloomy, with a kind of coercion and confusing fear that penetrates deep into the bone marrow, deeply implanted in the hearts of the people who are here, making people feel helpless at the same time, giving birth to awe, cowardice, and obedience.
These statues are tall, heavy, and more than ten meters high, and there is naturally an invisible sense of oppression, so that small human beings do not even dare to look up in front of such statues, and because of this dark hellish environment, the gloomy and terrifying feeling is like a shadow, which can not help but make people feel afraid and tremble.
The statue has gone through thousands of years, although the stone material is not easy to decay, but it is also a little mottled, it is covered with traces of black moss and death, and for a long time in this underground confined space, the air is not circulating, and the natural smell of mildew and decay is serious, and the statue is covered with dust, mold and cobwebs, which shows that it has experienced too long of silence here.
Everyone watched cautiously at the entrance of this passage for a long time, using the flashlight pillar to sweep up and down, left and right, and finally determined that this very spacious and huge space, but also a relatively closed environment, the way was the gradually sinking staircase passage, the way was through the huge eerie statues in front of them, through the staircase that slowly rose upward.
After determining the specific situation, everyone cautiously marched forward, enduring extreme discomfort, neither daring to be too fast nor too slow, everyone subconsciously gathered together, and cautiously walked forward while shining on the front and surroundings with full vigilance.
Fear and uneasiness haunted everyone's hearts all the time, and a cloud of fear accumulated in everyone's hearts, making everyone so nervous that they did not dare to breathe loudly.
As he approached these statues, Bai Yunfei felt that these tall statues were looking down on him from above, with a grim expression, and the direction of his eyes seemed to move with his movements.
Is it a ghost alive, or is it an illusion when you are afraid? Or is there something else to these statues?
Bai Yunfei and everyone clenched the submachine gun in their hands, held their breath, slowed their steps, and moved slowly.
In the tall and empty space like a huge hall, only the voice of Su Lao Ghost using his Luoyang shovel to explore the way in front of him sounded: "Bell, bell, bell..."
In the process of walking between these strange and hideous statues, everyone is extremely cautious, for fear of touching the mechanism or waking these demons, if this is the case, no matter how advanced the weapon in your hand is, no matter how amazing the lethality is, it will be useless.
Finally, he gradually passed through these hideous statues and came to the staircase that slowly ascended upward.
In front of these huge eerie statues are large reliefs that slope upwards from the ground
This group of reliefs is carved on both sides of the staircase that slopes upward, the relief painting is exquisite, the lines are smooth and stretched, and the shape is simple and heavy, but the content is all about the abyss of hell and the eerie and fearful description of the Ten Halls of Yama Ghost Mansion, which makes people inevitably have a frightened psychological mood when they look at it.
Although these reliefs are stone carvings, they perfectly reflect the legends and situations of the Yama Hell.
I saw the hell depicted in the relief, trying to reveal the terrifying scene, full of endless gloomy atmosphere, in the bloody sun, it was a miserable world of blood-colored Shura and demons, a mortal body, hung on the stake of purgatory, hanging in front of the demon castle, and suffered all kinds of tragic states of capital punishment before death, and it is still maintained.
Tall, hideous evil golems stand majestically, in this world of thousands of abysses, scorched earth, ruins, no grass, only lonely souls with nowhere to return.
The lava hell is like a vast sea of fire, and the demon castles and evil golems are like islands and reefs, rising and falling in the magma world.
The churning magma poured down, flowing into a deeper, darker abyss, and in the endless abyss, the blood light rushed to the sky, the endless blood-colored mist swirled, the gusts of bloody wind were disgusting, the scarlet blood water gathered into a river, and the broken limbs, internal organs, hands and feet, and skulls were everywhere.
The continuous array of Earth Demon Castles is unusually similar in shape to the Demon Land Head. Standing in this gloomy purgatory, endless bones stained with scarlet blood floated in chaos, countless huge mountains of dry bones piled up, towering, rolling rivers of blood whistling under statues, castles, and mountains of bones.
Hell was shaking violently, and the earth-shattering devil howl continued to come out in the deeper underground abyss, accompanied by the magic sound, and bursts of earth-shattering loud noises suddenly erupted like thunder.
The blood in the hell is surging to the sky, the smell of blood is fragrant, the blood is constantly gushing, the purgatory and the abyss are shaking violently, as if they are about to surge, the gloomy evil aura fills the vast hell, and the decay and erosion soaked in the bone marrow cannot be stopped.
All the scenery of the entire Yama Hell and the Endless Abyss was shrouded in a heavy blood, and because of the magma rushing and surging of purgatory, the entire hell world was like red-hot molten iron, revealing a red brilliance, and all the huge dark stone mountains and ravines and valleys were scorching and boiling, and they were all glittering with terrifying blood.
These reliefs are so striking, so striking, that they are unforgettable and terrifying.
The crowd walked through the reliefs in horror, climbed the stairs, and after passing a long staged platform, a white light overflowed above the end of the stairs in front of them.
Everyone continued to climb up the stairs, and soon they reached the end of the stairs, and the white light became brighter.
Through the white light emanating from this huge space, nine huge stone pillars appeared in front of them, arranged in an arc, and the position at the end of the stairs where everyone stood was the top of the arc
Each stone pillar is unusually thick, as thick as a few people hugging each other, and it is also full of reliefs depicting lava hell and the abyss of Hades.
Above these nine massive stone pillars is the dome of this wide space, which is connected to the upper end of the nine huge stone pillars, and the position between the dome and the stone pillars is an arc-shaped stone wall similar to the shape of an eaves.
When everyone uses a flashlight to irradiate back and forth to observe, they find that the skirt wall of this dome is engraved with vigorous and clumsy big characters, vicissitudes, simple, heavy, just look at these words, it gives people a sense of heavy coercion, and then observe carefully, only to see that the words on it are engraved with a few big characters of "Governor Palace".
Although these big characters exude a sense of coercion, which makes people prohibitive, but time is an invisible butcher's knife, which consumes the power of everything, just to see the plaque of those big characters, covered with dust and hanging cobwebs, it makes people not only sigh the ruthlessness of the years.
The white light, although not particularly dazzling and dazzling, could also illuminate the so-called "Governor's Palace", so everyone hurriedly extinguished the torches for continued use in the future.
Why in this dark underworld? The question of having a white light illuminating the entire "Governor's Palace" was very surprising and incomprehensible.
Could it be that there is also a swarm of fireflies similar to the "Waitomo" hanging upside down in the underground palace in the Western Regions? But when everyone looked at it in detail, they didn't even find the shadow of a firefly.
We carefully look for the light source, and find that in these stone pillars and the ground, the dome and other places, there are actually fluorescent stones of various shapes and colors, these fluorescent stones that can shine are as small as grapes, as big as eggs, and the colorful light emits from these fluorescent stones, reflecting each other, reflecting this "Governor's Palace" in a strange light.
I only heard Su Lao Ghost screaming: "I'll be a good girl!" There are so many night pearls, it seems that we have come to the right tomb, these things are priceless treasures. ”
"Pearl of the Night?" Everyone was a little confused by Su Laogui's words, could it be that these glowing fluorescent stones are the so-called "Night Pearls"?
"Yes." Although Lu Wuyang was injured just now, he seemed a little listless and absent-minded, but when he saw these luminous stones, these things called "Night Pearl" in folklore, this guy who loves research, his eyes emitted a brighter light than the Night Pearl.
"Oh? Do you still understand this? Bai Yunfei asked in some surprise.
"Of course," Lu Wuyang's neck stiffened, obviously dissatisfied with Captain Bai's suspicion: "If you want to be a skilled craftsman, you don't even know what material you are studying, that's a crime!" ”
Then I listened to Lu Wuyang excitedly explain the relevant knowledge of the night pearl to everyone.
Fluorescent, also known as "Night Pearl", is an ordinary ore called "glowstone", it is a not rare ore raw material, its main chemical component is calcium difluoride, which is one of the chemical raw materials that can produce hydrofluoric acid.
Because of the luminous
Beads are crystals, so it is actually difficult to achieve the desired shape through processing, but the processing cost is not very large.
The classification of fluorescent stone mainly includes fluorite and calcite, and some diamonds also fall under the category of fluorescent, among which fluorite is the most common.
So, why does fluorescent stone glow? This is something that everyone generally wants to know.
According to Lu Wuyang, from the perspective of physics, the luminescence principle of fluorescent stone is:
These stones with phosphorescent substances will absorb external energy after being exposed to sunlight, and then release these energies in the dark to form a silvery-white or other color brilliance, but mainly silvery-white, and the specific color is mainly closely related to the properties of trace impurities in mineral crystals.
But in this thousands of years of darkness, why can it still emit light, even if it has been exposed to sunlight before, absorbing sunlight energy, but after being sent to this dark underground world, according to normal circumstances, they should gradually release energy outward, that is, visible to the naked eye, but over time, these lights will gradually weaken with the overflow of energy, until it is completely dim, but after thousands of years, the entire "Dudu Palace" decorated with fluorescent stones is still brightly lit and fluorescent. It's a mystery for the ages.
"Is the Night Pearl really worth a fortune?" Li Yulan was full of curiosity, and her big beautiful eyes shone like fluorescent stones.
Perhaps, for any woman, these gemstones, diamonds, and glowing stones will always be their favorite.
And as a woman, Li Yulan is no exception.
(End of chapter)