Petru carried Mrs. Larry down the steps to the bottom of the altar.

It's about half the size of a playground and is filled with boulders of different shapes, like a stone processing factory.

As soon as Petru walked in, there was a sense of familiarity. These stones are peculiar, and in terms of color, shape, and texture of the rocks, they are very similar to the stones of Tabri on the island of Tubuai.

In fact, he had already discovered this above. He remembered that the indigenous people of the island of Tubuai had said that the tabh was the site of an ancestral temple, and that tabb meant taboo, a rule, and no one could break this rule or approach this taboo.

He had to take a gamble - these islands in the Pacific shared a common ancestor and faith, and this primitive tribe obeyed the rules of the tabs like the natives of Tubuai, and they would not enter the forbidden lands.

If it weren't for such thoughts, Petru would rather use a dagger to kill a bloody path than cocoon himself and put himself in a desperate situation. Once you guess wrong, in this rocky pit, there is really no way to enter the heavens and no way to the earth, and it can only become, as Mrs. Larry said, a place for them to be buried.

The steps and crevices above the altar were covered with moss, grass, and vines, but there was not a single grass in the space underneath. This is consistent with the characteristics of the other islands, with both Aoki and Su Huilan suspecting that the Tabu contains radioactive material underneath.

This gave Petrux some confidence. The only thing that made his heart beat was the distribution of spiritual power on this island. Judging from the situation on other islands, the tabp is the center of the spiritual force field, and the spiritual power is like an energy shield around the tab. The island is full of spiritual power, but it's obviously not centered around this altar, and if this is Tab, then what's going on with that hot spring lake that Petro found when he first came to the island?

As he searched for a suitable place to hide, he asked Mrs. Larry, "Madam, you said that you have seen wild people come to the altar to pray, do you know how they worship, will they come down here?" ”

"I don't know," said Mrs. Larry, "because I saw it from afar, when they were worshipping in front of the altar, but I did not see the whole ceremony, and I did not know that the altar was not a platform, but a pit." ”

"So with your vast experience in archaeology, what do you think this place is for?" Petru asked.

"I thought it was a place to worship the gods, but now it looks more like an unfinished project." Mrs. Larry said.

"Unfinished work?" Petru looked around and said, "Build a house?" If they built such a large stone house, it would be much better than their wooden houses, but they had the ability, so why not build a few smaller houses? Moreover, the walls of this house are too thick to even open a window. ”

Mrs. Larry said, "Dead people don't have to open windows. ”

Petru was taken aback: "You mean—this is a tomb?" ”

At this point, he found a pile of large rocks that looked like he could hide. He lowered Mrs. Larry down, and poked his head out to look, making sure that it was impossible to see the man hiding in the pile of stones from any angle above the altar.

Mrs. Larry sat on the ground, with her back to the cold stone, and said, "I'm just guessing that, judging by the shape, this may be an unfinished tomb." But the population of this primitive tribe is not large enough to support such a large project, unless they devote several generations, which is contrary to the progress of civilization. Primitive tribes like this are still on the verge of an existential crisis, and their first task is the reproduction and survival of the race, and it is impossible for them to build such flashy large tombs for the sake of the illusion of nothingness after death. ”

"So what do you mean, is it a tomb or not?" Petru was confused.

"I'm not sure. If so, it means that the race was once much larger than it is now. Mrs. Larry stroked the dark brown stones with her hand, "Have you noticed that these stones are special!" I have not seen this stone anywhere else on the island. ”

"I found out that there was no grass growing here," Petrux said. In fact, my partners and I have seen this stone on other islands. Madame, I don't know if you've ever heard of something called 'tab'? ”

"Tab?" Mrs. Larry pronounced the word several times, as if judging Petru's pronunciation, "Do you mean the remnants of the ancestors that have been found on some of the islands of the South Pacific?" ”

Petru nodded.

Mrs. Larry said, "I've heard that my ...... A friend...... He has done research on this area, and he is an expert on Mayan culture. He said that these things may be related to some ancient civilizations that have disappeared, but there is not enough evidence. Moreover, the 'tab' is not widely distributed, only found on a small part of the islands of Polynesia. So in the archaeological world, almost no one values these things. If it weren't for my ...... My friend, because of his study of the peripheral influence of the Mayan civilization, traveled all the way from intelligence all the way to the South Pacific, and he would not have noticed, let alone known. Are you trying to say, this is a tab? ”

"I'm not sure, but these stones do look a lot like the stones of the tabs I've seen, and all the tabs don't grow at all," Petru said. My friend said that it may be because these stones contain radioactive elements, so in indigenous legends, tabb is a forbidden place. ”

Mrs. Larry shook her head and said, "Oh, I haven't heard of that. ”

Petru also did not believe that the stone was radioactive, otherwise he would have lived in Tabri for so long, and something would have gone wrong a long time ago.

At this time, some voices came from overhead. Petru put his index finger to his lips and motioned for Mrs. Larry to silence.

He crept up the crack in the stone and looked up, and saw several wild men appear on the edge of the top of the altar, one of whom was the patriarch with the scepter.

The savage patriarch stood on top of the altar and glanced down, and Petru's body shivered. He hurriedly withdrew his gaze and hid himself, not daring to poke his head out to look again.

He and Mrs. Larry hid behind the rocks, listening nervously to the movement from above. At first, you could still hear the voices of several savages, but they were far away and couldn't hear what they were saying. After a while, there was no sound.

Petru guessed that the wild man was gone. He was glad he had made the right bet, this was a forbidden place, and the wild people would not come down. But he didn't dare to go out for the time being, who knows if they went far? Maybe just squat on it and wait for the rabbit!

The shadow of the boulder blocked the sunlight, and the wind blowing from above swirled among the rocks, making a whimpering sound, and it was cool to blow on people.

At this time, the two suddenly realized that everyone was naked. Petru felt a little embarrassed, and Mrs. Larry clamped her legs, wrapped her arms around her chest, and turned her face to the side.

The wind suddenly stopped, and so did the whining of the savages in the distance, and the world suddenly fell into infinite silence. There was only the sound of a heartbeat, as loud as someone beating a drum. Time became very slow, very slow, like a quartz clock that ran out of power, and the second hand could not climb no matter how much it climbed.

Petru suddenly heard a strange sound, hissing with an unpleasant fishy smell. A familiar sense of danger came over him, and he turned to look at Mrs. Larry, and saw a large black serpent, lying on the rock on her body, with its triangular head on its back, spitting red apricots. 8)