Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 64: The City of Glimmers
I walked to the fat man's side, and looked at the flashlight from the fat man's point of view, and it was really as the fat man said, it was really vague and vague like the architecture of the ancient city.
Although there is a mica layer in the way, but it can still be seen that under the deep pit that is almost dozens of meters deep from our feet, there is an old city in the shape of a "T", the ancient city is all stone buildings, the scale is huge, like a palace piled up with blocks, this palace is not exactly what I saw in the mica layer before?
There are a lot of crystals above the ancient city that are shining, from my point of view, it is not difficult to distinguish that the shining crystals are ores, most of them are corundum with broken shells, corundum is shining under the flashlight of our mica layer, like a bright star, the light of each corundum refracts each other, and shines on the ancient city, so that the "T" shaped underground ancient city looks like a city of shimmering.
Through the light refracted by corundum on the T-shaped ancient city, and the position where I am looking down, the whole palace is in full view, although I can't see every detail in a particularly fine way, but I can probably see that there are a total of eighteen small halls around this square palace, and there are dense small halls built around the eighteen small halls, and there are no less than three hundred small buildings like the temple, and there are no less than a thousand towers like the tower burials we saw before.
After taking a closer look, the fat man next to me was surprised and said, "I'm a mother, this is the fucking Dome Silver City." The fat man's voice also attracted Shanzi, and Shanzi was dumbfounded when he saw the palace under the mica layer, and there was a breathtaking and shocking look in his eyes.
Seeing that Shanzi and the fat man were obviously excited, I couldn't help but ask, "Why do you see the Silver City of the Dome?" ”
When the fat man heard my question, he used the wolf's eye pillar in his hand to wander around the ancient city, and explained, "You see that the foundation of this ancient city is mostly golden, and the four walls are silver, and there is that gate, do you see?" The fat man deliberately lingered on the door for a while, shook it, and then continued, "It is not difficult to see that the material of the door is iron, and it is already rusty. ”
The fat man became more and more excited when he said this, rubbed his fingers under his nose twice, patted me on the shoulder, pointed his finger at the end of the wolf's eye pillar in his hand and said, "Ngawang, look at the conch-shaped decoration on the door, and the four corners are all agate, which are the characteristics of the vault silver city." ”
As soon as I heard the fat man say this, I took a serious look twice, and saw that the ancient city was quietly located there, as if it was hiding countless secrets that no one knew, and this secret might be a hundred, a thousand, or a longer secret.
"Why is there a vault silver city underground? Or should it be said that why did the ancient elephant male build such a huge vault silver city underground? The fat man casually mentioned it with a discussion with Shanzi.
Shanzi looked at the glimmer dome silver city under the mica layer, thought for a while, and said, "I estimate that this eighty percent is the tomb of the king of the ancient Zhangxiong Dynasty in the past, according to legend, the ancient Zhangxiong kings thousands of years ago were all high monks of Bon Buddhism, and their status was extremely high, and the mausoleums after their death were built particularly luxuriously, which is also the ancient Xiangxiong people's admiration for the king." ”
After hearing this, the fat man repeatedly said "yes" to agree with Shanzi's analysis, and his eyes immediately lit up, just like a foodie meeting a delicacy staring at the vault silver city under the mica layer.
I have to say that I can't suppress the excitement in my heart because of my super curiosity, and not only am I slightly excited, everyone present is obviously excited, in addition to being driven by curiosity, it is more because my intuition tells me that this vault silver city must have a relationship with the netherworld monuments, as long as I find out the connection, the smoke and rain maze that haunts me will have traces to follow.
It's just that Lan Xin, Xiao Jing and the swallow girl can clearly feel their uneasiness under the excitement.
After discovering this shimmering city, I walked to the position of the slope facing Lao Jin just fell, and then turned around, and shone the position of the slope in front of me with a wolf's eye flashlight, and found that the end of the strong light of the wolf's eye 100-meter range was the mica layer we had fallen earlier, and then I found that the original broken mica layer had a certain inclination, and the slope happened to be facing the mica layer standing behind me.
Suddenly, I suddenly realized why we had been walking around directly under the falling mica layer for a long time and had not found the palace that had disappeared out of thin air.
It turned out that the palace I had seen earlier was not directly under our feet, but the current T-shaped city of shimmering light, but it was through the principle of refraction of this mica layer that I mistakenly thought it was under our feet.
The fat man and Lao Jin had already begun to study how to enter the city of shimmering light, which seemed to be close at hand but was actually far away from the world, and none of them dared to go down the mica layer under the slope, so they had to look around at the edge of the slope, and scratched their ears and cheeks in a hurry, it seemed that they wanted to break through the mica layer to enter, but this did not work.
There are two reasons why it doesn't work, one of them, the erection of the mica layer is directly connected to the top of our heads, and the top of the head is also endless, and the crystal clear mica layer, take a look at the flashlight, the mica layer on the top is as thin as an ice mirror, layer after layer, and layer by layer, as long as one breaks, it will cause inertia rupture, then then all the mica layer will be smashed down The consequences can be imagined, it must be a heavy death and injury, you must know that an insignificant object from a height of tens of meters is enough to kill people, Not to mention this large mica layer.
Since ancient times, tomb robbery can be called one of the oldest human occupations, since before Cao Cao, this profession has been accompanied by human history, so the design of various anti-robbery tombs has also developed, the ancients anti-tomb methods can be described as countless, the most known is to count quicksand and stone anti-theft, as well as boulders to block the door and a variety of toxic traps.
Shanzi has just analyzed that the mica layer we see now is actually an anti-theft mechanism, which is designed based on the natural environment of the ancient earth of Mount Everest, as long as this mica layer is broken, then we will be buried under the broken mica smashed by this mess.
The second thing that doesn't work is that even if we can successfully break through this mica layer, then we can't go down to this pit dozens of meters deep, this time it's not like the ancient tomb on the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, there are naturally cracked cracks to walk, so if we want to enter this city of shimmering light, we have to find another entrance.
But the problem is that even after several rounds of searching back and forth, we have not found the entrance to the city of Glimmer in this mica layer, which can really kill me and the fat man.
In all kinds of anxiety, I unintentionally found that when everyone was carefully looking around for any missed corners, only Shanzi was alone looking blankly at the direction where we had just escaped from the Devil's Ginseng Devil's Mouth, and his face was obviously very heavy, his brows were tightly locked, and his eyes seemed to see something unusually terrifying, but there was nothing in front of him, where did Shanzi's fear come from?
"Shanzi! What happened to you? I couldn't help but be curious, so I asked.
Shanzi let out a long sigh, and I could feel that this breath contained a lot of emotions in it, because Shanzi sighed very heavily, and then called everyone over, "You don't have to look for it, I know where the entrance is." ”
"Where?" The fat man and the old gold have a tone of impatience.
"Did you know that Oni Ginseng is known as a tomb keeper in the eyes of tomb robbers? As far as I know, some ancient tombs before the Qin Dynasty would plant ghost ginseng at the important entrance of the tomb in order to prevent theft of tombs, and then feed them with a large number of livestock, and feed the servants and slaves who built the mausoleum. After Shanzi finished speaking, he looked at everyone.
As Shanzi said, the answer is already clear, and the entrance is in the ghost ginseng that has just come to die like hell.
This is a big trouble, the four rock-like leaves on the top of the ghost ginseng can be said to be invulnerable, and those poisonous roots are also chilling, if you want to enter this vault silver city from it, it is simply difficult to go to the blue sky, it seems to be difficult to walk on thin ice.
But then again, whether we find the entrance to this shimmering city or not, we must also pass through the checkpoint guarded by the ghost ginseng, because we are now at a dead end, and if we want to leave this ghost place, we must return the same way, so Shanzi suggested that me, the fat man, and himself should return to explore the situation first.
I think this plan is feasible, anyway, no one has a better way now, it is better to take risks, maybe there will be hope, after all, everything has weaknesses, go back and observe again, see if the ghost ginseng has other weaknesses in addition to being afraid of strong light?
I stopped not far from the swamp with the fat man and Shanzi, and then lurked at the mouth of the pit and secretly glanced at the direction of the ghost ginseng just now, I was the first, when I looked at it, there was only a piece of black pressing, and I didn't see any ghosts, strange! Where did that ghost ginseng run away just now? I shone it with a wolf's eye flashlight, but it didn't, but I found a hole.
"Shanzi, is the ghost meeting displaced?" I was puzzled, and turned back to ask Shanzi behind me.
"What do you mean?" Shanzi looked dazed.
"See for yourself." I shifted to the side for Shanzi to see.
"Strange! Why is the ghost ginseng missing? Shanzi stepped forward to take a look, and he was also surprised, looking at me and the fat man like a confused second monk.
"Get out of the way! I'll take a look" The fat man pushed me and Shanzi away one by one in front of him, stepped forward and poked the probe, squinted, flashed a wolf-eyed flashlight, looked at it, and then said, "Isn't this just right, and it will save us trouble." As he spoke, the fat man prepared to go up and inspect it.
"Chubby, don't panic, I'm afraid there will be fraud, let's find out the situation first." Shanzi grabbed the fat man in time and asked me to throw two of them with cold fireworks to find out the situation.
I took out the cold fireworks from my backpack and said to the fat man, "Dead fatty, I have said how many times have you been, don't be so anxious, I will kill you sooner or later." ”
After playing the cold fireworks, I threw them together, and the cold light of the cold fireworks drew two arcs in the darkness, illuminating the entire pit and ditch that was swallowed by the darkness, and through the cold fireworks, we determined that the ghost ginseng had really disappeared, and there was only a cave like a demon's mouth standing gloomily there.
"Fatty! Go and call everyone over. "I told the fat man to go back and call the people.
The fat man was not happy, and retorted, "Fuck off, why should I go." ”
"Because I'm your second brother." I glanced over with a "what else do you have to say" look.
The fat man opened his mouth, stopped talking, and left a sentence of "Good!" You two, I'll go. Then he reluctantly went back.
After the fat man left, Shanzi and I went to the entrance of the cave to find out the situation first.
It's really strange to say, the ghost ginseng that was still fighting with us just now disappeared out of thin air, and Shanzi and I were afraid of fraud, so we checked the location of the ghost ginseng just now before everyone came, only to see the sludge on the ground splashed everywhere, and there was a little root left in the mud, according to the situation at the scene, the ghost ginseng should have been pulled up by the roots.
This made me uneasy, what could it do to root up the man-eating ghost ginseng? Presumably it's not a fuel-efficient lamp.
Soon, everyone arrived, and they all hesitated at the entrance of the cave where the wind gusted and the darkness was bottomless, and no one dared to go in first, because in addition to the danger that Shanzi and I analyzed made everyone uneasy, there was also Uncle Jiu's solemn expression as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, and he said seriously, "This cave has been full of yin and underworld for many years, and it is really demonic, I am afraid that there are some monsters in the cave." ”
After everyone hesitated for nearly a minute, Lao Jin spoke, "I grass, fuck, birds die for money because of eating the dead, let's die." Stay here by yourselves, Lao Tzu has gone in and touched the gold. As he spoke, he took out his dagger and put on a flashlight, and entered the cave alone.
Sometimes I really admire Lao Jin's courage to sacrifice his life for money, it seems that in his worldview, money is omnipotent, and it is not just that money can make ghosts grind, but that money can make ghosts perverted.
Immediately afterwards, Shanzi followed, and then everyone entered the cave one by one like puppets being pulled together.
In addition to the yin tide, there is a particularly strange and pungent smell in the cave, which is an indescribable smell in the acid, as if something is rotten to a little extent, and it smells particularly unpleasant.
Because this cave is ventilated, so although there is a smell, but it can still hold on, the fat man on the road quietly asked in my ear, "Ah Wang, don't you think Shanzi is really fucking simple, it seems to know everything, even the ancient Xiangxiong, which very few people know, knows everything like the palm of his hand." ”
"That's true, I doubt he's some kind of senior gold captain, what do you think?" I've also been skeptical about Shanzi's identity.
The fat man's hooligan got up vigorously, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "Damn, when our brothers come forward and press him to the ground for some questioning, we will know." ”
I stopped the fat man in time, "Okay, you, if you can do this, I'll wait for you, I've already done this, you want me to see if we're a little quiet, and then observe and observe, what do you say?" ”
Before the fat man could speak, the ghost who was walking in front turned around and said, "It's still the case that Brother Ngawang said, if I follow the method that the fat man did just now, I don't think I can ask anything, but it makes Shanzi disgusted us." ”
The ghost said, paused, then walked up to me and the fat man, and whispered, "Brother Ngawang, didn't you say that Shanzi claimed that he used to be a soldier, I think eighty percent is a scout, or a special forces, I can see it as soon as I look at his style and skills." ”
As we talked, the mountain would look back at our position from time to time, and I didn't know if it was our words that he heard, so I waved my hand at the fat man and the ghost, and whispered, "Okay, don't say it, there are ears ahead." And cared about the ghost's wound, "I said, Comrade Wang, is your hand okay, is it useless?" "After all, just now when I was fighting the demons, I saw the ghost's wound bleeding again.
"If you care so much about others, you just want me to do it, brother." The ghost said, raising his arm, baring his teeth, and adding, "Don't worry, it can't be wasted." ”
I was relieved to hear the ghost say this, and then I went to interrogate Lan Xin and them one by one, to see how everyone was?
Lan Xin just looked a little tired, and the other performances were fine, but instead, she took my arm and said in a reproachful tone, "Can you not be so heroic, just jumped down without saying anything in the grave, are you really not afraid of death, or are you well-developed and simple-minded?" ”
I didn't want to argue with Lan Xin, and I knew she cared about me, so I just smiled and chose not to answer.
Yanzi's originally fair little face is now like a little flower cat, and her eyes are tired, "Little girl, how are you?" Don't come with you, you have to come, now you know it's not fun, right? ”
"Brother Wang, I know it's wrong, can't I? Don't blame me anymore, people were scared just now. Swallow had an unhappy expression, as if she was not very satisfied with my attitude just now.
I immediately changed my tone and said, "Okay, I was wrong, but don't worry, I will protect you, I am here." After hearing this, the swallow smiled with satisfaction.
As for Xiao Jing's side there is a fat man to care about, so I didn't ask much, speaking of Xiao Jing, sometimes I really think that people are the strangest animals, especially in terms of emotions, just like liking and hating only in a thought, sometimes you can make two strangers come together because of a look, and sometimes because of a sentence to make people who were originally together like strangers.
I didn't even bother to ask Uncle Jiu, after all, I am clear about Uncle Jiu's skills and experience, it is estimated that everyone here is burping, and Uncle Jiu should be safe and sound, but at least care is still needed, so I retreated to Uncle Jiu's side and asked, "Uncle Jiu, how are you, can you still fight with Ghost Ginseng for another 300 rounds?" ”
"You kid, it's okay to care about your little Lanxin, you don't have to worry about it on my side, I'm always strong." Uncle Nine said with a serious expression, looked at the darkness at the end of the cave with solemn eyes, and said, "Okay, don't talk nonsense, go and tell everyone to be careful, I always feel that something bad will happen here, this demonic aura is too heavy." ”
Hearing Uncle Nine say this, I knew that his old man was not joking, so he quickened his pace and caught up with Shanzi.