Li Xuebin sent someone to invite Sun Yang back semi-forcedly, they had cleared a large area between the mountains and forests, and there were more and more equipment on the ruins outside the cave. A huge generator hummed and roared, and several thick cables stretched across the ground that stretched deep into the cavern. When Sun Yang walked into the cave, he saw that the No. 1 forward base had built a fully enclosed laboratory and sealed the cave with a thick steel wall, and a second forward base had been established more than 800 meters away from the No. 1 base, surrounded by a large number of soldiers armed with flamethrowers.

"These things are very afraid of fire, and this is the best way to protect the ruins inside." Li Xuebin introduced to him.

He took Sun Yang to a computer and called up a three-dimensional map of the cave structure to show him.

"This is a structural map of the main cave that we obtained with a seismic wave detector and a remote-controlled robot, and the accuracy rate should be more than 80 percent." He said to Sun Yang. "You know where they are, what they are, tell our staff, and we'll mark them so we can pass them on to the battle squad in front in time."

Sun Yang saw that there were constantly carts carrying the charred corpses of the crickets outside and burning them.

"How many have you killed?"

"I haven't counted them, but there should be thousands." Li Xuebin said.

"You're going to exterminate them?"

"How can it be extinct, there are so many forks in the road and branches in this ghost place, there will always be some escapes." Li Xuebin replied as a matter of course. "These things are not naturally occurring organisms in the first place, and they don't help the ecosystem in any way. We're going to leave some of them for research in the lab, and we're going to destroy everything else, at least everything we see. ”

Sun Yang's mood was a little complicated, he didn't have a good impression of this kind of thing that had brought countless troubles to himself, to Lu Xiaoling, and to Master Cao, but he had a rather strange feeling when he saw them face the end like this under the power of modern technology.

Just like mountain ghosts, they can still barely survive in ancient times, or in remote mountain villages like Jiaoxi, but in the face of increasingly powerful humans, once they attract official attention, they may have only one ending.

This world, after all, no longer belongs to the monsters.

Maybe things like Taoism will eventually be mercilessly buried by institutions like the Special Cases Bureau.

But in that case, what is his current effort?

He quickly told the staff what he knew, who quickly typed in and told the front-line personnel the latest information via the radio.

How many people are slaughtering in the cave now? Sun Yang couldn't help but think.

"Would you like to see our results?" Li Xuebin asked.

Sun Yang nodded.

Li Xuebin brought him back to Base No. 1, where Zhang Chengmin was excitedly discussing something with a man in his sixties.

"It should be kept as a museum." The man said loudly. "These statues are of great significance to our study of the history of Sanmiao, Baipu and Jiuli, and many things have not been found in previous classics, which is a major discovery in the history of archaeology!"

"Professor Wang, you will have time to study slowly in the future." Li Xuebin interrupted him. "What I want to know is, what exactly is sealed in this place? How much of the statues could possibly be real? ”

"It's hard to say." The man known as Professor Wang smiled awkwardly, as if he was a little dismissive of his extremely utilitarian and pragmatic attitude. "Now we haven't been able to go deep into the location of the altar, so there is no way to make an accurate judgment, but judging from the situation of the three main halls and nine small halls that have been surveyed on the spot, in addition to worshipping the ancestral god of the Sanmiao people, Chiyou, a large number of evil gods that we used to think were monsters are also sacrificed here, and their status seems to be quite high in the mythological system of the Sanmiao people."

"We have now recorded three hundred and twenty-two sculptures, some of which are clearly duplicates, and I have now counted seventy-five completely different creatures, of which thirty-one are humanoid or clearly self-conscious......"

"Eighty-one?" Sun Yang said suddenly.

"What did you say?" Professor Wang asked.

"In myths and legends, doesn't Chiyou have eighty-one brothers?"

"It's possible, but that won't be known until the entire cave has been thoroughly investigated." Professor Wang said. "Judging by the size of the cave and the number of carvings, I think Cave No. 7 should be the center of this huge underground palace, and it is dedicated to the legendary Xingtian."

"Xingtian?" Li Xuebin frowned. "The guy who got his head off and still jumped alive and continued to wield an axe?"

This made Professor Wang frown, but he nodded anyway.

Li Xuebin laughed, he was obviously a human supremacist in the Special Cases Bureau, and he had a natural contempt for these legendary characters.

"Then let's see!" He said with a smile.

The battle team cleared the road leading to the altar at about four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and Li Xuebin and others couldn't wait to rush over.

The torch had been extinguished, but the lights now placed by the military illuminated the entire space as if it were daytime.

The corpses of the toads emitted a pungent smell, and the corpses on the altar began to decompose.

They carefully examined what looked like the traces left behind by the fierce battle, and Li Xuebin finally put away some of the scorn and banter.

"You said you felt the tremors in the distance?" He said with a frown. "How far?"

"I don't know, about six or seven hundred meters?"

"There is a strong tremor six or seven hundred meters away?" Li Xuebin touched the huge hole that had been destroyed in the rock wall in an unknown way with his hand, and he didn't speak for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

But Professor Wang has made a new discovery.

"It's not Xingtian that is sealed here!" He said loudly.

"What?" People walked over to him.

"The reliefs here are supposed to tell what happened." Professor Wang carefully looked at the reliefs carved into the stone around the altar, which Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling had not found because of the dim light before.

"The monster made a rebellion, the people suffered from it, and then someone killed it." Professor Wang interprets the story told on the relief. "Look at the image of this hero, it's Xingtian!"

"They prayed to the heavens, and then sealed the monster away." Zhang Chengmin continued to interpret, the carving technique was quite rough, but he could vaguely see what they wanted to express. "Professor Wang, what could this monkey-like monster be? Mountain ghosts? ”

"I don't think it's going to be a mountain ghost." Professor Wang shook his head. "If I had to guess, then I think it might be Wuzhiqi, or Zhu Yan."