Chapter 31: The Underground Palace
"The dragon qi enters the hole, the yang is only one meridian, and the yin is not five points", based on the "dragon shaking trick", in fact, it is just a reversal of the order of turning the stone plate in the temple before.
We finished turning the last square of the stone plate, and the brick wall in front of us opened in response, and the fat man grabbed the assault rifle and took the lead out of the brick figurines, and the rest of the people waited to come out.
Everyone came to the outside, looked around with a flashlight, although it was an underground building, the surrounding space was grand, although the carved beams and painted pillars had peeled off, but they could still see the gorgeous atmosphere of the year, and it was really in the underground palace.
We seem to be in the main hall of the underground palace, and the exit of the brick wall is behind a throne carved out of jade, and this dark wall is very exquisitely repaired, and it is completely impossible to see that there is a secret door behind the jade seat in the hall.
Finally, we came to this palace that once only existed in legends, in order to take a closer look here, we used all the lighting equipment on our bodies, only to see that the throne and floor of the main hall were jade, and the lamp on the top of the ceiling was also rotten and broken, and fell to the ground, and there were still a few gerbils crawling in the corners of the place, it seems that the air is circulating here, except for some jade products, pottery, wood, iron, bronze, silk and other things have been damaged by air erosion and extremely serious.
For us, this situation is a mixed blessing, the good thing is that since there is flowing air in the underground palace, it means that it is connected with the underground water vein, and Ye Yixin's little fate is to be picked up.
The worry is that the antiquities in the dungeon are more seriously damaged, some clay pots have rotted out of shape, and they will become powder when touched, and there are countless rusty and mottled armor blades scattered around, such as tentacle arc swords, crane beak giant axes, arc back concave blades, and there are all kinds of strange ornaments and buckles with national characteristics on the armor, and the owners of these round shield scimitars are not even bones, and if you look carefully, you may also find a few mutilated skulls.
The age is too old, the reason for the erosion and decay of the air is one, and I don't know when it started here, a lot of gerbils came in, gerbils usually feed on the roots of desert plants, and insects under the desert, and like to grind their teeth with hard objects, and many things in this underground palace have been gnawed by them.
The best preserved in the main hall belongs to this jade throne, the top of the jade seat is engraved with a red jade eye, the whole body of the seat is inlaid with gold and silver, engraved with fairy mountain clouds and mist, flowers, birds, fish and beasts and other things, the pedestal is a large piece of white jade like goat's milk, and then in the main hall with black tones, it is particularly eye-catching.
Seeing this dilapidated situation, the fat man was disappointed, sat on the jade seat, patted the handrail and said: "This is still worth a little money, and the rest will be sent to the scrap recycling station directly." ”
I thought to myself that this grandson could not change his loose temper anywhere, that he was unorganized and undisciplined, and that I had to scare and scare him, so as not to make Shirley Yang and them laugh, so I said to the fat man: "I said Comrade Wang Kaixuan, this is the position where the exploiting class of the feudal dynasty sits, and you must not forget that you are also from a revolutionary cadre family, and if you sit there, do you want your principles and stand." ”
The fat man laughed: "Come on, old Hu, are you still pretending to be a political commissar?" What years have you had to stand, do you think this jade throne is worth a million dollars? …… Hey, this head is a little bigger, and it's really hard to move back if you don't break it up. ”
I then said to the fat man: "Don't think about how it moves back first, I tell you don't believe it, this jade seat is the queen of the essence of the queen before her death, maybe her ghost is wandering in this underground palace, for thousands of years, lonely and lonely, just you sit here, maybe let the queen see, she must think, hey, this big fat man is really good, so much fat meat on his body, come on, leave the son-in-law who is the inverted door of the exquisite country, forget it, it's okay to gnaw two molars." ”
These words didn't scare the fat man, Ye Yixin was no longer in a coma, she could barely walk, Shirley Yang kept supporting her, and when I heard that the ghost of the exquisite woman was still in this underground palace, Ye Yixin rolled his eyes and was frightened and fainted.
Shirley Yang was so anxious that he stomped his feet: "Can you two not mess around?" I don't look at what time it is, so I don't come and help. ”
I saw that the fat man was in trouble again, and I didn't dare to quarrel anymore, so I lifted Ye Yixin up in the past, put it on the fat man's back, and let him carry it. I've never seen such an uneducated person as you, you are a widow in the country when you are the queen, the husband of the queen, that should be called ...... What's it called? Doesn't think it's supposed to be called an appendage, right? ”
Shirley Yang saw that the fat man was still nagging, and he was so angry that he couldn't help but say, "Call the eunuch." ”
If it weren't for the death of Hao Aiguo in the archaeological team, the atmosphere was very depressing, and it was really inappropriate to laugh at this time, so I forcibly held back and searched in the vast underground palace with everyone to find a place with a water source.
The palace under the ancient kingdom of the exquisite ancient country is not as big as I imagined before, only the main hall is quite large, the side halls on both sides are relatively simple, the gate and stone steps of the front hall are sealed by sand, leaning into the gate of the front hall, a black stone top was destroyed by explosives, which shows that someone has entered this underground palace before, look at the damage and traces of the stone door, are not done recently, not to say more than decades of history, it is likely that the owner of the black and white photo has done it, and now this gap has long been buried by the yellow sand.
After looking at the side halls on both sides, and then turning to the apse, this is the resting and living place of the royal family, there are several jade fenced fountains, but they have long dried up, and the group looked while walking, Shirley suddenly said: "Listen, is there the sound of running water?" ”
I pricked up my ears and listened, and sure enough, the sound of water was murmuring not far away, and I saw that the direction was behind the dormitory, and then everyone quickened their pace, and came to a cave behind the hall in search of the sound of water.
The cave is very low, go down very deep, come to a natural stone cave the size of a stadium, although it is natural, but obviously after artificial trimming, the ground is very flat, there is a small underground lake in the hole, a convex ground rises in the lake, like a small island in the middle of the lake, only ten square meters in size, the flat lake is like a mirror, surrounded around.
For a week, our group only drank the minimum ration of water, let alone in the desert, and it was enough to drink only such a little water a day, when we saw the cool groundwater, we were all in a hurry to plunge our heads into it.
Shirley Yang stopped everyone: "This water source has been abandoned for many years, and I don't know if it is dead water and living water, not to mention that the underground river is constantly diverted, and the current groundwater may not be the same as two thousand years ago, the underground of the Western Regions has the most sulfur, what if the water is poisonous, let's take a look first." ”
I took a closer look and saw a few small colorful fish swimming in the water of the lake, so I smiled and said, "It's filtered, there are fish in this lake, and there must be a spring in the depths, it is living water, and it will not be poisonous." ”
As soon as these words came out, the rest of the people couldn't care about anything anymore, rushed to the lake and drank water, and all poured their stomachs round, still feeling that they hadn't drunk enough, until they moved and flowed out of their mouths, and then they stopped.
Ye Yixin has dehydration and can't drink a lot of water directly, so Shirley Yang used salt and a pot of water to give her little by little. We drank so much water that we couldn't move, so we had to rest on the spot.
I have never thought that the water is so delicious as it is now, lying on the ground with my stomach upright, closing my eyes to recuperate, and then all around is quiet, I seem to hear the sound of water flowing in the distance, it seems that there is more water in this underground palace than this. The little lake where we drank was very quiet, and the sound of the water being heard in the apse came from the source of the water farther away, which was supposed to be a very large underground river, perhaps the Zduan Dark River that bypassed the Zagrama Mountains.
While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a "huh" from Shirley Yang, and my voice was full of surprise, I hurriedly sat up with my hands on the ground, and asked her what was wrong, Shirley Yang pointed to the bulge in the middle of the lake, and motioned for me to look over there.
Professor Chen and the others also sat up from the ground, and everyone looked in the direction pointed by Shirley Yang and saw an incredible scene.
On the convex ground in the lake, I don't know when, it has been crawled with a dense layer of cyan phosphor insects, there are as many as tens of thousands, their bodies gradually turn gray-white, one by one from the shell wriggling and crawling out, the molted insect body seems to have a lot of fluorescence, shining, as brilliant as the starlight in the sky, the insects stretch the wings they just get, and they can fly to the sky after a while.
At this moment, countless large rats jumped into the cave from all directions, these rats were not afraid of humans at all, they turned a blind eye to us people, jumped into the lake without hesitation, went to the water, rushed to climb the convex ground in the middle of the lake, greedily grabbed the insects that had just faded, and kept sending them to the mouth to eat.
We saw many big rats swimming in the lake, and it seems that these rats must have eaten here often, otherwise how could they be so skilled, thinking of the indescribable disgusting here, they opened their mouths and vomited, and spit out the lake water in their stomachs intact.