I saw that the dark passage had been opened, and I breathed a sigh of relief, and shone a flashlight into the dark passage, there was a stone staircase built of black stone, which led obliquely to the bottom, and the flashlight irradiated a limited distance, and I could not see it further down.

The fat man waved his hand and beckoned the five people who were waiting at the door of the temple in, and everyone was full of praise for my method of dividing gold and fixing acupoints when they saw that the secret passage was opened.

At this time, it was already past noon, I said a few modest words, and asked everyone to pack up, try to travel as lightly as possible, first go outside the temple and eat a few mouthfuls of dry food with some water, this secret passage still does not know how far to go, and then go in when you are fully prepared.

When I was eating dry food, Sa Dipeng asked me curiously how I found the secret passage, and it was too accurate.

I said to him: "Just look at the arrangement of the sixteen big stone pillars, you can see that the arrangement of this dark passage is a giant gate formation handed down from ancient times, why is it called a giant gate, that is, this kind of mechanism, most of them are used on the passage portal, these numbers are evolved from Luo number and the arrangement of stars in the sky. The mystery in this is deep, and you can't understand it. ”

After a short rest, I led the way down the secret passage in the temple, and under the entrance, I found a stone lever that could be used to open the floor tile from below, these mechanisms were exquisitely designed, and after nearly two thousand years, the machine can still be used, and the construction principle is very unusual, although it uses a lot of easy ideas, but it is self-contained, if these are all invented by the Exquisite Queen, then she must be an unborn genius.

At first, we were worried that there was a mechanism in the dark passage, but when we went down, we were cautious and extra cautious, and we opened up the distance and walked slowly, and when we went down to the end of the stone steps, we suddenly opened up in front of us, and there was a figurine road that was five meters wide and about three meters high.

The surrounding area of the figurine road is no longer pitch black stones, all of them are made of the Western Regions heavenly bricks (the rectangular pale yellow adobe bricks used to build the city wall in the ancient Western Regions, mixed with rammed earth, cow dung, cool sand, etc., dry and solid, and not cracked for a long time), and the top of the head is built into a round arch, and the walls are full of strange and bright murals.

The most common thing that appears in the painting is the eyes, both large and small, open and co-authored, some only draw eyeballs, some have eyelids and eyelashes, and the eyes are regarded as totems, and this figurine leads to the temple, and there are so many eyes painted that only the clergy and rulers like the queen are qualified to enter, and they may not have been used many times since they were built.

The environment of this figurine road is very closed, the air is not circulated, and the color of the mural is as good as new, without the slightest peeling, which makes Professor Chen and others very excited.

Professor Chen said that as far back as the early 19th century, there were a large number of murals in the ruins of the ancient city of Xinjiang discovered by foreign explorers, almost all of which were mainly religious themes, but unfortunately the government did not protect them at that time, and they were completely looted and lost to foreign countries.

When I heard the professor say this, I thought of the legend that the queen was a monster, this ancient city is very strange, if there are really monsters, maybe you can find some clues from this mural, in case you really run into it, you can know that you will not be defeated, so I turned on the flashlight to look at those murals one by one.

However, in all the figurines and murals, there is no figure of the exquisite queen at all, and the content of the paintings is to show some rituals, some of them are painted with a jade eyeball emitting light, and a black hole appears in the sky, and a giant eye-like flesh egg falls from the hole.

Some depict countless black monster snakes crawling out of their flesh eggs, devouring and biting several bound slaves, and the slaves struggle in agony.

There are also paintings of black peaks, and the mountains are crawling with black snakes, and the surrounding beasts are kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to the strange snakes on the mountain.

Some of these scenes we have seen before, and the comparison of the situation depicted on the mural here confirms Professor Chen's judgment, this kind of strange snake with black eyeballs on its head has always been regarded as a guardian beast-like existence by the exquisite people, they know how to summon and drive these snakes and beasts, and often sacrifice snakes and beasts with living people.

As we walked, we stopped in front of the last painting, which showed a huge cavern, a slender staircase that spiraled down the walls.

Shirley Yang said to Professor Chen, "If you look at the origin of this cave and the name of the ghost cave clan, will there be any relationship?" ”

Professor Chen said: "It is very likely that the spiral staircase on the wall of this cave is as small as a thin line, which is completely disproportionate to this big hole. ”

I remember once listening to them tell the legend that the ghost cave family came from underground, I didn't think much about it at the time, I thought it was purely ancient people, and now I saw the murals, and I was suspicious, the things in these murals, some of us have seen with our own eyes, it seems that they are not tricked to draw out to bluff people, maybe in the depths of the exquisite ancient city, there is really such a big hole.

The fat man said with a smile: "If there is really such a big hole in the world, wouldn't it lead to the other side of the world, and if you want to go abroad to save trouble in the future, you can take a plane and jump directly from this hole in the earth, and you will arrive in the United States in a short time." ”

Shirley Yang turned a deaf ear to the fat man's nonsense, and asked Professor Chen: "The giant pupil stone figures of the Ghost Cave Clan are probably their true colors, and if they really come from the dark world underground, then it can explain their admiration for eyes." ”

Professor Chen said: "What you said has a certain truth, there is another possibility, this huge cave is the other world that repeatedly appears in the ghost cave civilization, that is, what you call the imaginary space, this is likely to be an entity, in ancient times, the ghost cave people discovered this huge cave, they can't explain why there is such a big underground cave in the world, do their best, and can't go down to the bottom of the cave to get a glimpse." The ancients admired the power of nature, they may have regarded this huge cave as a miracle, worship, they hoped that their eyes would be more developed, they could see the situation at the bottom of the cave, a few people claimed that their eyes could see the world at the bottom of the cave, they were revered, became the rulers of the tribe or the clergy, because their power came from the eyes, so they regarded the eyes as the source of power. ”

When the fat man listened to the professor's words, he was greatly heartbroken, and raised his thumb and praised: "Okay, old man, you can see so many famous people with just one painting, and you can talk about it like there is really such a thing, if you go to practice the stall, you will be able to dazzle a large piece and sell what is popular." ”

Professor Chen was not in the mood to laugh with him, so he casually said: "I'm just a subjective speculation, I can't do it accurately, let's go out of the secret passage to see if there is such a big cave, or see is believing." ”

I don't know why, as soon as I heard them talk about the underground cave, I remembered the past when I saw the nine-story demon tower in the underground of Kunlun Mountain, that time I lost several comrades, since then I have a little more fear of the deep underground cave, I am very worried about the people in the archaeological team What accidents will happen again, if it is not necessary to enter the underground palace to find a water source, I really want to pull them back, since this desert archaeology has achieved significant results, it is not bad for the cave.

I said to the professor, "The body of a daughter is not in danger. You are all people with status in society, there is no need to take risks, and after we find the water source in the dungeon and replenish it, we should go back. Now that we have found the Exquisite Ancient City, our task is completed, you can write an assessment report and hand it over to the relevant departments of the superiors, and let the government solve the rest of the matter later. ”

Professor Chen shook his head, but he didn't speak, he had wanted to explore the mystery of the ghost cave civilization all his life, he had arrived here, his heart was itching, how could he agree, besides, Shirley Yang had always thought that her father's expedition had been to the Exquisite Ancient City, and she would not give up if she didn't find it, they said that they would not go back.

I had no choice but to follow them on, thinking that I had done my best anyway, and I had said everything I had to say, and if something really happened, I would have a clear conscience.

The figurine road is not very long, there are no steps at the end, only a stone pillar, there is no portal, is it possible that the figurine road under this temple is a dead end, just to paint the murals of those sacrificial ceremonies?

The fat man looked around, turned to me and said, "Old Hu, do you still have any tricks this time?" If you don't have a move, you can put on explosives. ”

I said, "Do you have anything other than violent means, use your brain, take a look first, I estimate that this secret door will most likely fall on this single stone pillar." ”

This lonely stone pillar standing in the heavenly brick figurines is several times smaller than the sixteen large stone pillars in the temple, but the shape is exactly the same, and there are six-sided statues coiled at the bottom of the columns, and the empty side is facing the narrow wall at the end.

This is easy to do, it turns out that the dragon tail of the sixteen dragons is here, and I still let the fat man help, according to the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" in accordance with the "Dragon Hunting Order" in the "Dragon Hunting Order", the "dragon shaking trick" under the stone pillar.

(There's something this week, no update yet, thanks for smashing the ticket, next update time, Monday.)