Chapter 33: The Murals of the Spirit Palace
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The whole hall is very simple, there is no shrine for sacrifice, incense burner or big ding, and there is no Bogu frame and brocade box for collection, so I can't see the specific purpose of this palace. The ground was littered with debris and dust.
There are four pillars in the middle of the main hall, which are densely packed with lines, but there is no pattern to follow, and if you look closely, you can find that each line has been carefully carved. This layout is a bit similar to the Thousand Corpses Altar that I encountered at the beginning, but the reliefs on the stone pillars of the altar are all obvious totems, unlike here where there are all strange patterns, at first glance, it is still very abrupt.
On the wall on one side of the main hall, there are many frescoes, most of which have been aged and damaged, only four of them are still clear, these mural fragments do not express much information, and even very abstract.
The first one has a lot of strange spots on it, and I don't see any real significance; The second is a lot of workers building a huge building, which can be a very large project. The third one is really very abstract, with nothing but strange and messy lines; The last mural is spectacular, with hundreds of heavily armed soldiers depicted on it, giving the impression that it was a war.
I looked at Brother Hao and asked him if he had any findings, he thought for a while, and said: "These murals should be seen from right to left, the first one is that there was a war, the second one is a little confusing, these are damaged in the middle, and then over there, people are building a huge palace, I don't know if it is where we are standing now, the strange spot on the far left may be those dragon ants outside." ”
"You mean, there was a war here, and for some reason, they built this palace and used those dragon ants to defend against foreign invasions?"
Brother Hao nodded and agreed, but due to our limited level, we really couldn't see the meaning of the second line.
"Then why do you think they went to such great lengths to build this palace? There's nothing here! I asked.
"They're trying to keep a secret." Brother Hao wanted to speak and stopped.
"What's the secret?" I asked.
"I don't know about this, a lot of the content on the mural is no longer visible, if there is technology that can restore it, maybe I can see it."
I didn't continue to ask, now I can be 100% sure that Brother Hao must know something, he has been hiding something from me. Thinking of the note I picked up earlier, I secretly asked, who is behind him planning all this? What is the purpose of catching us in a ghost town?
I wanted to figure out these things more and more, but I had reached this point, so I couldn't be anxious, I couldn't expose the contents of the note I had seen for the time being, and the most important thing for now was to get out of here.
I began to look around the palace, but strangely enough, there seemed to be no other exit to the outside world.
"It's unbelievable, there's no other entrance than the hole we've blocked. In other words, this is an enclosed space before we open that hole?! I said with a frown.
Brother Hao stared at the line mural closely, looking clueless.
"Big brother, the most important thing now is to go out, that big bug doesn't know when it will come in, this painting can be studied slowly when you go out!" I said in a hurry. Brother Hao looked away from the mural and looked around.
"There's really no other entrance to this place, but it's too strange to be a closed space before we come." Brother Hao said as he searched.
"Could it be that after fixing this place first, all the entrances will be sealed from the outside? But this is not scientific, who is full of food to do this? I said.
Brother Hao still searched along the wall by himself, and after looking for a few laps, he still found nothing. Suddenly, he said excitedly, "Isn't there a potion?" Keep digging out! ”
I touched my pocket, then made a helpless gesture and said, "I was in too much of a hurry just now, I fell into the hole......"
Before I finished speaking, I saw Brother Hao take out a small bottle of potion from his pocket and throw it to me. I caught it and scolded, "You fucking Doraemon! How many can you take out at once! ”
As I spoke, I reached out and touched his pocket, and Brother Hao spread his hands and said, "This is the last bottle, you can save some money." ”
I nodded angrily, went to the farthest point from the entrance of the cave, and began to 'dig'. But the potion didn't seem to work, and I took several drops in a row, and I didn't see any change in the wall.
I tried all over the wall, but nothing happened.
Brother Hao was anxious all of a sudden, and shouted, "What's the matter, why is it useless?" ”
"The walls here are not the same as the stones in the cave, they are very hard and chemically stable, maybe you can only drip through them from the outside, but we can't do anything about it inside." I guessed.
Brother Hao kept pacing in place, probably trying to figure out a way, but I collapsed and sat on the ground, looking at him in despair.
What the hell is going on here? It's really incomprehensible, a closed space, but there is nothing in it, so what is the purpose of building this place in the first place? I don't know how to explain the situation here, if only the fawn were here, and I can't help but feel sad when I think of the fawn.
"Why don't we put Mother Worm in and let it break the wall?" I proposed.
"You don't want to die, I'd rather starve to death here than see those bugs, my ass still hurts." Brother Hao said.
I couldn't help but laugh, that's why he didn't dare sit down. On second thought, even if we put the worm mother in, it won't listen to us, and it won't swallow us directly, but it's not a way to go on like this!
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed in my mind, since Brother Hao knows the secret here, does he not know how to get out? He's pretending to be here right now, just to show me, and he's sure to find out and take me out of here.
I sat on the ground and watched him for a long time, to see how long he was going to pretend. But two hours later, he still didn't move, I was a little impatient, and I said that this guy really can hold down his temperament!
It was so painful that I simply stood up, came to Brother Hao, took out the crumpled note in my pocket, and slowly unfolded it. I saw Brother Hao looking at me with a pale face, standing in place dumbfounded.