My master touched his chin and said meaningfully: "But marriage is not entirely for the sake of inheritance, you have to think about it, don't choose one, lose the other, but you can only choose one after all." ”

I scratched the back of my head and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

But Master didn't seem to want to explain, but just patted me on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, don't think about this." ”

I didn't think about it at first, did you mention this stubble first!

But I thought so in my heart, and I didn't dare to say it, so I could only nod my head pretendly, turn around and continue walking.

But before I could take a few steps, Master suddenly said, "You are not allowed to fall in love until you become an adult!" ”

His tone seemed to be joking, and it seemed to be very serious, which made my heart twist.

After walking silently for nearly half an hour, a black stone sculpture standing in the middle of the river stood in front of us. It's still one of those rootless stone statues that are two feet tall and just wide enough to block the entire cavern.

When I got to the stone carving, I could hear the sound of the wind surging behind the stone carving, which was very empty, but not too urgent.

Behind it, there should be a relatively large space, and it can be roughly judged that there should be many holes in that place, each of which is deep and leads in different directions, otherwise there would not be such a chaotic wind.

Master and I tried to push the statue to the ground, but the base of the statue seemed to sink into the ground, and no matter how hard we tried, the statue would not move.

My master took a few breaths and said to me, "I can only crawl over." ”

The surface of the stone statue is very smooth because it has been washed by water all year round, and there is still moisture on the stone surface, so you can hardly feel the friction, and there are no uneven places on the stone statue, so you can't borrow force.

At this time, the master crouched down and pointed to the top of the stone statue.

I immediately understood what Master meant, and immediately retreated a few steps, and then a lunge, and when I reached in front of Master, I raised my legs, and Master immediately reached out and dragged my feet, and while I struggled to jump, Master gave me a sharp force and lifted me up.

Although Master is old, his strength is still surprisingly great, and I used Master's strength to cross the top of the stone statue's head, and when I landed, it caused a large splash.

I heard Master ask me on the other side, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's fine." I answered the call, untied the rope behind my back, and threw it over the top of the statue.

Master climbed over the stone statue with the help of a rope, and then took out a flashlight and took a picture of me, as if he was afraid that I would bump into it.

I gave Master a smile: "It's okay, I'm steady when I land." ”

The master smiled, didn't speak, and continued to think about the depths and left.

Master and I walked a short distance along the river, and a huge space appeared in front of us.

This is a very spacious artificial tunnel, because the fox fire cannot reach the end of the tunnel, and I can't estimate its depth, but just the area that can be seen by the naked eye is as big as three or four football fields put together, and the walls on both sides and the vault more than ten meters high are all made of quadrangular stone bricks, and the water of the earth river flows through the center of the tunnel.

On the walls on both sides of the tunnel, there are arched openings every four or five meters, and the wind is coming out of these openings.

And on the ground to the left of each opening, there is a narrow groove, and those grooves are the width of a palm, but they are very long, extending from the hole to the edge of the earth.

When Master and I went ashore, we found that the ground under our feet was also paved with stone bricks, these brick slabs were very old, and they were damaged to varying degrees due to perennial moisture corrosion, and the brick surface was damp and smooth, and it was possible to get stuck if you were not careful when walking.

Carefully balancing his body, Master felt his way towards one of the holes, and I held the lantern high and lit it for Master.

Before coming to the entrance of the cave, I found that the hole was not deep, from the hole to the bottom of the cave, that is, the distance was less than ten meters, but in the upper right corner of the stone wall in the deepest part of the cave, a small hole the size of a monkey's head was dug, which was a tuyere, and the wind poured in from there.

What's even more strange is that the furnishings in the cave are very similar to the bedrooms where humans live, there is a stone platform under the left and right walls, one long and one short, five or six meters long, and the height is level with my knees, and the short one is about one meter long, but it is higher, and the height is similar to the dining table we usually eat.

In addition, there are some boxy stones in the cave, which can be used as chairs if the shorter stone platform is a dining table.

We walked around the cave and found a two-foot-square hole in the corner of the wall, and Master took out a military kettle and poured a small half pot of water into it.

After that, Master led me back to the entrance of the cave, and he crouched down and looked at the stone trough on the ground.

Not long after, I heard the sound of running water, and a wisp of clear water flowed into the stone trough, and then flowed along the stone trough to the other side of the river.

It was only then that I could see that there was a small hole the size of a copper coin in the wall at the end of the stone trough, and water flowed out of this small hole.

Then Master stood up and said to me, "The square cave in the cave and the stone trough are connected. In the early years, this place should have been a residential area, and these stone troughs on the ground should be the sewage and drainage system here. ”

After saying that, the master pointed to the things in the cave and said, "Those things should be tables, chairs, and ...... Bed. ”

When Master said the word "bed", he looked a little suspicious, and he was referring to the longest stone platform in the cave.

After this, the master pondered for a moment and then said, "This stone platform is too long, and it is estimated that it has any other purpose than sleeping. ”

I looked at the things in the cave and frowned, "But this place is so damp, it is impossible for humans to live for a long time, right?" ”

Master nodded, and then said to me, "Maybe it's not people who live there." ”

After saying that, he continued to walk towards the depths of the tunnel, and I was stunned for a long time before I followed the master with the lantern.

Aren't people living here? Could that be something, spirit?

Along the way, we looked at several caves along the road, each with the same furnishings, two stone platforms of different lengths, plus a few rough benzene stones.

The deeper you go, the heavier the yin qi becomes.

After about an hour, the fox fire illuminated the end of the tunnel, which was a huge natural stone wall, with a bronze door more than two meters high on the left and right sides of the stone wall, and in the center of the stone wall, there was a huge stone carving, the carving of the statue was extremely crude, but it was generally recognizable from the appearance, it was probably a snake coiled on the ground.

Master came to one of the doors, stretched out his hand, and tried to push the door panel that was only half cut long.

Thousands of years of damp corrosion have made this door panel very fragile, and as soon as Master put his hand on it, he heard a "click" sound, and the door panel actually broke, and then a large amount of patina fell off from it.

The master smacked his lips and pushed it twice, but the rotten bronze door could not withstand the master's force, and after shaking violently a few times, it shattered into large pieces with a bang and scattered to the ground.

At this time, Master turned around and stretched out his hand towards me: "Qinggang Sword." ”

I pulled out the green steel sword and handed it to the master, who carried the sword and cautiously felt the door.

I followed Master into the bronze door, and as soon as I entered, I could clearly feel that the air suddenly became more humid, and even my bare neck and arms were covered with a thin layer of water.

I walked beside Master with a lantern, and I didn't know how far I had walked, but at the end of the fox fire, there was a silver glow like broken glass.

Master waved his hand at me and motioned for me to be careful.

I took out one hand and quietly grabbed the Fantian seal, holding the lantern with only one hand, and continued to walk forward with Master.

It wasn't until I got closer that I could see what the floodlit stuff was. It was a large pile of snake skin, and the scales on the snake skin were like fish scales, shining layer by layer under the light of the fox fire.

These skins are supposed to be left over from the molting of the snakes. Master picked up one piece from the pile of snake skins and looked at it, but found that all of the snake skins only had the tail part of the snake, not the head of the snake.

And these snakeskins are very long, I took a cursory look, the longest can be more than ten meters long, and the short ones are three or four meters long. And all the snakeskins are all fiery red.

The master threw the snake skin in his hand and said to himself, "The people who lived in the place in the past should have been people with snakeheads and snake bodies, and they ...... It should be a member of the corpse clan. ”

If I'm not mistaken, the corpse in the town under the Mass Grave Mountain is indeed a human-headed snake body, and its snake tail is also such a fiery red.

As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but snakeskins in this huge room.

After leaving the stone room, Master took me to the stone carving of the coiled snake, I didn't know what Master was thinking, but I followed him silently, and Master also walked silently, and didn't say a word for a long time.

When I came to the snake carving, Master beckoned to me and motioned for me to come closer, and I walked up to him, and the light of the fox fire illuminated some of the small objects piled up around the statue.

Around the snake carving, there are some metal utensils scattered, and near the snake's tail, there are also a handful of gem-like things.

Those utensils are made into a shape similar to a tripod, which should be some sacrificial vessels, and the snake carving in front of him should be the ancestor of the corpse tribe, or the gods they believe in.

Master kept staring at the stone statue, not knowing what he was thinking, and after a long time, he said to me, "I saw an ancient scroll in the cabinet before, saying that in ancient times, when the wisdom of the people was not opened, most of the ancients believed in snakes. You see that the decorations in those caves are all made of stones, and these people may be the ancient people of the Stone Age. ”

I pondered Master's words for a moment and felt that something was wrong: "No, people in the Stone Age should not be able to smelt metal, but how can there be metal vessels and bronze doors in this place?" Could it be that they have been in this place for thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age or later? ”