Chapter 511: Stone Road in the Forest
Gong Jue has always been a promise, I don't ask anymore, I slept peacefully, and set off again early the next morning, Huang Ping and Ye Jiuqing opened the road in front, originally thought that the deeper the forward, the more difficult it would be, but after walking for a long time, I really entered the primeval forest, and the road became smooth. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
We also quickened our pace, but after a day of walking, we suddenly realized that the most difficult problem was that although there were no hard vines in the primeval forest, it was full of towering trees, and it was estimated that the least tree had lived for more than a hundred years.
The dense foliage was intertwined, the light could barely penetrate it, there was no way to the mountain, and we were going in the general direction, but now the dense woods completely obscured our view.
We couldn't make out the direction at all, and after walking for a long time, the high priest suddenly walked in his footsteps, and we seemed to get lost in the primeval forest, and these towering trees grew densely, as if forming a huge natural labyrinth, and we went around and around and returned to the same place.
We all know very well what is unexpected when we get lost in the deep mountains and old forests, this is not exactly as simple as being trapped here, and we can't find the right direction, we don't know how much time we will spend here, and from the itinerary we have far exceeded the expected time.
Tian Ji took out the compass and looked at the mountain peak on the Red Blood Peak, the general direction was in the southeast, and at our speed I believed that it should not be far from the mountain, Tian Ji said that we could only follow the compass and go southeast to see if we could get out of the forest.
For today's plan, we had to follow the method of the field chicken, but after walking for most of the day, we had no idea where we were, and we could not see the end of the forest, and the field chicken in front of us suddenly stopped.
Looking at the compass in our hands with a surprised face, we hurriedly walked up and found that the compass had no regular choice and could not indicate the direction at all.
Ye Jiuqing immediately took out the probe shovel and drove it into the ground, and when he lifted it up, there were iron-black impurities in the soil layer, Ye Jiuqing rubbed it with his hands, and his face suddenly changed greatly: "Magnets, there are a lot of magnets in the soil layer here, which will interfere with the compass." ”
We looked at each other, there was no tool to show the way, in the endless vast forest is undoubtedly the most dangerous, the first priority must be to find the mountain as a reference, the field chicken quickly climbed the tree, to find the location of the mountain.
When he came down from the tree, his face was gloomy: "There are mountains all around, and the view is blocked, and now I don't know where I am, so I can't see the location of the mountain at all." ”
"What then?" Xue Xinrou was taken aback. "We are lost here, and we can't even get out of this forest, let alone go to the mountain that the guqin shows."
"At the beginning, we were careless, we should leave a person in the Red Blood Peak, we must have a reference, so that it is easy to discern the direction, but now we can't even go back to ......"
I was just halfway through my sentence when suddenly a whispering voice sounded in my ears, as if it was speaking something to me.
"Did you hear anything?" I asked, frowning.
Gong Jue had a keen hearing, looked around and listened for a moment: "There is no special sound, what did you hear?" ”
I don't know how to describe it, but I feel like there is a very slight voice in my ears all the time, like someone whispering softly, and the sound lingers in my head, but looking at the reaction of the others, it is clear that they did not hear.
"Isn't it the same as the last time you went to the Temple of the Ancestral God, you heard the same sound." Wen Ru asked behind me.
I was suddenly startled, and looked back at Wen Ru, his face was full of gloomy joy at the moment, and I suddenly remembered that I had heard this voice before, and when I went to the Temple of the Ancestral God, this voice had appeared, and it kept appearing and lingering in my ears.
They couldn't remember it because they had lost the memory of this experience, but Wen Ru had divine blood on him, and his memory had not been erased.
It was the voice of God, as if it was calling me, the voice continued to come from the dense forest, as if to guide me in the direction of the way, I remember that in the Temple of the Ancestral God, we were trapped in a huge Rubik's Cube, and the ever-changing Rubik's Cube was the same as the current predicament, there was no way to find an exit at that time, but I just followed this voice to lead others to save the day.
I stood in place and turned around, finally determined the direction of the sound, I asked the others to tighten up, tracing the source of the sound, gradually the sound in my ears became more and more subtle, when the sound disappeared completely, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the dense woods had become sparse, the sunlight penetrated through the gaps, and the vision ahead became clearer.
The mountain marked by the guqin appeared in front of us, and it was not far away, I stood quietly in place, there was an inexplicable excitement in my mood, looking at the high mountain, it seemed that we had really found the right place.
"Come and see." Ye Zhiqiu squatted in front and greeted excitedly and loudly.
We walked over and saw the dense grass exposed regular stone slabs, this is obviously a man-made road, the stone slabs also have typical Qin Dynasty ornaments, after more than 2,000 years, this Qin Dynasty stone road is still well preserved, although it is covered by grass and trees, but it seems to have been quietly here, waiting for the next time to find people here, to tell them about the glory of this place two thousand years ago.
To build such a regular stone road in the deep mountains and old forests is an extremely huge project in itself, and this stone road is enough to prove all our speculations, and I believe that at the end of the stone road is that we are looking for the huge and magnificent demon kingdom.
"Why is it that the stone road is well preserved, but there are dented cracks on both sides?" Huang Ping squatted on the ground and was a little puzzled.
"Fusu commanded a large number of Qin troops and people and laborers to come here, if you build the Demon Country, you will not need to build a separate stone road, which means that there are a large number of materials that need to be transported to the Demon Kingdom, and the grooves and cracks on both sides of the stone road should be the indentations of the car, which shows that the things transported at that time were extremely heavy, and the number was amazing." Ye Jiuqing looked at it and said with certainty.
"You can use local materials to build the Demon Kingdom, there are mountains and trees everywhere, and there are no bad materials, so why do you have to transport things here from other places." The field chicken was confused.
"Because what is brought in, it is impossible to have it here." Ye Jiuqing squatted on the ground, his fingers flicking in the grass on the side of the road.
"What's that?"
Ye Jiuqing raised his hand, a stone was firmly caught by Tian Ji, he held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, Tian Ji wiped the soil on it, the stone was crystal clear under the sunlight, and the delicate texture inside could be seen.
"Lantian Jade!"
I blurted out, this is a piece of broken Lantian jade, this kind of jade will never appear in Jiulian Mountain, and it is also a high-quality Lantian ancient jade, which is not the same as the Lantian jade mined in Guanzhong today.
"The literature records that Lantian jade mining has a long history, seen in the Han book, Lantian, the mountain out of the beautiful jade, there is the Huhou Mountain Temple, Qin Xiaogong also, but after the Qin Dynasty, the ancient jade of Lantian is becoming scarce, and the ancient Lantian jade that flourished for nearly a thousand years has been hidden." Ye Zhiqiu pointed to the jade in Tian Ji's hand and said.
It is rumored that when Emperor Qin built Afang Palace, he once escorted 200,000 laborers to Lantian to dig jade mines, in the Zhou ceremony, the beauty of jade is blue, since ancient times Lantian jade is the best jade, how long has the Afang Palace been repaired, how long have these 200,000 people dug in Lantian, so that after the Qin Dynasty, the real Lantian jade mine no longer exists, it can be seen how much Lantian jade was dug up at that time.
But Afang Palace is a wooden and stone structure, even if it is decorated with Lantian jade, it will definitely not need so much, but the whereabouts of this amazing batch of Lantian jade are unknown since then.
I heard Zhu Qi say before, people outside call the temple Qingqiu Jade Ruins, according to legend, the temple is all built with jade, at first I really didn't take it seriously, you must know that the construction of a huge jade palace is a completely unimaginable huge project.
But now looking at the sunken cracks on the stone pavement in front of him, as well as the broken jade of Lantian scattered in the grass and trees on the roadside, it can be seen that this rumor is actually true, and the huge and majestic demon kingdom in the mural is actually built with jade.
Jiangxi is not far from Guanzhong, and in order to build a demon country, it is an extremely huge project to secretly transport so many Lantian jades here.
"Isn't the ancestral god just looking for a secret place to rest, why do you have to use jade to build a demon kingdom?" Ye Jiuqing frowned and muttered to himself.
I think of the huge jade carving I saw in the temple of the ancestral god, which is actually the jade coffin where the ancestral god rests, which shows that the ancestral god has a long requirement for jade, and presumably jade has some extremely important role for the ancestral god.
We walked along the stone road, and saw symmetrical statues in the grass and trees on both sides of the road, all of which were three-headed and six-armed with majestic and hideous appearances, and these statues were obviously incompatible with the style of the stone road.
Moreover, Ye Zhiqiu and Xue Xinrou both inferred from the craftsmanship of the statue that it has the characteristics of Jiuli, and the time of construction is roughly around the Western Jin Dynasty, so it can be seen that the statue was built later, and from the time of view, it happened to be when the ancestral god woke up in the demon kingdom.
The sky is getting late, the sky is just beautiful, the moon and stars in the night sky are sparse, the moonlight illuminates the stone road in the grass, we can't help the joy in our hearts, the most excited is Ye Zhiqiu and Xue Xinrou, for them who study archaeology, they will soon be able to witness a huge jade palace complex, I am afraid there is nothing more than this for them to look forward to and yearn for.
I walked at the back, and when I got here, I suddenly didn't have joy, but felt a little nervous, and at the end of the stone road was the demon kingdom, where everything started, including me, and suddenly I felt like I was going home.
Everyone asked me to come back here, and when I was really about to find it, I was a little overwhelmed, what secrets are hidden in the demon kingdom, and the twelve gods will do everything to let me come back.
Will my lost memories be regained in the Demon Kingdom, and what kind of person will I become when I remember everything?
These questions made my steps slower and slower, and I was even a little afraid to approach that place, until the whispering voice in my ears sounded again, as if calling me home......