XXIX Crater
Junko's voice came from the darkness: "This insect is worshipped as a god in our place, because it can live for a long time, and after a worm dies, its corpse will attract many, many of its kind, so we must be very careful when we leave, and never step on them." ”
As he spoke, he turned on the flashlight, and as soon as the flashlight was turned on, the sea of green stars around him immediately disappeared, and suddenly it turned into boundless darkness again.
The protection of these worms is too powerful, if we don't turn off the flashlight, we can't detect it at all, I can't help but be afraid for a while, if I accidentally press one to death when I climbed just now, I will die here.
We gathered our minds and continued to climb slowly up the stone stairs, carefully passing this section of the hot spring, the stone worms gradually decreased, and then we could not see it, obviously as Shunzi said, the ecological links of the snow-capped mountains are all around the hot springs.
But the scene just now is really spectacular, if I have the chance, I really want to see a few more times, it's hard to imagine that such an ugly insect can form such a beautiful scene, this world is really very strange.
Without the stone worms, our speed is relatively fast, but the darkness above seems endless, and we don't know when we will be able to get out of the gap and walk to another exit of this natural pathway.
The fat man asked as he crawled, "By the way, old man, let me ask you something." At the station, what did you tell us, what happened to the Nine Dragons carrying the corpse? I've been listening, but I haven't heard you mention it again? ”
Chen Pi Ah Si stopped and glanced at him, then at Monk Hua, and motioned for him to come. Monk Hua explained: "We don't know, all our information is from that Arowana. The Nine Dragons carrying the corpse may be a lost funeral system, the original text of the record, it seems to say that the coffin of the Wannu Emperor was carried by nine dragons, and the nine dragons guarded his body, and no one could get close, but the Jurchen language was almost lost, what I translated. I don't know if that's what it means. ”
Then he read the original text out to us, and the pronunciation of Jurchen was so unfamiliar that I didn't understand anything at all.
"Wow, if the words on this fish are true, then we have to open the coffin of the Wannu Emperor, don't we have to learn which one first, the third prince of the Dragon King?" Ye Cheng joked.
"Then don't cāo this heart, I see this Nine Dragons carrying the corpse coffin, which is probably the xìng quality of nine dragons carved under the coffin, which means." The fat man said: "If there is really a dragon, then we will make a fortune, catch him and go back, put him in the Forbidden City, and the custodian will be crowded, and the money for the tickets alone will be tens of thousands." ”
I said: "Just your point, just worry about money, if you really catch the dragon, then you are Sun Dasheng, I haven't seen Sun Dasheng is your figure." ”
The fat man was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "What about fat? Fat man, I went to heaven and earth, relying on this body of fat. Shake the wind and clouds change suddenly, shake the mountains and shake - oops"
Before the fat man could finish speaking, suddenly a gust of wind blew from the side of the cliff, and he almost fell down, so I quickly grabbed him and pulled him back to the cliff. When I turned my head, it turned out that the gap had reached the end of the gap, and the stairs had reached the end of the gap, and when I walked over again, there seemed to be a large space outside, but it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
It's here! I felt a sudden thrill in my heart.
A few men stopped talking, and with their heads covered, they approached the edge of the edge, where there was a protruding rock, and we climbed up. Monk Hua first set off a cold fire, and the surroundings were illuminated, except for the cliff where we stood, nothing was illuminated in front of us.
Then he threw the cold smoke under the cliff, and the cold smoke fell straight down, and suddenly it became a small dot, and watched it get smaller and smaller, and when it fell to the ground, it was almost impossible to see.
We can't help but wonder, what is the place ahead? How it seems to be a huge basin surrounded by cliffs.
"Flares." Chen Pi Ah Si said.
'Bang! Immediately, a meteor-like flare slid through a long arc, shè into the darkness in front of him, straight out of shè one hundred and sixty or seventy meters, began to fall, and then a dazzling white sè incandescent ball exploded, and the light illuminated the entire darkness in front of it at once.
I tried to raise the telescope to look ahead, but halfway through my hand, I froze, and suddenly my ears could not hear any sound, and time seemed to freeze.
Under the illumination of the white sè light, an incomparably huge crater, with a diameter of at least 3 kilometers, appeared in front of us, a huge basin formed by the giant gray sè basalt, like a giant stone bowl, and we stood on the bowl wall on one side, like a few small ants, incomparably small.
"I didn't think it would be directly connected to the volcano." There was a man's voice on the side, but I couldn't tell who this person was, and all I could think of was the spectacular scene in front of me.
If the hydra cypress and the ancient bronze tree just give me a sense of miracle, then this crater basin buried in the ground is simply a trace of the gods.
The basin is covered with a large number of dead trees, and apparently the crater was once exposed to the atmosphere, and it must have been an 'underground forest' in the first place, probably due to a volcanic eruption, or sudden volcanic activity, when the trees here were sulfurized and died, and the remains of the forest are still standing in the basin.
"Look there." Someone continued to shout, and I couldn't tell who it was. Then two more flares rang out, flying above the crater.
Illuminated by the enhanced light, we see a magnificent complex of buildings that appears in the depths of the subterranean forest of the zhōngyāng in the volcanic basin, a huge black stone city that is dark and secluded, and it is impossible to see the whole picture.
Is that our destination this time, the mausoleum of Emperor Wannu for eternity? The underground palace of Genting Heavenly Palace could be in the crater?