Chapter 43: The Ghost Town of Snake Swamp (Part II)
We all looked at each other, and a sense of fate came, it turned out that we only had ten minutes left to go to the exit of the so-called canyon last night, and we chose to stop, and if we had insisted on walking at that time, the result might have been completely different.
A few steps further on, we came to the edge of the swamp, from which the view of the swamp was limited, and not as wide as what we saw at the top of the valley outside. If you don't walk along the mountain wall, you don't know that you have already left the valley, and there is still a dense forest ahead, which feels like a continuation of the canyon. Of course, there are still differences, the more you walk, the more you feel wrong, the water is getting deeper and deeper, and the sludge in the ground is becoming more and more untenable.
Fortunately, in the shallow part of the swamp, there was a large flat stone, which protruded very abruptly over the swamp and did not flood it. We wondered how such a large stone could be here, and we carefully waded through the water and climbed up, only to find that this huge stone was carved with intricate decorative patterns, and there was a very large shadow under the water, which seemed to be part of several large statues side by side.
This is an entrance to the West Queen Mother City, the West Queen Mother is the king of the Western Regions, and has been the absolute jīng god leader of the Western Regions for a long time, so the entrance to the West Queen Mother City is naturally not too shabby, maybe this is a stone sculpture at that time, or a statue on the city defense building here, used to give the envoys to come and go to jīng god deterrence, of course, after so many years, this kind of statue is naturally impossible to preserve under the rain wash.
At first glance, I looked at the ancient lines on the stone, and it felt very similar to the one in Angkor Wat, but when I looked closely, I found that it was not the lines of Khmer Buddhism, but because this stone was also blackened and gray by the wind and rain, and it looked particularly ancient and mysterious.
Just as I was thinking about whether there were other ruins under the swamp if there was a fallen statue here, I heard the fat man call out and let us see his side.
We turned our heads to look, and saw that in the sun, in the deeper part of the black swamp in front of us, there were dense huge black shadows, which seemed to be calming something, and it seemed to be stones, and some of them were completely underwater. I looked with a telescope and was surprised to find that the shadows under the swamp seemed to be all ruins and ruins, all the way to the center of the swamp.
The ruins of the ancient city of the Queen Mother of the West were buried under this swamp.
"There must have been a very prosperous ancient city in the valley, but after the collapse of the Western Mother Kingdom, the ancient city was deserted, the drainage system collapsed, the groundwater gushed up, and the rainwater carried with the sediment and sludge for thousands of years flooded the whole city under water. It seems that the scale of the West Queen Mother City is very large, and what we see now is only a handful. The stuffy oil bottle said lightly.
I was also a little shocked, it is not uncommon for the ancient city to be flooded, this swamp is actually not large, and the ancient city at that time has developed to the edge of this basin, indicating that the civilization at that time has reached its peak. But in this case, the West Queen Mother Palace, Qi is also in the underwater sludge, how do we get in?
However, thinking of Wen Jin's notes, this swamp has not been formed for a year or two, in the nineties of the twentieth century, in her team, Huo Ling entered the West Queen Mother Palace, also after the heavy rain, so there should be a way to get in, but we have not yet reached that situation.