Thinking about it, we have come to the bottom of the statue, the water is getting faster and faster, we see the swamp under the roots of the water, we don't know what is going on, Panzi told us to be careful, saying that there may be some gap in the ruins under the silt leading to the ground. It's like going into a well.

The fat man didn't listen at all, all his attention was drawn to the stone carving on one side, and the miner's lamp slid around on it.

Under the focal light, I saw more details, the stone sculpture seemed to be carved from a whole boulder, and many places had been broken and cracked, because of the large amount of moss covered, which made it look even more weird and ugly, so close up, I couldn't feel what the whole carving was.

After a few glances, the fat man shone the light underwater, and the stone statue was almost wrapped in the middle of two huge dipterocarp trees, and the part of the swamp was completely surrounded by the roots, and it could be seen that at the depths of the water, there were some strange shadows that were wrapped at the same time, and the shape was very irregular, shrunk in the roots of the trees. I don't know if it's part of the stone carving.

The fat man looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see what it was, and I also found it strange why the roots of the trees around him could be illuminated so clearly by the miner's lamp, and how the thing was illuminated was a shadow.

And looking at the direction of the crops attached to the roots of the tree, it seems that the water here is flowing down this black hole. Sure enough, as Pan Zi said, there was a gap under the statue leading to the ground.

I thought I could see something strange, but now I can't help but be disappointed, so Panzi continued to urge, and we had to continue to set off.

The fat man was not very willing, and while paddling the miner's lamp to shine back, he said to himself: "Where does this water go?" Is there an empty city underneath it? ”

No, this may be part of the previous urban sewerage project, and some underground water canal shafts can still be used, so there will be such a phenomenon.

The fat man said, "Then where does this sewer lead to?" It's a low-lying area, and there's no place to go any lower. ”

I thought about it, the drainage system of the general city has a large river in the vicinity that exits and finally rushes into the sea. Like this ancient city in the Western Regions, there are no large above-ground lakes or rivers nearby, but there will definitely be dark rivers passing around, so according to reason, this drainage system should lead to the nearby dark rivers, however, in fact, the rainfall in the Western Regions is very small, and the water here is particularly precious, so it is impossible to need such a luxury system of "drainage".

So I feel that the drainage system here is either brought into the dark river below, or there are wells or pools of water everywhere in the underground of the ancient city, and this water is poured into the deep wells and stored, and these wells may be connected to the underground wells like the qanats in Turpan, and when one well is full, it automatically sends water to the other well until all the wells are full.

The hollow under this statue may be the mouth of the well at that time, which is also quite likely. The stone tower we saw just now, the fat man said that there was a sound of water below, which may also be the sound of the underground water diversion tunnel.

"This fucking is digging deep holes and accumulating grain, it seems that the idea of [**] also comes from the ancients, our Queen Mother of the West is really not ambiguous." The fat man said.

Pan Zi said: "But there is so little rain here, and it only takes a few years for a heavy rain, and this kind of big project may take hundreds of years to draw, will it work?" ”

"If you look at it in a short period of time, it may outweigh the losses, but the countries of the Western Regions, if there is water, you can be the king, Loulan is known as the great power of the Western Regions, and there are only a few thousand soldiers, the terrain here is strange, if there is a large amount of water, even if the country is not large, you can stick to it, you look at the situation here, this oasis must be formed because of this, the tree can fix the water, and the water can raise the tree, the Queen Mother of the West at that time was obviously a far-sighted person."

Originally, the geographical location of the ancient city of the West Queen Mother is extremely low-lying, and such a setting can even introduce limited Gobi groundwater, but if I am right, then we have been here for a few days, and for such a long time, these wells are still draining, indicating that those wells are not full yet, how deep are the wells and thoroughfares underneath?

Pan Zi thought for a while, nodded and said: "It makes sense, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, if there is a war and someone sneaks into the city to throw poison for the epidemic, isn't it that the whole city is unlucky?" ”

I said: "There will definitely not be many wellheads, I think maybe there may be wellheads in the West Queen Mother's Palace and the ministers' homes, and the people may use the kind of public wellheads they just saw, these places must be heavily guarded, we have also seen costume films, poisoning this kind of thing looks easy, but it is still difficult to do, after all, the wellhead is deep, and the poison is diluted, I am afraid that even E. coli will not die." ”

Speaking of this, the fat man was stunned for a moment, he didn't know what he thought, he thought about it and suddenly said: "Damn, so to speak, these wellheads must be open, so we can go from the wellhead to the West Queen Mother's Palace." ”

That's true, but we're not fish, and the shafts below are bound to crisscross like a maze, and even if you are given the best diving equipment, you may not make it out alive. Perhaps, the wellhead below is only the thickness of the bowl mouth, which is more troublesome. The fat man scolded: "You are sarcastic about me again, right? Fat man, I'm getting in the way of you. I said, "Damn, I'm sarcastic about you." I haven't lost the weight of a bowl myself. "I don't think so." The fat man said: "We used to learn the basic course when we were on the side, digging the ridge and diversion canal, and the width should also be determined according to the amount of water. Xiao Wu, can't you count these? "When I was studying architecture, I talked about this problem, but now I need to use it temporarily, and it is completely impossible, so I have to give up after thinking about it for a few seconds. He said to him: "I can't think of it now, so I'd better think about it when I rest." Pan Zi said: "Yes, little third master, don't think about this, hurry up, even if the subway is so wide, we can't get down, and now the most important thing for us is to get to the third master as soon as possible." As soon as I thought about it, I immediately nodded, and I was not thinking about it, but at this moment, I heard the sound of a tree branch breaking in the forest behind me, and at the same time there seemed to be a continuous sound of the crown shaking and the leaves shaking, and I don't know what moved in the dense bushes.

As we came all the way, there was hardly any sound in the woods, and the sudden movement of this movement startled us all, and we all stopped and looked back.

The canopy of the trees was so dense that nothing could be seen except for the huge stone sculpture of a human-faced bird, and the sound slowly stopped. The woods soon regained that suffocating quiet.

We looked at each other, and this kind of movement was certainly not something that could be emitted by a small thing. It seems that there is not nothing in this forest.

Panzi picked up the snatch and motioned for us to prepare our weapons, stop talking, and get out of here quickly. We nodded, not daring to slack off any longer, and began to observe the movement around us and quickened our pace.

After walking two steps, suddenly the fat man sighed and said, "Wait! When we asked him what he was doing, he turned his head, pointed to the statue behind him, and asked, "Where was its face just now?" "When we looked at the stone carving, we saw that the face of the stone carving had turned around at some point, and the expressionless moss-covered face was facing us. Because it is half obscured by trees, it looks like an unknown creature hiding behind a tree and peeping.