Chapter 33: Entering the Tower (Part II)

The pyramid is more than 100 meters high and is made of white ashlar. Each stone is three meters long and two meters high, and although it is not possible to see how wide it is, it should be between two and three meters wide in terms of length. The pyramid is a square with every side smooth, and only one side has a staircase leading to the top. Each step is made of white strips of stone three meters long, thirty centimeters wide, and thirty centimeters thick. There are so many white long stones that are not a little uneven at three meters, all of them are flat and neat, I really don't know how they came to find parallelism.

At the foot of the pyramid, there is a ground base about one meter high and five meters wide. Smooth white stones, neatly arranged. Every ten meters or so there is a white stone pillar with Mayan characters carved on it. I looked at Zhang Qiang, the little girl looked at the stone pillar with a pale face, and nodded gently. I know he's proving our doubts. It seems that there is something in it, but it is certainly not gold, silver and jewelry.

The tower is three stories high, and about 50 meters is one floor. Ascending to about fifty meters, there is a platform. Fifty meters or so up, there is another platform. These platforms are ring-shaped, and at each level up, the pyramid is smaller in a circle, and at the top of the most mysterious tower, there is a circular altar. Or an astronomical observatory. Outside the altar, there is a circle of strangely shaped statues, but most of them are mutilated, and it is impossible to see what they are.

In the face of these beautiful buildings, these sculptures of white stone pillars and something, I can't help but sigh secretly, no matter how glorious the civilization is, as long as the inheritance is broken. It will soon be buried by history and disappear in the long river of history. Leng Feng also muttered, "Not bad." It is indeed the architecture of the Mayans. It is different from the Egyptian pyramids, they are all this trapezoidal construction. Typical pyramids built by the Mayans. It's just that where these white stones were transported? There are not many in the Andes, and how did they get there? Could it really be that aliens flew in flying saucers? ”

How did they manage to do it when these white stones were so big and cut so flat? And how can the pyramids be neat and tidy, and how do they do this to parallel? This can really only be done with alien technical guidance. It is difficult to achieve such a level of technology today, let alone the Mayans thousands of years ago.

The people in the back couldn't help it for a long time, and a big man said: "No wonder you said that many people have already gone in, and I have been wondering, because you are lying to us." Now I know that at your speed, the turtle can run faster than you. Hurry up and get out of the way, let's go inside. Don't delay Lao Tzu's share of gold. With that, he pushed us away and rushed towards the stone platform above. The small expedition team behind also hurriedly followed, looking at their mocking eyes, we all subconsciously shook our heads, it seems. There is another batch of unjust souls.

On the stone platform below, you can clearly see the large hole in the upper pyramid. We shook our heads, these barbarians, just ruined this place. I'm afraid to enter it by force. It will activate all the mechanisms inside, and it will really become hell.

Gao Yanan looked at us with complicated eyes, and said softly, "Let's go." Let's go up. "We silently climbed the stairs, and everyone's feelings were very complicated. There must be more than 400 people in there now. I wonder how much is left now? There is a rope at the entrance of the cave that goes straight down. It turns out that coming in below is the right way. The architecture here is very big and strange. The outer body of the pyramid is trapezoidal and gets smaller the higher it goes. But inside it is a square building. It is separated from the outside wall by a distance of four or five meters. It's a fully enclosed building again, so you can only get to the first floor when you enter from here. If you want to go inside, you can only start over from the first floor.

Lu Liang looked at it and said, "One has opened a hole in the altar above, and is putting a rope down, and the other will be in there." Ye Manqing said with a smile: "Those statues above are so dilapidated, maybe someone has already entered from above." It hasn't come out for so long, think about it, what will happen inside? ”

Gao Yanan said, "Let's go down." "As a leader, you have to be more ruthless than ordinary people. Because one of your decisions will be related to the life and death of many people. Only a cold heart can have rational judgment. It's just that in a team composed of people who are very familiar with each other, the leader's work is very difficult, he will unconsciously consider the safety of the people around him, and will hesitate to worry about whether his decision is correct, and it is often this momentary hesitation that pushes everyone into a dangerous situation. If this continues, leaders will be even more constrained and afraid to make decisions. I have a deep feeling for all of this, and since Yu Tiangang handed over power, I feel that my white hair has grown. Now that Gao Yanan is in front, I can better grasp the timing of the decision, so that we will not fall into a dead situation.

Slowly slipping down the rope to the ground, we shone our flashlights around, and there was a tunnel in front of us that led straight inside. We are now using a seized flashlight, which can be used to replace the battery, so we don't need to be so economical. We had eight more flashlights with us, and we decided to keep them because we don't know what the situation was, but those flashlights were waterproof. Although the spare batteries of the seized flashlights were also sealed in plastic bags, the bulbs were bare. If the bulb is destroyed, the battery is useless.

Came to a fork in the road, and there was a stone tablet at the fork in the road with several large characters on it. We looked at Zhang Qiang and waited for her to explain it to us. Zhang Qiang pointed to the two words on the left and said, "This is heaven." As he spoke, he pointed to the two words on his right and said, "This is hell." "Huh? Heaven? Hell? Isn't that what Catholicism says? Except for Catholicism, there seems to be no other denomination that has a heavenly claim, right? It seems that there are many gods and immortals. The word 'heaven' is actually used here.

Leng Feng smiled: "You say, will Catholicism branch out from the teachings of the Mayans?" It's like a child who has left home and grown up outside. There is prosperity as well. Then the descendants of that child went on to fight in all directions and destroyed the place where he was born. Haha, that's irony. "Huh? We were all stunned by Leng Feng's statement, if this was true, it was really a great irony, a big joke.

All the texts of the Maya were destroyed in the hands of the Catholic Bishop Landa of the Juganton Peninsula, and in this way, the crystallization of science, astronomy, philosophy, system, knowledge, customs, etc., accumulated by the Maya for thousands of years, was all wiped out in that fire. What's even more outrageous is that Landa captured all the Mayan high priests everywhere and burned them alive. At this point, the Mayan civilization was finally cut off from the hands of Randa. Only those illiterate and culturally illiterate slaves survived, and the Mayan civilization became history overnight.

Someone once compared Qin Shi Huang's book-burning pit with Landa's behavior, which is a big fallacy. Qin Shi Huang's book burning was just to cover up something, but he did not destroy thousands of years of Chinese history, but only stripped history out for decades. However, Landa's behavior this time ruined the Mayan civilization that had been inherited for thousands of years.

I looked at the crowd and asked, "Where are we going?" Heaven or Hell? The crowd was silent, and no one knew how to answer. Now we are considering the age of the construction of this pyramid, which I have seen in our eyes, and there are not many traces of weathering at all. It's also about the woods outside, the cliffs outside, and the basalt magnetic field outside. Without the frequent touching of the wind, weathering would not have existed in the first place. Although there is heavy rain, it seems that there should be a relatively complete drainage system here. Maybe the moat is connected to the water system outside.

"You say, if a Catholic comes in and goes there?" Zhang Qian said softly. We all pouted and said in unison, "Cut, of course, it's heaven." "Huh? Heaven? I suddenly understood what Zhang Qian meant: "You mean ......" Zhang Qian nodded and said, "Yes, that's what it means." Leng Feng frowned and said, "But, if you say so, isn't this pyramid only more than four hundred years old?" ”

Ye Simin said: "Professor Shui, you check, will this place be renovated later?" I said approvingly, "Yes, you are on the point, there are indeed traces of transformation here." There are a lot of stones that have been taken down from the mountain wall outside, and the polishing is not smooth, and you can see it if you look closely. ”

Ye Manqing sighed and said, "They were all squinted by the treasure, how could they notice this." In this case, heaven is a trap, a tool of revenge for the Mayans, and we have only one choice, which is to go to hell. ”

Everyone nodded wordlessly, for the sake of now, the only way to go to hell is to go. Since it is hell, of course it is a very dangerous place. There is not much written about hell in the Mayan texts. There is no such thing as hell in the underworld of this, and hell was first seen in Buddhist scriptures, and there is a sentence from the King of Jizo Bodhisattva, who swore that hell is not empty and became famous as a Buddha. There is also Guanyin who travels to hell, saves suffering, and is famous for getting rid of the sea of suffering. In Chinese mythology, there are immortals, gods, and ghosts. The ghost lives in the underworld, and he is reincarnated for three years, and there is no such thing as hell. After Buddhism entered China in the Han Dynasty, there was a saying that doing good in this life is shameful in the next life, and doing evil in this life will go to hell.

Zhang Qiang said: "The saying of hell has its own version in all countries of the world, and there are many myths and stories that have the saying of hell, but it is unknown whether the Mayans are the same. Since there is a occurrence of the word here, one also has its own hellish standard. Just don't know how many layers there are? Isn't it like Buddhism says that there are eighteen layers? (To be continued......)