In the dense jungle of northern Cambodia, next to a river that winds through the jungle, a few Europeans have lit a fire in a nearby clearing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"We've been gone for three days, no! The night of the fourth day, to be exact. When will I see that lake? There is nothing here but dense jungle. Are you looking in the wrong direction? The one who spoke was a young man with long curly blond hair, a high nose and blue eyes, wearing a red mountaineering suit, and his skin was very white, which stood out in the black forest.

He was sitting on a mossy stone and cleaning the blood-sucking leeches from his calves - he had been walking along the river for three days straight, and these little creatures, known as Cambodia's number one vampire devil, had long been pervasive, silently clinging to his skin to feast on it......

At this time, a light-brown-skinned girl sitting next to him was taking out a notebook to write down some data. Then he said in a report-making tone: "Professor, according to the data of the compass and barometer, we are close to halfway up the mountain, and the slope of the distance we have traveled today has been rising, and if nothing else, we can see the summit tomorrow." ”

Not far away, a professor with glasses, half-gray hair, and a somewhat messy look was now carefully examining something next to a tall dipterocarp tree, and he had obviously heard the two students behind him, and put away the tape measure in his hand.

"We are in the right position now, the diameter of the dipterocarp trees within 3.3 meters on both sides of this river is significantly smaller than that of other trees beyond this distance, indicating that they are basically walking along this river." If my guess is correct, it is likely that the source of the river is a dammed lake - the sacred lake of the lotus flower recorded in the inscription! ”

Thinking of this, the professor became a little excited, and his brown pupils bloomed with an unconcealable light. And the two students behind him couldn't help but lift their spirits when they heard this. If this discovery is true, then this civilization created by the Khmer people will be written by them in a new chapter!

At this moment, the depths of the forest were quiet and terrifying, and in an instant, a lightning bolt streaked over the dense forest, and a thunderclap followed. This frightened them a lot, and at this time, a white man who looked like a soldier who was grilling fish by the fire immediately reacted and shouted to everyone: "It's going to rain hard, hurry up and enter the tent!" ”

Everyone hurriedly packed up their belongings and got into the tent that had been set up in advance. It was the rainy season in Cambodia, and it could rain at any time, so they set up their tents early. The only thing to worry about is how long this rain will fall, as their camp is right next to the river and flooding can break out at any moment......

The next morning, when the rain stopped, the air was filled with a light mist, the birds chirped in the dense forest, and the apparently rising water by the river mixed with dead leaves and mud flowed downstream. They continued towards the upper reaches of the river, and soon the tall primeval forests were replaced by dense clumps of shrubland. They didn't have time to sigh that they were about to see the sun they hadn't seen for a long time, and they saw that the bushes were all hanging in place, in fact, because they were too tired. Although it is said to be along the river, these small bushes are not fuel-efficient lamps, and it is not easy to break out of the road!

Unexpectedly, the Caucasian man who was opening the way in front of him snorted and then heard the sound of objects falling into the water, and the professor behind him was the first to notice and loudly told everyone to stay where they were and not move!

After a while, a faint voice came from below: "Everyone stop where you are, don't move, I've fallen into a pit, clean the bushes and leaves off my head." The group hurriedly and carefully cleared a hole in the place where the man had fallen, and it turned out that there was a large pit below, hidden by intertwined shrubs and vines, and the branches and leaves that had fallen over the years had transformed the area ahead into a natural trap, and if you were not careful, you would fall underwater. Luckily, it wasn't very deep down there, and there was water underneath, so the open-way man named Stern just fell into the water.

Seeing this, they immediately threw ropes and rescued Stern, and cleared a place in the forest for him to lie down. The girl immediately noticed that blood was oozing from his left leg pants, and without saying a word, he took out the first aid kit to bandage him, and the man told her to lighten it, because he felt that his leg might have been stabbed by a sharp thorn, and sure enough, when the girl pulled up his trouser leg, he found a sharp thorn the size of his middle finger pierced his left leg, bleeding profusely. Fortunately, he was born as a veteran special forces, otherwise ordinary people would just be afraid that it would be difficult to endure the severe pain.

"Sergeant Stern, did you notice what was going on down there when you fell under the pit?" The professor asked the girl when he was cleaning his wounds, mainly to distract him from the pain while bandaging and disinfecting him, and to know the following.

"Professor Morrill, I took a look down there, and it wasn't a pit, but I thought it was a boulder-built river, and it might be more than 60 meters wide, maybe even wider. Most of the bushes grow from the sides of the river, but in fact there is a wide open underneath. The river may be built very old and may be the remains of ancient man-made structures. The professor was thrilled when he heard about the ruins, this was the first time he had come into contact with man-made structures in so many days of being in the jungle! Although he knew that this would be found out sooner or later!

Now we have to determine the authenticity of this discovery, after all, there are bushes above, and light cannot penetrate at all, so it is possible that the ruins that Stern is talking about are also a rock - after all, he is only an American soldier.

Stern knew what the professor was thinking, and told him, "It's really too dark down there, so I'm not sure if it's a ruin." But I'm injured now that I'm too busy to go down to investigate, so I'll let Kansa go down with a wolf-eye flashlight and an infrared detector to explore the space below and it's safe. As he spoke, he took out a huge heavy military waterproof bag from his backpack. It was handed over to the young man named Kansa, a native of the Khmer, with dark skin and bright eyes. It was Stern who had been hired from Phnom Penh to open the road and carry some large luggage, and only followed him along the way, rarely speaking.

But Stern trusted him very much, and commanded him a few words in Khmer, Kansa was a little surprised, but he still responded in Khmer, and took the waterproof bag that Stefan handed him, and immediately went to get the climbing rope to find a large tree trunk and tie it up, and the movements were very skillful and neat.