Chapter 31 The Steps of the Stone

"Hurry up, be on your guard, and be careful of the top of the boulder, there may be some monster lying on the boulder!" Stern suddenly appeared in front of the others with a panicked expression. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It turned out that when Stern was relieved, he suddenly saw a pair of green eyes that made him panic suddenly appear on the boulder in the distance, staring at him, thinking that it was the monster with huge green eyes under the banyan tree. He was worried that it might be some kind of man-eating monster, so he quickly turned back to tell the others, and casually asked Anne to give him the M16 rifle, this time he planned to preemptively install the infrared sight, and aim first. As soon as he said this, the others became nervous and quickly looked around at the top of the nearby boulder.

However, when everyone checked and saw that there were no monsters on the top of the boulder next to them, Anne asked Stern, "We didn't see anything on the boulder, where did you see it?" ”

"Footsteps, come with me, I saw it in that place." Holding M16 in his hand, Stern pointed to the boulder across from him, leaning closely behind the boulder he was on, peeking forward, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, he beckoned the others to follow along. In this way, Stern led the professor and them to the boulder where they had seen the green eyes before. He first looked up and down, left and right to see if there were any monsters on the boulder around him, then leaned back against a boulder, and then took out a telescope with one hand to aim at the approximate position, and then little by little he went out to check the top of the boulder in the distance one by one-

"What's that... A giant bird? Stern muttered to himself with the binoculars, his tone becoming a little suspicious from the beginning of his slightly cautious tone.

The people in the back were a little nervous and a little scared by his words, and then they couldn't help but want to see what it was.

β€œShit! It's like a statue! And more than one! Stern relaxed, feeling a sense of relief.

When the professor in the back heard the statue, he immediately became excited, and immediately took the telescope in Stern's hand and leaned out to take a look. As the telescope kept adjusting, the professor finally saw the statue with green eyes in Stern's mouth: a bird-like humanoid statue with flowing gold and bronze color all over its body standing on a boulder. The reason why it is said to be a bird-like human form is because although this statue has the outline of a human, it has a beak and mouth of an eagle that protrudes forward in most proportions, and the face has no other features except for two slightly raised green eyes, the head is a raised pointed crown, the hands are half raised in the air, the arms are extended with wide wings, and the trunk and lower limbs are humanoid, but the feet have become eagle claws. Dozens of identical bird-like humanoid statues stretched farther afield.

"That's Jieludi! It is a giant mythical bird recorded in ancient Indian myths and legends, and is the mount of Vishnu, one of the three main gods in Hinduism! I'm going to go check it out! The professor threw down a sentence and strode away, his excitement uncontrollable, and in a moment he disappeared into the boulder.

"This damn scientist! You don't look at what this place is! Stern saw the out-of-control professor again, and cursed to himself. I had no choice but to follow the professor's steps to the front while being vigilant about the surroundings. Anne and Donnie just followed.

When Stern led everyone to the right through the last boulder in front of him, his eyes suddenly opened up, and there was no boulder standing in front of him to block the view, but it became a boulder staircase more than ten meters wide, on both sides of which were all kinds of tall rainforest trees surrounded by both sides of the steps, growing lush and green, and a large number of aerial root hanging vines unscrupulously occupied the ground space that originally belonged to the steps, making the light very dim. Stern walked to the stairs and found that these dark black boulders were thigh-high, and there were about thirty-three boulders laid up one by one, and the boulder steps were very steep, and he looked up to see that they were at least thirty meters high. There was a bright glow at the top of the steps, as if it had reached the edge of the rainforest.

When Stern noticed both sides, he saw the professor standing under a statue on the left, that was the statue they had seen in Stonehenge before, these statues were separated into two columns and stood on the left and right sides of each stone step, each of them was more than a person tall on the boulder, very powerful, staring ahead with turquoise eyes, very sacrosanct.

"No wonder I saw that those green eyes were on top of a boulder, they were all so tall." Stern approached the statue in front of the professor to observe.

"Oh my God! It's all made of gold. There are also gemstones of various colors on it! This is a priceless look! Donnie looked at the golden bronze statues in front of him, which contrasted with the dark surroundings, and felt a sense of excitement that he had discovered the treasure

"No, it's supposed to be a gilded bronze statue." Anne responded. She looked at it carefully for a moment, and then said:

Although a small part of the statue has been mottled and oxidized to a patina, you can still vaguely see the glow of the whole body of the statue when it was just completed. Not to mention that this may be thousands of years old, just the ruby crown on the head, the egg-sized emerald set in the eye socket to make the eye, and the various gems cast on the chest are priceless! ”

Women can't take their eyes off this rare and precious stone, even Anne. But she delved a little deeper, and she continued: "These beautiful gemstones are only more valuable when they are created with a unique process." In particular, the pair of curved emerald inlaid eyes have a wonderful cat's eye effect because of the fine polishing, and under the irradiation of scattered light, they are like a pair of vivid eyes. ”

Stern said, "The first time I saw it, I thought it was some monster's eye staring at me, but it turned out to be the eye made of this gem!" However, I've heard that gemstones are not all very small? You see that on both sides there are statues of Jieludi, so how many gems do you have to use to make so many statues, these brahmins are so rich? ”

Anne also did not believe that these brahmins could use so many precious stones in this place, so she approached the statue and looked up to take a closer look, and then it dawned on her: "Precious stones are not all precious, and the ornament carved on the chest of the statue is made of very ordinary gemstones." And the emerald used to make those eyes, I guess it's an ordinary emerald cat's eye, but the craftsmanship they created is better. ”

Under the influence of the Indian Brahmins, the ancient Khmer people should have formed a hierarchical value with the most noble head, followed by the shoulders, lower limbs, and feet, that is, the caste system brought about by the Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent. So don't look at the ruby on the top of its head, it's just a small one, not very eye-catching, but if you want to put it in our modern jewelry market, its value is definitely the highest in the whole statue. ”

After the professor finished speaking, everyone paid attention to a small and inconspicuous ruby, which was set off by the golden golden pagoda-shaped crown, and the rhombohedral ruby with a large fingernail lid showed a color like pigeon's blood, which was very bright. However, because she did not receive sunlight, it did not stand out, but Anne immediately turned on a flashlight and shone it on the ruby, and in an instant the ruby reflected a brilliant red fluorescence, which attracted everyone's attention at once.

At this moment, when everyone was still lingering on this very exquisite bronze jewel statue of Jieludi, Kansa, who was standing behind, suddenly knelt down with a plop and folded his hands, reciting the words with a reverent face.