Chapter Forty-Nine: The Hidden Corpse Pavilion
A single human-faced spider is not too difficult to deal with, but a swarm of bees or a few large ones are not too difficult to say. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe silk they spit out is as tough and sharp as a piano string when it comes into contact with the air, and it sharpens iron like clay.
Realizing that the situation was not in our favor, Ziche and I immediately turned back, and he quickly cleaned up the food scattered on the ground, and I put my arm on Qian's shoulder to shake her awake.
Qian Yan woke up in a daze, and when she saw my panicked look, she immediately woke up and quickly got up. After looking around vigilantly, he checked his bags efficiently and picked up his backpack and tied it tightly to his waist.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect or what, but I always feel that the strange cries of the human-faced spiders on the other side are getting closer and louder.
Regardless of whether it exploded or not, I hurriedly stuffed the small gas stove into my bag, grabbed my bow and arrows, put on my clothes, and walked in briskly without looking back.
In this tunnel, as I had previously judged, the second half of the passage was connected to limestone formations.
The surrounding rock walls, which were originally black and dirty, gradually transformed into a silver-white world like snowdrifts, shining like a dream. The lime wall also gradually extends from a concave and convex irregular shape to a boxy tunnel shape. It's as if someone is digging a tunnel in the deep snow and going on a polar expedition.
Unexpectedly, I just got rid of the extreme humidity, and then came to an extremely dry environment. Not long ago, I guessed that maybe it was due to the changes in the earth's crust, or because the lime environment was not good for spiders, but in short, those human-faced spiders did not appear.
But although the beauty here is empty, but the gas is really choking, the nose is clogged with dry powder, the three of us are constantly blowing our noses, Ziche actually coughed, he used a dagger to cut off a piece of his jacket and put it around his mouth and nose to act as a temporary mask. Ken and I looked at it and did the same, after all, it was really uncomfortable, and I thought to myself that if there was a next time, I should prepare a mask and throat lozenges in advance.
The three of us walked in this snow-white tunnel for about half an hour, and on the way, we also saw a few branch paths that passed by about one person, but we didn't know where it led.
"Hmm...... This lime passage looks like a specially opened mine!" Qian Yu suddenly spoke indistinctly, and the volume was very low.
"Mine Road?" Ziche turned his head to look at her and asked with a puzzled expression.
I was surprised and wanted to say that this guy had a rare question.
"Yes! I think the passage looks like it's been dug into a pit, but it's ...... Hmm......" She tilted her head, and didn't finish the rest of the sentence, I wonder if it was because she wasn't sure about speculation.
"Look." She replied as she grabbed a handful of her bare hands on the wall, then spread her hands out in front of us.
I was startled, thinking that she had some magical powers, and tried to grab it with my open hand. It turns out that it is not that the power of the food is infinite and can break the stone with bare hands, but that the surrounding silver-white lime walls seem to be hard, but in fact, the texture is very soft, and when you touch it with your hands, it is a lime sand wall at all.
Qian Cai rubbed the lime in his palm, trying to explore the texture of the lime with his fingertips, Ziche waited patiently with his hands on his chest, because of his height, and only a pair of ink pupils were exposed with his mouth and nose covered, giving people a condescending feeling.
In the end, Qian Cai actually twisted a little and put it in his mouth, saying, "The lime in it is very pure, and it has the value of mining."
"What? What do you want to do with lime?"
It is only known that lime has the advantage of being refractory, and some people use it as a building material, "Ah! By the way, the paper imperial tower on top! Its exterior is made of cotton paper and lime." It occurred to me that the hole in the wall of the imperial tower was filled with cotton wool and lime-like crumbs.
"Well, that's probably one of the uses. But if you look at the size of the passage, we've been walking for so long, so no matter how mushy the Imperial Mansion is, we don't need to use so much volume." Qian Yu looked at it and said.
"But what can this lime be used for? It's always useful to open a hole like this." Ziche silently pressed out the words.
Qian Yu bowed his head and pondered and replied, "I don't know about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but for now, lime can be used for food processing, medical supplies, etc., in short, there are many uses."
When it comes to medical supplies, there are only two words in my heart, embalming.
These white powders like snow are really a little stinging in my eyes after looking at them for a long time, I can't help but stop and rub my eyes, Ziche saw that I was uncomfortable and reached out and said that he wanted to help me press the acupuncture points near my eyes to see if it would be better. I didn't object, anyway, I usually stare at the computer for a long time at work, and I use my eyes too much, so it's good to be able to press through the eye acupoints, so I nodded at him.
Ziche didn't wake up, his palm was directly buckled to the back of my head, and his thumb applied force to the middle of the center of the eyebrows and the eye socket.
"!" I screamed, and for a moment all my nerves focused on my forehead, and the pain erupted in my brain. I pushed the cart away, covered my eyes and squatted on the ground.
"You're trying to kill me, you." I vigorously accuse.
He didn't care about the severity of his move, and he said in a tone that I was too weak, "Tsk, it will hurt to be effective."
"Fuck you."
I felt more dizzy by this press, and my snot was forced out by the pain, and I slowly stood up against the wall, but I vaguely felt the touch under the palm of my hand changed.
I reached for the wall, but I couldn't catch any lime powder, so I knocked on the wall, looked at Qian Yan and asked, "This wall is weird."
Qian Yan watched my actions and came up, and after a careful inspection, he threw a look at Ziche, Ziche didn't say anything but shrugged his shoulders and squatted down, letting Qian Cai step on his shoulders and stand her up directly.
Qian Yan held his hand on the wall and touched it all the way, "Xiao Ran, you dodge." As soon as she finished speaking, she took the ice axe and struck hard at it.
Suddenly, a crack slashed down from her breaking point, and pieces of white crystals burst out after being squeezed by the force. A tunnel paved with neat black stone slabs suddenly appeared in front of us.
It wasn't just the stone tunnel that surprised us, but the space inside made us stunned and dumbfounded.
The space after passing through the tunnel is very large, in the shape of a huge cylinder, like an ancient Roman arena built of blue and black stone slabs, but it is cool and shivering.
"Huh??" I hugged my chest and couldn't help but shiver, not because it was really cold but because of the cold atmosphere.
I took a closer look at this low-key and magnificent space, which, in addition to resembling the Colosseum, was somewhat similar to the design of Sweden's famous circular library, which was so high that you had to step on a ladder to go up and down.
Ziche and Qian Cai also opened their mouths, no sound, looking up at the layout of this space, the whole picture is really shocking, no one expected that behind this lime layer there would be such a magnificent Babel Pavilion.
From the ground to the top, there are more than a dozen layers, each of which is filled with small black holes, and from the middle of the circle it is radial, and a neat stone staircase leads to each step.
I kept looking, and suddenly I saw a word that was too familiar to me, I patted the arm of the sub-car, pointed to a place, and said, "Isn't the word engraved on the top not a towel?"
"Yes." He looked in the direction I was pointing and nodded in agreement.
We corresponded to other directions, except for the towel and other words, all of which appeared on the clay figurines in the Peach Blossom Garden. I remember that Qian Cai said that these words, like the inscription, have a similar function of signature, and are the names of those clay figurines and craftsmen.
I couldn't help but walk in the direction of the scarf area, stepped up a few steps, and looked around curiously, when I suddenly skimmed over the things placed in the cave next to me...... His pulse suddenly accelerated, and he took a deep breath, saying that if I had been before, I might have been scared silly......
"Come here." I pretended to be calm and shouted in the direction of the other two.
The two of them squeezed over, and then they were stunned when they saw the contents of the cave.
It took a few minutes for Qian Cai to regain her voice, looking incredulous, "This ...... Is that the ...... Woodcutter?"
"It seems so." I say.
Then Ziche and Qiancai climbed up to the other floors, and roughly glanced at the things placed in the cave, judging from Ziche's solemn expression, it should be all corpses.
What we found was a corpse pavilion that reached to the sky.