Chapter Ninety-Four: The Underground Shrine
At that time, when a group of people first discovered this secret passage, they didn't know where it led, but the specifications of the secret passage were very large, and it seemed that it led to some extremely important place, and the group was doing archaeology, so naturally they would not let go of this opportunity, so they immediately followed this secret passage, and then entered the underground shrine.
The reason why it is called an underground shrine is for no other reason, because that place is the ruins of the ancient Huangchao Kingdom, that is, the underground where the goddess of snake and Mo was located at the beginning. As for the people of the ancient country of Huangchao, why they would respect the big snake as a god and repair the statue of the god to worship, it is unknown.
At that time, although everyone knew about the snake demon goddess, like us, they only thought it was a legend, and they did not expect that there would be a deity.
The underground shrine is an underground palace that has collapsed in a large area, and walking through it is like walking through a labyrinth, and the road will be broken from time to time. After going around for a long time, everyone found some dried corpses. Not one, but some, distributed in different places, and the most strange thing is that the clothes worn by these dried corpses turned out to be modern.
That was twenty years ago, and the dried corpses they saw at that time were still relatively fresh, with no corpse oil on them, and their clothes were clean, and they could look at all the items they were carrying.
Soon, the archaeological team was shocked to discover that this was actually a desert geological expedition team.
Geology and archaeology are common in some aspects, and they often need each other's help when they work with each other, so Chai Kuan still knows a little about the dynamics of geology. He remembered that he had heard before that a geological expedition had gone missing in Gurbantungut.
Could it be them?
Did they actually die in this place?
And the walrus tusks on Chai Kuan's body were found on the body of one of the corpses.
When I heard this, I couldn't help but interrupt the old man Chai Kuan's words, and couldn't help but say, "Are you sure you found it from a corpse?" "The results of Tan Jian's two deductions all point to one direction, that is, people are still alive.
Could it be that he was wrong in his deduction?
Even if it's wrong, it's too much of a coincidence?
Chai Kuan nodded, looking sane, not like he had misremembered.
Don't talk about me now, even Tan Jian frowned, revealing a puzzled look, and then, seeing Tan Jian think for a while, he asked Chai Kuan: "Do you recall, when you picked up the walrus tusk, was this thing hanging on the other party's neck, or was it placed elsewhere?" ”
Chai Kuan didn't remember it at all, and said: "It's pinched in his hand, I remember very clearly, when he found the corpse, he was very strange, curled up, as if he was hiding from something." With his left hand propped up on the ground and his right hand in front of his chest, he was holding such a thing in his hand. ”
The scene he described involuntarily appeared in my mind, and I felt a little familiar, and suddenly I thought, the dried corpse I found, when it died, didn't the same movements? The only difference is about one sitting and the other lying down.
Thinking about it this way, I can't help but guess: Could it be that the death of those people is also the kind of monster that is dissatisfied with the scales? Thinking so, I asked directly. Chai Kuan lowered his head slightly, most of his face was covered by hair and beard, he suddenly scratched his head and said, "Is there a blade, I shave my head, my body is full of lice." ”
The topic changed a little quickly, I looked, there were so many lice, just looking at it made me feel itchy, so I touched my nose and went to get a razor. Helping people shave their hair and beard in the middle of the night, this experience is about once in a lifetime, and after shaving Chai Kuan, I can't help but be impressed.
I saw that he had a bronze complexion, a well-proportioned body and muscles, and if I didn't look at that face, it was really hard to imagine that he was an old man, even if he was an old man, he was definitely a very attractive old man, and the old lady on the street would blush when he saw it.
After finishing it, he probably felt much more comfortable, touched his bald head and sighed, and said, "I heard you say on the road before, this year...... Is it 2012? In a blink of an eye, it has been more than 20 years...... "In fact, we all misunderstood Chai Kuan.
Chai Kuan is not old, when he entered Gurbantunggut, he was still a student with the team, and his teacher happened to be the dried corpse that I brought out. In other words, Chai Kuan is actually only in his forties, a few years younger than Wang Zehai, but the harsh living environment of the past twenty years has made his face look too old.
He began to answer the question I had asked earlier, and in a very serious manner, said, "I don't know if they were killed by that green monster, but I know how that scaly monster came from. "It's a snake man." After a pause, he continued, "The hell that the big snake made it. He began to tell us about a scene that he will never forget in his life. When exploring the entire underground shrine, everyone did not encounter any danger at first.
According to the instructions of the team leader, Professor Qiao, they mapped out a complete structural map according to the known underground shrine structure, and marked the core of the entire shrine.
After observing all the way, they faintly realized that this was probably a site somewhere in the Huangchao Ancient Kingdom, and what puzzled them the most was that after the Liuzi Kingdom recovered the Huangchao Ancient Kingdom, it did not destroy this underground shrine, but instead built such a secret passage directly to the shrine.
It can be seen that there must be some secret hidden in this.
This secret is likely to be hidden in the core of the underground shrine. That archaeological operation was originally to go to the ancient country of Huangchao, and now that there is such a major discovery, the attraction of the archaeological team is naturally great.
Therefore, the group immediately headed towards the core of the underground shrine.
Maybe the whole thing left Chai Kuan with too deep an impression, so he remembered every detail very clearly. There is nothing worth noticing in the middle process, and the real change is after everyone reaches the core.
There is a magical spring in that place.
In the pool of gold, countless white waves are surging.
At that time, Chai Kuan's first reaction was, was there groundwater connected to this?
It was a very shocking and peculiar scene. In a similar way, in the midst of a ruined underground temple, a round spring made of gold appeared, and clear water jumped from it. At that time, the group was covered in stinky sweat and tired, and at first glance, they wished they could jump down and take a few sips and take a shower.
However, when everyone approached the gold spring, they found that there was something coiled under the spring.
At first, it was a black shadow, and the specific image could not be seen, but soon, the black shadow stretched out and began to swim towards the water, and in an instant, a huge cyan snake head emerged from the water! It was definitely the largest snake that everyone had ever seen in their lives, and people stood in front of it and felt small.
And the green snake still has a pair of red eyes, the snake's head is slightly lowered, and the red eyes reveal an evil nature, staring directly at everyone.
What did the rest of the people feel at that time, Chai Kuan didn't see it, anyway, he was frightened and his heart stopped, the blood all over his body seemed to freeze, the whole person was cold from head to toe, and his legs trembled.
In the next second, the huge snake slammed into the person closest to the water's edge.
The person closest to the water's edge is called Ai Yongjun, this person is also a student, and his schoolwork has always been good, but he is a little unpleasant, he likes to be in the limelight in everything, and he often boasts that he is a descendant of ** Xinjueluo, but he changed his surname after the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of them changed their surnames to Jin, and a small number changed their surnames to Ai.
But don't say it, he's really a Manchu, but he's not really a prince and grandson, so it's not clear.
This person thinks a little despises Chai Kuan, Chai Kuan is the kind of typical phoenix flying out of the chicken nest, no one in the family knows how to read, his sisters and sisters have never read, the family sent him to school, and later became a student personally led by a famous archaeology professor in China, which is a great glory for the ancestors.
But Ai Yongjun looked down on people like Chai Kuan, and the two had a quarrel, he taught Chai Kuan a lesson: "People like you, if you don't go back to the countryside to farm, what are you going to do?" What kind of life and what kind of life, don't think I don't know, I can inquire clearly. Your brothers and sisters are all wearing trouser belts, just for you to come out with such a good head, are you ashamed? Can't you farm well, what are you fighting with me? Have you ever fought with me? At that time, the two were secretly competing for a place on the inspection.
At that time, Chai Kuan was mad at him, and the two had a fight, and the head was broken and bleeding, but he was afraid of demerits, so he didn't let the teacher know.
Speaking of this, Chai Kuan smiled bitterly and said, "Now that it has been twenty years in the blink of an eye, I think about it and find that what he said is really not wrong." My family has five children, two older brothers went out to work early to earn money to support the family, a sister and a younger sister have never studied, in order not to increase the burden on the family, they got married early, and the marriage was not good, my sister died in childbirth in the second year, and my sister married an alcoholic and was always beaten. They are all sacrificing for me, but I haven't repaid them a single penny...... I've been missing for twenty years, twenty years! Tears welled up in his eyes, and he hugged his head and cried suppressedly, without raising his head for a long time.