Chapter 57: Cretaceous Civilization
"Are you saying that this place was originally used for other purposes, and was used as a mausoleum?" I asked Yanqiu in a confirmatory manner.
Yan Qiu nodded and said: "I think this is the only possibility, no matter how old an underground building is, it is not a city for people to live in after all, there will be no endless construction, even if someone keeps using it, the internal buildings should be from the same era." The stelae were built by the users, and it seems to be a place of pilgrimage for prophets, who may have worshipped the six stars in the sky. ”
"Pilgrims just come here to take a spot, and don't renovate and build it?" Surina asked.
Yan Qiu continued: "The reason why it is called a pilgrimage site, in addition to the special meaning that we don't know, I'm afraid this ancient underground building is also one of the reasons, if it is renovated, then this ancient atmosphere and a number of years of tradition will also be destroyed? ”
"Can you tell when this so-called pilgrimage site was built?" The fat brother also came to ask.
Yan Qiu tirelessly continued to answer: "This is exactly the strange place, I am also a top student in archaeology, and I have participated in the visit and discussion of ancient Mayan ruins, but I can't judge the age here at all." Judging from the plate changes of that globe, it began in the Cretaceous period, that is, the era of the extinction of the dinosaurs, and if this civilization has started since then, then there are too many problems in it, and it is not even known whether it is related to the extinction of the dinosaurs. If the movement of the plates was only inferred by the ancients and not recorded, then it is also a mystery to what extent this faction's research institutions have developed to this day, and why they are not known to the world. ”
"Then who do you think is the grave here? And why would you do that? "I'm still confused.
"The reason is very simple, either I like the architectural style here, or I like the geographical environment here, it is definitely not because I am too lazy to repair the tomb, and the people who can occupy this place are either kings or emperors, maybe as the fat brother said, it is for this geographical location that can be traversed, so that you can live forever. Didn't Cao Cao also build his tomb under the tombs of the Shang Dynasty? Perhaps that's why. Yan Qiu answered my second question first.
Then he said: "According to my judgment, the refurbished parts, including the female corpse in the coffin we saw, are undoubtedly from the Yuan Dynasty. There are relatively few artifacts unearthed in the Yuan Dynasty, and I noticed the eggplant-shaped jewelry earrings that the woman buried with her, which is a craft handed down from the late Song Dynasty and the style of the Yuan Dynasty. There are also those other ornaments, all of which are gold hollow inlaid with jade, which is enough to prove ......" Speaking of this, Yan Qiu frowned.
Because I was staring at her intently, I noticed this detail, and I asked, "How?" Is there anything wrong? ”
Yan Qiu took a breath and said, "The strange thing is that the coffin is not a trapezoidal shape of the Yuan Dynasty, and the bronze mirror inlaid on it is not the craftsmanship of the Yuan Dynasty. ”
Su Rina's case-solving skills were used now, and she said: "This can be explained, judging from the rough polishing of the coffin, the stone originally existed, and it had long been inlaid with a bronze mirror, and it was cut into a coffin lid as a whole." Perhaps the mechanism that opened the door was not a coffin, but something else that was placed there, and the bronze mirror opened when it met wine. The opening method was known, and it was modified into a coffin according to the original design. ”
"No way, the image of the woman in the bronze mirror was definitely not painted later." Yan Qiu retorted.
Jiang Rou immediately said: "This just explains why the mechanism there was changed into a coffin, maybe the tomb owner was inspired by this, and found that the woman in the bronze mirror looked like the woman to be buried, so he simply buried her there, providence." ”
Su Rina smiled and touched the top of Jiang Rou's head sitting on the ground, indicating that she also had this idea.
"There's no need to discuss it, let's go back and see, won't we?" The fat brother said lightly.
I immediately expressed my incomprehension of the fat brother, and asked him suspiciously: "Go back and see?" You've got something wrong with your brain, right? We've walked so far, not to mention that we can't find the mouth that slipped down, and even if we do, do you really want to walk back and see? ”
The fat brother sneered and said to us: "Since you don't go back to see it, is there still any point in discussing whether it is a revised version of the coffin?" Then he changed to a tone of reprimand, saying, "If you don't find a way to open this door, we won't be able to go back until we go back." After speaking, the fat brother snatched the bag on my shoulder, took out the roasted rat meat from it, tore it in half, handed the other half to Jiang Li, and the two of them sat on the ground and ate it.
The fat brother's words reminded us that the discussion may be able to find some clues, but what can really guide us out is to keep walking, and now what is blocking us is the arched stone gate in front of us.
Everyone stopped discussing and began to study the stone gate in front of them.
The pattern on the stone gate is not exquisite, and I speculate that it must have been there originally, and it was not later decorated by the dove dwellers of the Yuan Dynasty.
Yan Qiu and Su Rina lay on the stone door, carefully groped according to the pattern pattern, and looked at it for a long time without any results.
Su Rina kicked the stone door in a rage, and some debris fell from it, and she said, "Maybe we really have to turn back, the door won't open, there is no switch at all, and there is no lock." ”
Yan Qiu observed for a while, and said in an uncertain tone: "The ambergris on this does not seem to be inlaid with it, it seems to be part of the stone gate. ”
I also sat next to the fat brother, grabbed a piece of barbecue, and looked up to listen to the analysis of the two of them while eating, Yan Qiu said this, I asked casually: "It's not inlaid, can it be natural?" ”
Yan Qiu was stunned for a moment, then gave me a blank look, expressing her strong dissatisfaction with me eating rat meat, and then said, "Do you remember that mine? It's like a pagoda, but it's actually a mining tool, at the very top of Dragon City. I suspect that this is the ambergris mine collected inside, and you see that the slag of this stone does not look like rocks, but rather like fossils of certain substances. ”
The fat brother's mouth was stuffed with meat and he didn't forget to answer: "I think it should be a dragon fecal fossil." ”
Jiang Li pushed the fat brother and said, "Can you not talk about excrement when eating?" Rain on someone's parade. After speaking, he broke a piece of meat and handed it to his sister.
The fat brother argued: "I'm right, you don't have to think about it to know that the ambergris is formed by the dragon's saliva, and the other things must be dragon feces, which are mixed together with perennial sediment and become an underground ambergris mine, and later those people in the city went to mine it." This must be one of the more beautiful pieces inside, and it was used as a stone gate. ”
When the fat brother said this, Yan Qiu must have believed it, and quickly wiped his hands on his clothes, and shouted with an embarrassed expression: "Disgusting." ”
I don't really believe in Fat Brother's statement, he has always been imaginative, never talks about evidence and logic, if you listen to Fat Brother's academic theories, you have to wash your ears.
"Is there really a dragon I don't know where the dragon dung came from?" I didn't have the heart to say it.
"Why not? Without dragons, what is this blue thing? What is the big nest we see? What are those scales inside? And what about those white dragon egg powders? The fat brother asked four rhetorical questions in a row.
In fact, I also took a rhetorical question in my heart, what were the two dragon spirits I saw when I was in the mirage? This animal in an ancient legend can't really exist, right? It is said that seeing is believing, so is what I see real? I can't be sure.
I took a hard bite of the barbecue and didn't debate with the fat guy again.
At this moment, Surina suddenly reached out and grabbed me.
I thought she was going to eat meat too, so I tore off a piece and sent it over.
Unexpectedly, Su Rina didn't take the meat, but grabbed my outstretched arm, and then pulled me up with force.
I was about to ask her what she was going to do.
Surina grabbed my wrist and reached for the stone door.
I knew that she wanted me to touch the stone door, so I quickly stopped her: "Oh, beauty, don't be like this, I eat, it's not gentlemanly to eat and touch feces." Alas, don't, alas, Sister Hong, aunt and grandmother ......"
Before I finished speaking, the palm of my hand had been pressed down on the stone door, and the meat in my hand had fallen to the ground, and I couldn't eat it without it, how could I eat my hand that had touched dragon dung?
Everyone was amused by Surina's jokes, as if they were happy to see me being teased.
But everyone's smiles only lasted two seconds, and then they all froze.
When I looked up, the stone door was lit up.