Chapter 123: The Reservoir
I immediately lost my balance and fell off with a grunt. At the moment of falling, I shone the flashlight in my hand downward, but it was this hurried glance that made me feel a little prepared.
It's not that high from the ground below, and while I can't land as handsome as Wenmo, it's at least not too embarrassing.
After landing, I found that the ground I was standing on was fairly flat, and it was concave downward, and there was a small hole in the middle of the depression, about forty centimeters in diameter, and it was pitch black inside, and I couldn't see the bottom at all. There are also stone fences on all sides of this area. Then I realized that my position seemed to be a cistern, and the hole in the middle should be the drain.
Presumably it must have been blocked by something in the first place. This shows that there is also a complete water supply and drainage system underground. It seems that this is the core area of the Hades in the past.
The so-called core area is the place where the upper class of the ethnic tribes lived at that time, or the place of totem worship and worship and worship. At that time, the level of engineering technology was not very high, so it was not easy to build such a system, and not everyone could enjoy it. Those civilians back then probably still lived in the jungle on the ground.
I looked up and saw that the crack I had fallen from was right above the pool. From there, the water fell and flowed into the cistern for the people of the time to take it. Looking at the current layout, this should have been the case at that time.
At this point, I don't think much about it, there's a moving human head in the crack above! I quickly jumped out of the fence and left the cistern. Who knows if that human head will jump off on its own!
This thought of mine, if it was put outside, others would definitely think that I was insane, but just now it happened alive in front of my eyes.
I looked around and saw that it was very spacious, especially the top part was very tall. It seems that this place must have been carved on the basis of cracks in the mountain, which has been artificially processed and repaired. Fujimen Mountain and its vicinity are full of underground cavities and fissures, which we have deeply experienced as early as when we went up the mountain, and these should also be related to the diversion of the underground river, and the ancients probably also took advantage of this to build such a large passage underground.
I looked at both sides of the passage, and combined with the path I had traveled through the chasm, I roughly deduced a direction to continue inward.
In fact, the direction is not particularly important at this time, because there are nothing more than two possibilities, one is that I judged correctly, and if I continue to go deeper, I will be with the second uncle and the Lantern Festival. The second is to guess wrong, if it is not the direction of continuing inward, it is the direction of going out, and it is good to be able to go out!
At this time, in my heart, the most worrying thing is the safety of the second uncle, I don't believe that they all had an accident in the explosion just now, but even if any of them have an accident, it is difficult for me to accept!
As I was thinking, all of a sudden, I heard a thud behind me, and I quickly turned my head to see that the head had followed again.
I've seen it several times, and I'm probably used to it, and of course I'm not so scared, so I raised my gun and was going to shoot him again, but before I could pull the trigger. The man's head fell to the ground and his bones fell a few times, and it was a coincidence that he rolled to the hole in the middle, and fell down at once!
What scared me half to death now seems funny. Watching the head fall into the drain, I thought to myself: I'm glad this place is no longer needed, otherwise I'm really worried that the head will block the waterway, and I have a big leather poke in my mind.
The threat of the human head has finally disappeared, and although it has disappeared so nonsensically, it has not affected the eerie atmosphere here.
At this point, I took a closer look at the cistern again, and the stone slab enclosure was relatively simple, with some faint patterns on it. The bottom of the pool is relatively smooth, probably because it has been washed by the water for many years, so it is not surprising that this effect occurs. However, I also thought that one of my own ideas just now seems to be inaccurate, it is obvious that when the ancient ancestors built the passage here, there was still water in the cracks in these stone walls, which probably means that the hidden waterway in the mountain here has gradually disappeared after a long process.
If so, I suspect that the lime wall that blocked the cracks above was also built there after the waterway dried up! As for the reason, I can only speculate that the time may have been after the water source disappeared, and some strange changes occurred in the original watercourse. As for what the change is, perhaps the moving human head is a manifestation.
I moved the aperture of the flashlight upwards, and suddenly I saw a carving inlaid between the enclosure of the pool and the crack in the cliff wall. He looks like a half-grown teenager, but he has two small raised horns on his head, which looks like a little demon in Western mythology. But I know that this has nothing to do with Western culture, because when the ancient ancestors excavated here, Westerners were probably still living a wild life of hairy and blood-drinking!
The young man in the sculpture is curled up, as if there is a kind of helplessness and sadness!
I felt a little uncomfortable when I saw it, but what kind of meaning is this carving trying to express? I thought about it for a while, but I didn't have a clue, so I turned around and continued walking.
From time to time, there are signs of human activity on both sides of the passage, such as broken clay pots, rudimentary stone tables, and other tools, and even some rotten metal objects.
Along the way, I saw a lot of cisterns like the one I had just seen. There was a crack on each of them, similar to what I had just estimated, some were sealed with lime, some were not, but there was another situation that made me feel uneasy, I saw that some of the lime walls were also broken, and I wondered if it would be the same as what happened to me just now.
Every time I see such a situation, I will subconsciously check to see if there are any heads in the pool!
Of course, as I just saw, there was a carving on the stone wall inside the cistern, and to my surprise, these carvings were completely different, some were large, some were small, some were teenagers, some were young, and some were close to adults! Was the carving so casual? It's a bit of a conscious plot of modern personality art!
I kept moving forward, and after a turn, I suddenly felt a cool breeze!
This sudden situation made me shudder. Could it be that there are other exits here, otherwise how could there be air flowing? However, when I think about it, this is not necessarily the case, and in some ancient tombs, although it is closed, you can still feel the wind blowing through it. No one can explain such a thing, and I haven't found an answer to it so far, so the seniors in the inverted bucket industry call this situation a ghost panting!
I also heard the second uncle say that although the ghost panting sounds a little scary, it is actually not dangerous, just panting, it can't really make people gasp to death!
I smelled a strange smell in the moving air, a little fishy, but it was very inconspicuous, and it was very unpleasant. Sensual displeasure will lead to mental tension.
As I walked, when I passed another cistern, suddenly, on the stone wall next to me, there was a "bang", I was not prepared to be taken aback immediately, and quickly turned my head to look, and found that there was a crack above the cistern, which looked bigger than the one I was in just now, and the exit of the crack was also blocked by lime, and the sound just now came from behind the lime!
Because of my own horrific experience, I suddenly became alert, clenched the gun in my hand, and stared at the place. As the lime blocking the exit of the crack shook, it was suddenly smashed into a hole. Then a man's head came out!
Although I was mentally prepared in advance, I still couldn't help but feel a pang in my heart, and what was even more terrifying was that this person had long hair on his head, and the hair was completely blocked in front of his face, which reminded me of the Sadako who crawled out of the TV in "Midnight Bell"!
I felt my scalp tingle, and I suddenly raised the gun and wanted to shoot, but at this moment, the human head suddenly raised, opened its mouth in amazement and said, "Who?" Who's there? ”
I was taken aback, I didn't expect this human head to speak, and then suddenly came back to my senses, this is a person, and it's a woman, I was simply frightened, and now I suddenly realized, this is clearly Anado!
I hurriedly put down the gun in my hand, and I was afraid that if I had shaken my hand and pulled the trigger, the consequences would be unimaginable! Think that if Anado dies at my hands, then I will live in the shadow of self-blame forever for the rest of my life. Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on my forehead!
I settled down, quickly walked to the bottom of the rift, and looked up, "Is that you?" Sister? ”
Anador nodded, "It's me, you're Zhuoran?" ”
I quickly replied, "Yes, it's me!" Be careful, you're a little far from the ground, be careful and jump, I'll catch you below! ”
Anado's state didn't look very good, it looked like she was still in a trance, she reached out and touched the air all of a sudden, her body shook and almost fell down, and she couldn't help but scream. But even though it's much better than me, I've basically stumbled.
I held Anado, who had jumped down, from below, and I asked her if she was okay. She shook her head, looked at me, and asked strangely, "Why are you sweating so much, is it hot here?" ”