At first glance, seeing the things on the stone platform in the center of the stone room, Chen Ziyang had an illusion, he felt that he was not in the Bohai Palace, but returned to the tomb of Li Zhuo of the Eastern Dynasty, because what was displayed in front of him was the kind of phoenix crown that he had seen in the tomb of Li Zhuo of the Eastern Dynasty before.

It's just that the phoenix crown in front of him is different from the kind of phoenix crown I saw in Li Yan's tomb before, these phoenix crowns in front of him are not one, not several, but a large cluster. More than a dozen phoenix crowns are gathered together, and the smallest of each phoenix crown is six or seven meters high, and the highest is even nearly ten meters.

Each phoenix crown is very thick, the thickest one is estimated to be hugged by two or three people to be able to hold it, even if it is the thinnest phoenix crown, Chen Ziyang felt that its circumference was at least about one meter after visual inspection. In terms of size, the phoenix crown more than a foot long in Li Zhuo's tomb is like a great-grandson meeting his grandfather compared to them.

This large cluster of phoenix crowns are all dark red, red and even a little black, on these phoenix crowns, there is a trace of red mist slowly seeping out, and then these fog slowly drift downward, condensed in the lower part of the phoenix crown, it seems that the red mist is emitted from these phoenix crowns.

The two pathfinders found that the platform in front of them was relatively safe after the red mist had cleared, so they groped their way over and continued to observe the back of the platform. Chen Ziyang and Xiao Na glanced at each other, maybe other people didn't know what these things in front of them meant, but the three civil engineers who had experienced the incident of Li Yu's tomb and Xiao Na knew the preciousness of these things in front of them.

Just a small phoenix crown that was one foot high before made the Eastern Dynasty country at any cost, and even took more than 200 lives, and in the end, it may not have been obtained. If they were to see the large cluster of phoenix crowns in front of them, I don't know how crazy they would be.

Chen Ziyang and Xiao Na couldn't wait to walk across the stone bridge and come to the central square, carefully looking at what surprised them in front of them. This is the first time Chen Ziyang has observed this kind of phoenix crown at close range, when he was in the Eastern Dynasty Kingdom before, he didn't even look at that phoenix crown a few times, and the people in the Eastern Dynasty Kingdom did not give him this opportunity at all.

The same is true for Xiao Na, at that time her identity was even more humble, just a translator, even worse than Chen Ziyang, although she was also very interested in that thing at the time, but there was never a way to get close, and the large cluster of phoenix crowns in front of her made the hearts of the two people appear irrepressible joy at the same time.

These phoenix crowns are very thick and look a little shriveled, and the phoenix crowns are covered with dense small holes one after another, and those red mist seeps out of these holes. Chen Ziyang's gaze moved down with a trace of red mist, until he saw the roots of these phoenix crowns.

It is only now that Chen Ziyang can be 100% sure that the so-called phoenix crown in the legend is actually a plant. Because Chen Ziyang clearly saw that at the bottom of these phoenix crowns, there were many pink thick roots sticking out, although most of these roots were rooted in the nearby soil, but a small part was still exposed, and it was very intuitive to see that these roots were connected to these phoenix crowns.

This discovery aroused Chen Ziyang's interest, and he squatted down and carefully looked at the dirt under the phoenix crown, while scanning the surrounding environment. It turns out that on the stone platform in the center of this stone room, there is nearly half of the area, and there is a huge flower bed, and the flower bed is full of this red soil, and these phoenix crowns grow on the soil.

At the same time, on the other ground without these dirt, there were a lot of things like manhole covers, and Chen Ziyang estimated that these things were the mechanism channels that had been opened before and sucked away those red mist.

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Ziyang had a bold idea, could these passages be connected to the room where all kinds of rare beasts are bred in the entire underground palace, and the reason why these rare beasts can survive without eating food for so many years, and at the same time can grow very huge, is probably related to these red smoke emitted by the phoenix crown.

Chen Ziyang glanced at it roughly, there were at least twenty such manhole cover-type mechanisms on the ground, could it be that the huge creatures in this dungeon were not only the human-faced bat and the alligator gar they saw. After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ziyang felt that his idea was very reasonable, in fact, they had only walked through a very small part of the entire dungeon, and if those rotating passages were also added, in fact, the area of this underground world was still very large.

And because he cracked the rotating channel mechanism in time, so the team did not take the wrong road, if in each fork of the channel mechanism, there is a behemoth as a means of anti-theft, then the number of these manhole cover mechanisms will also make sense.

At the same time, Chen Ziyang carefully recalled the red mist he saw in the alligator gar's pool, whether it was the volume or density of the red mist, the red mist in the alligator gar's waterhole was incomparable with the red mist that was sucked away just now, so it can be seen that the red mist seen there should only be a small part of the total amount.

Wiping the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, Chen Ziyang exclaimed that he was lucky, if he hadn't cracked the revolving channel, the ghost knew what the whole team would have experienced, maybe before he saw this phoenix crown, the whole team would have become food for those strange beasts.

Xiao Nana's method of studying the phoenix crown was obviously much more direct and effective than Chen Ziyang's, and Xiao Na took out several empty bottles from her pocket, which were flat rectangular, like a small wine jug. It is estimated that the bottles were designed to look like this for ease of carrying.

Xiao Na placed one of the bottles in a crack in the phoenix crown, where the red smoke slowly flowed down, and when the bottle was filled with red smoke, Xiao Na carefully screwed the lid of the bottle on.

Immediately after, Xiao Na took out another knife, cut a small piece on these phoenix crowns, and stuffed them into an empty bottle, and cut off a section of the root of these phoenix crowns, which was also placed in the bottle, and in the last bottle, Xiao Na filled it with these crimson soil under the phoenix crowns.

Seeing what Xiao Na did, Chen Ziyang admired it, this sampling is really comprehensive, very detailed, don't look at Xiao Na's samples are very few, but they are the most critical things. If these things are studied and understood by her, she can even reproduce the phoenix crown out of thin air, which is much better than directly cutting down this huge phoenix crown and bringing it back.

Just as Chen Ziyang carefully watched Xiao Na collect samples, he suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with the soil under the phoenix crown. Chen Ziyang looked over carefully, and when Xiao Na cut off a section of the root system of these phoenix crowns just now, something seemed to be exposed under the red soil she had opened.

asked the umbrella Shishuai for a sapper shovel, Chen Ziyang carefully pulled the sapper shovel in that place, and then went down a few shovels, and the things dug out surprised Chen Ziyang. In the soil next to the root system where Xiao Na had just collected the sample, Chen Ziyang unexpectedly dug up a person's skull and skull.

Seeing what Chen Ziyang dug out of the soil, Xiao Na's eyes widened, and she quickly leaned down, observed carefully, and lit up Chen Ziyang with the flashlight in her hand. The crimson soil where the phoenix crests are kept looks loose, but it takes a lot of effort to dig them up.

The soil is full of stickiness, as if the soil has been glued and then put back into the soil. The soil is very soft, but it takes a lot of strength to separate a clod of soil from it, Chen Ziyang just dug for a short while, and then he was tired and sweaty, and then Umbrella Shishuai took over the sapper shovel in his hand and helped him to work, just a few minutes of work, Umbrella Shishuai dug out something, so that several people showed surprised expressions.

In the few feet of the square area dug up by Umbrella Shishuai, four people's skulls, more than a dozen people's ribs, and seven or eight people's thigh bones were dug up. Chen Ziyang looked carefully, the more he dug down, the more bones there were in the soil, and the less soil there was.

It is no wonder that many of the roots of these phoenix crowns are exposed to the outside, in fact, it is not that the phoenix crowns have grown taller and brought out the roots, but because the corpse has rotted, causing the soil layer to decline, so these roots are exposed to the outside. But because of the sticky nature of the soil, the soil is connected to each other, covering the top of the bone shelf, and does not completely penetrate into the crevices below.

Pinched up a small piece of soil, Chen Ziyang put it under his nose and sniffed it carefully, and there was a strong smell of blood in the soil. Chen Ziyang threw away the soil, clapped his hands, and analyzed carefully.

Originally, Chen Ziyang thought that the reason why there was a smell of blood in the soil was because the red mist secreted by these phoenix crowns flowed downward, and they all gathered on the surface of these soils, and then when those organs were opened, they would be sucked to other places. So this perennial infiltration has allowed the smell of blood in the red mist to enter the soil.

But after seeing the many human bones below, Chen Ziyang had another idea, he felt that the reason why these soils had such a strong smell of blood, and why they were so sticky, was completely because the soil was soaked in the blood in the corpses below for a long time.

After a while, a faint layer of red mist was re-condensed on the surface of these soils, because he was afraid that these red mist would harm the human body, Chen Ziyang did not take off the gas mask, he used a finger to gently rotate on top of these red mist, and the air flow driven by the finger made the red mist form a small pillar of smoke, which was thick below and thin at the top, and slowly rotated with the rotation of Chen Ziyang's fingers.

While turning his fingers, Chen Ziyang recalled the scene when he saw the phoenix crown in Li Zhuo's tomb, Li Zhuo's tomb also smelled of blood, before Chen Ziyang judged that the bloody smell came from the phoenix crown, and the blood corpses in the tomb were very yearning for the smell of the phoenix crown, and when the phoenix crown was taken out of the coffin, it immediately attracted a large number of brain-eating insects and blood corpses.

Now in this Bohai Palace, these red mist are also very attractive to those huge monsters in the underground palace. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly got up and said to Xiao Na:

"Do you still remember the attraction of the phoenix crown in Li Zhuo's tomb to those bloody corpses, let's hold on tightly, don't dream too much at night, such a strong smell, maybe it will really attract something."

Xiao Na also nodded, anyway, now that the sample has been taken, although such a big phoenix crown is a treasure, it can't be brought out by these few people, so it's better to hurry up and complete the goal of this mission. And just when Xiao Na finished discussing with Chen Ziyang, she also happened to hear the voice of the team member calling her.

"Captain Xiao, come over here and take a look." It was one of the two soldiers who had explored the front of the group before, and after exploring the round platform in the middle, the two soldiers turned to the direction of continuing to advance, and continued to scout there, because they saw that Xiao Na was very interested in the red plant, so the two of them did not disturb him.

Seeing that Xiao Na was idle at this moment, the two of them couldn't wait to call Xiao Na over. Walking to the side of the two team members, Xiao Na followed the flashlight of the two team members, and on the other side of the huge stone platform where the phoenix crown was planted in the entire stone room, there was still a stone bridge that was exactly the same as before.

The stone bridge is about the same length as the previous one, and a semicircular stone platform is connected to the front of the stone bridge. The stone platform was exactly the same size as the semicircular stone platform they had been on. If you look down from the sky, in the whole circular space, there are two semi-circular stone platforms, a huge circular stone platform in the middle, and two thin stone bridges, which form a dumbbell-shaped ground, and the rest of the place is a bottomless abyss.

Originally, there was nothing strange about a stone platform opposite, but what surprised Xiao Na the most was the things on the stone platform. Under the light of the flashlights of the two team members, Xiao Na saw rows of neatly arranged huge boxes stacked on the stone platform opposite.

Although it is not very clear from a distance of sixty or seventy meters, Xiao Na can see that these boxes are very huge, and at the same time, the boxes are also locked, and these boxes are of different shapes and materials, some are wooden boxes, some seem to be iron boxes, and some seem to be heavy copper boxes.

And one of the wooden boxes, probably because of the age, or the previous handling was bumped, the corner of the wooden box has been cracked, under the light of the flashlight, the cracked part of the box reflects a trace of golden light, it looks like it is filled with gold.

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