Chen Lei had purchased all the diving equipment, it was already the fifth day of our arrival in Qingdao, and I joked that counting our drive, it would take about ten days, and if his uncle hadn't come ashore, he would have either drowned or turned into zongzi. Chen Lei could only smile bitterly.

The time we picked was half past four in the morning, when most of the travelers were still sleeping in hotels, and those who came out to run taxis also stopped on the side of the road to rest.

There are a lot of things to bring with you for diving, and due to the consideration of depth, buoyancy compensation vests, breathing regulators, wetsuits, tanks, and masks are all necessary. Each of us carried a waterproof bag containing food, water, an archaeological shovel, a dagger, a sig-sauer pistol, and Chen Lei also took the AS50 with him. I was not used to guns, so I brought a compound bow and twenty arrows.

In case of deep-water creatures, we even have a Rubber Shark Gun.

At this time, the sky was not yet fully bright, and it was overcast, and after a while after entering the water, I felt that the sea water was a little cold, and I shone into the depths with the help of searchlights. Soon, a gray-blue but well-defined underwater world appeared in front of my eyes. I paddled my feet and began to swim forward.

After swimming forward for about ten minutes, I estimated that I should be nearly six or seven hundred meters away from the shore, and the headlamp of Bei Xixi in front of me suddenly flashed, which was the code we had agreed on - there was a discovery.

Chen Lei and I swam forward, only to see that Bei Xixi had reached out and dragged something over - it was a rattan, soaked in the seawater.

I see what this means – this is under the sea, and there are very few plants other than aquatic weeds, and this kind of vine can only be found in tropical rainforest landscapes.

We continued to swim forward and within a few minutes we saw several more vines.

I think of the "country of Fuso", could it be that thousands of years ago this place was once land, full of rainforest vegetation? That can be regarded as a great discovery in the archaeological field and even botany, you must know that this is a temperate zone, and the appearance of tropical landscapes is simply a miracle of nature.

And then again, what about Mexico? In my opinion, although it was impossible to cross the Pacific Ocean in ancient times, it was possible to take the Bering Strait. It took more than a decade after arriving in the Americas to establish a Fuso state in Mexico.

Shaking my head, I thought to myself that this is underwater, and if my head turns too fast and consumes too much oxygen, I will burp.

As the depth of our dive increased, I felt a panic in my heart for no reason, I knew that this was a natural reaction of people, under normal circumstances, people can hold their breath for a while without oxygen, but if they see the oxygen light go out underwater, they may be directly psychologically suffocated.

The offshore sea is not too deep, but it is five or six hundred meters, and there is only darkness beyond the scope of the light, as if the universe had begun, and we are suspended in the middle of the empty world.

As we swam along, a huge ravine suddenly appeared in front of us, roughly estimated to be more than a thousand meters long, and searchlights could not reach its bottom.

There is no doubt that this is where we are going, or at least we are very close to it. On both sides of the ravine, the steep cliffs are overgrown with trees, at least more than ten meters high, and the vines are densely entangled, and the few bare rock walls are also covered with flowers and plants.

The plants didn't look like they were dead, their rhizomes were very thick, and there were animal bones and bird carcasses hanging from them.

We accelerated our dive, the ravine was not deep, only about forty meters deep, the bottom was very flat, I felt the marks on the ground, and thought that this was a river valley area before, and the traces of the river flow were clearly visible from the ground.

Strangely, there were some stone tablets scattered at the bottom of the valley, carved with some words that I couldn't read, not only could I not read, but I was also very confused when I saw Bei Xixi's expression through the mask. They are different from those ancient texts found in archaeology, these characters are written vigorously and powerfully, each stroke is angular, and the structure is extremely simple, but the lines are simple and sharp, like a beast of prey.

There were not only words on the stele, but also carvings—goosebumps all over my body instantly rose, damn it, twelve steles, twelve different carvings! I saw a familiar image -- "There is a god in the West Sea, a human face and a bird body, two green snakes, and two red snakes, and the name is Gongzi." ”

Twelve ancestral witches, twelve stone tablets! It seems that this is not just the domain of one tribe, but the common possession of twelve tribes.

It took me a while to calm down, and I turned around and was about to beckon Bei Xixi and Chen Lei to continue walking, but I found that in the sea area in front of me, my lamp was on, and there was no light in the rest of the place!

The heart that had just calmed down was raised again, and I felt a panic in my heart for no reason - well, there is a reason, that is, two living people disappeared in a few tens of seconds of your daze!

I swam around the twelve stone monuments, but I didn't find half a figure, and I didn't see any traces of the fight, or anything that might have been lost, which means that Chen Lei and Pei Xixi disappeared in a completely natural state! What are you kidding!

I felt around the stele again, and found that there was really no mechanism, so where would the two of them go?

The panic in my heart grew stronger, and I forced myself to slow down my breathing and calm down, otherwise it would be fun to accidentally overuse oxygen.

It was while I forced myself to calm down that I noticed something out of the ordinary.

There seems to be something else in the valley besides the stone monument.

Peeling back the densely tangled vines in the rainforest, I was amazed to see a pile of white flowers that looked like skins—snake moults. I carefully took a branch and flicked it, and the snake instantly turned into a cloud of white powder.

I pushed through several vines in succession, and was surprised to find that there seemed to be a large number of snakes living here, and many of them were large snakes such as the forest python.

Something seemed to come back to my mind, and I remembered that if the twelve ancestors were divided according to the image, they could be divided into snakes or dragons, birds, and tigers. The three animal figures make up the entirety of the Twelve Ancestral Witches. And in this valley, there used to be a large number of snakes, if this was once a rainforest, then there must be birds, otherwise the snakes would have no food, the humid and hot climate of the jungle is very suitable for tigers, and it is a good place to watch the sunrise, if this is the valley of the rising sun, then it represents "Tianwu", and the rainforest can represent Fusang, which is Jumang.

It dawned on me that this was not a public domain, but a meeting place!

I didn't rejoice when I came to this surprising conclusion, because I thought of something terrible. I forced myself to recall the territory of the twelve ancestors - Dijiang in the Tianshan Mountains, Jumang in Fusang in Mexico, Gongzi in England, Qiangliang in the Bering Strait, Tianwu in the Grand Canyon of Colorado, Xuanming, that is, Yuqiang, is the god in the "Great Wilderness North Classic", including Zhurong, Gonggong, and Harvest, all in the ancient Egyptian generation. With so many tribes scattered all over the world, it will inevitably take time for them to come together - the ancients did not live very long, and if they had to meet often, wouldn't they have to be on the road for seven or eight months a year?

Vehicle. The ancients must have had a very developed means of transportation. For example, an enlarged version of the Evil Wheel