XXXVII. Underground Fountain (Ask for Collection Recommendation)
The cracks in the ground were spreading, and even in front of us there was a deep furrow more than half a foot wide. From time to time, there was a loud noise in the direction www.biquge.info of the shrine of Pen & Fun & Pavilion, which seemed to be the sound of sand and gravel falling into the water.
After half an hour, the shaking finally disappeared, and everything was calm, if it weren't for the few deep ditches in front of me, I would have thought I had a big dream.
I was already sweating when I held Cong Shuya's hand, and the flashlight kept shining in the direction of the monkeys, but fortunately, the monkeys didn't seem to dare to come.
"What kind of hobby are you, tying yourselves up. Isn't it a pleasure?" I heard Brother Qiang's voice in my ears, startling me. I turned my head and saw Brother Qiang scanning us with more obscene eyes, and saw a gap in the clothes on Cong Shuya's chest. Although it is tied with a rope so that the spring light does not leak out, it is enough to imagine it.
It seems that I am indeed overly nervous, I don't know that Brother Qiang and the two of them are coming over with flashlights, and my attention is all in the direction of those monkeys.
I hurriedly untied the rope and exhaled, "I thought this place would collapse, but I didn't expect it to be dangerous." Brother Qiang followed Xiao Jiu behind him, and he didn't see the rest of the people. I asked Diao Nan about the whereabouts of a few people, and Brother Qiang also said that they were all separated after being besieged by monkeys. Brother Qiang also has a lot of wounds on his body, and it seems that the battle situation is extremely tragic. But Cong Shuya and I got through it safely.
"Why do you want to tie yourself to the stone pillar?" Xiao Jiu looked at us curiously, and his eyes became evil when he saw us, I think about it, although Cong Shuya did not have a wide open chest, but the clothes were not torn, I said to Brother Qiang, "Take out a piece of clothing." ”
I was already wearing all my clothes, and I had already changed my clothes when I took off my pants and dived. Brother Qiang knew what I meant, took out a piece of clothing and handed it to me, I opened the vacuum package, and moved the gloves on Cong Shuya.
"Go and see the shrine. "I pulled Cong Shuya and walked along the deep ditch. Brother Qiang didn't know that I had caused the movement just now, and naturally he didn't know about the shrine, so I explained to them that I had walked to the shrine.
The statue of the Daoyan monk in the shrine has been shattered, and I kicked it, and it was simply an ordinary stone. The fluorescence I saw before was gone, but a hole appeared under the shrine. I estimate the previous height, the shrine has obviously risen a lot, or the earth shook and the gravel under his feet sank a lot. The dragon-like ravines on the ground were so black that there was no bottom in sight.
The entrance to the cave is not large, and it can only accommodate two people walking side by side. There is no lighting underneath at all, and the fluorescence is dazzlingly bright.
"The fluorescence on the statue must have been reflected from the ground, and I don't know where the hole leads. "Cong Shuya is exactly the same as I am. I took the goggles and looked at them, nothing out of the ordinary, it seemed that the goggles were only useful in the blood pool hell, and then they didn't have much use.
Brother Qiang also felt that he was careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, so he put on the diving goggles. "How much manpower was used to build this place, why is it so big, I have never heard of anyone fighting like this. Xiao Jiu obviously had a look of insight.
Cong Shuya glanced at it a few times and said, "We have been wandering around the periphery, I analyze that it is very likely that we have gone the wrong way, at first the place we entered should belong to the core range, and now we are going farther and farther." ”
Beneath the entrance of the cave was a platform, about two meters high, and I jumped down to see a stone cave carved in the cracks in the stone, which did not look like a tomb at all. There was no lighting in the cave, and it was still a strange and dazzling fluorescence.
"Clever, listen. There is the sound of water in front. "Actually, I heard it too, but don't pour a soup chicken in the water, it's cold and dangerous. I felt a little strange under my feet, and when I looked down, it was a stone crevice, and it was dark under the stone crevice, and I turned on the flashlight to shine it down, and faintly saw the traces of the water.
"We're supposed to be on top of the underground river, and it looks like it's going upstream. "I can tell clearly, we are actually going back from another road, is it really as Cong Shuya said, we have been on the periphery of the ancient tomb, this road is the passage to where? And the temperature in this cave is obviously very high, in order to resist the cold, we put on all our clothes, and at this time it is so hot that we are covered with sweat.
Brother Qiang rushed to the front and walked very fast all the way. Suddenly, he stopped, and stretched out his hand to beckon us to hurry over.
"Oh my God, there's a fountain here. It's so beautiful. Cong Shuya exclaimed. Indeed, it is like a paradise, in a huge cave with this steaming spring gushing below. The water gushes out of the water two or three meters high, and the spring water is amazing. At the thickest spring, a huge wheel slowly rotated with the current, and the chains clicked as if they were pulling a mechanism. In one corner, a pile of yellow, crystalline material was piled up there to form a small mountain, the only color I saw when I entered it other than fluorescence. The surrounding stone walls are carved with all kinds of birds and animals, portraits, and they are not clear under the fluorescence, but there is a vivid feeling.
Brother Qiang smiled, "You see that pile of things doesn't look like a pile of gold, if there really is such a pile, it will take a few lifetimes." ”
"Do you smell anything?" I wondered how there was a strong smell of sulfur here. Cong Shuya explained that many hot springs will smell of sulfur, so there's no fuss about it. And that golden heap is brimstone.
A few stout chains, from the hole where we were, connected to another stone wall, which had several passages. "This is obviously a mechanism, but it's a pity that the bear's paw is not here, I guess he can understand it at a glance. Cong Shuya only remembered Diao Nan when she needed it. But obviously we can't afford to wait here.
"Then which hole do you say we drill?" I asked Cong Shuya back, once again pinning my hopes on the woman's intuition.
"I don't dare to say that, maybe there's something in there. "It's completely different here than it is outside, and no one can make random decisions. If you don't get it right, you will most likely die here.
"There seems to be words there, I'll go and see. Xiao Jiu pointed to a stone cave, pulled the chain a few times to verify the sturdiness and crawled forward.
Xiao Jiu went over and seemed to study it, and then climbed into the hole and looked inside. After a while, he showed his head and shouted at us, "This is it, someone has been here, it should be the Yu family." There are quite a few skeletons in it. ”
"How many people are there in the Yu family of the Cong family? Brother Qiang couldn't help but tease Cong Shuya.
I felt that I had entered the bathhouse, and the water vapor was very strong, "Brother Qiang, why don't we strip naked and take a hot bath?" "I feel like I can already roll ash on my face, because my body is sticky and uncomfortable because of sweating, and it feels absolutely good to take a shower and lie down comfortably to sleep.
"You put your hooves in and see if you can peel off the skin. Brother Qiang glanced down and cautiously continued to climb forward.
Halfway through the climb, Cong Shuya looked at the wheel that kept rotating with the fountain, "This must be the place where the mechanism is wound, do we need to destroy it?" ”
Climbing into the hole on the opposite side, everything became dim, and with the fluorescence behind him, he couldn't see clearly, Brother Qiang unscrewed the miner's lamp, "Fuck, is this a burial pit? ”
What appeared in front of us was piles of bones, neatly stacked on one side like a pile of firewood. Murals, sculptures began to appear in the cave. Cong Shuya and the others also smiled, and the sight of the mural proved that we were not far from the core.
Brother Qiang has never been interested in these things, but he picked up those bones, and from time to time took out something from them and asked Xiao Jiu if it was worth anything, "These people are too poor, don't you know the truth that the poor are rich?"
"What is this Daoyan monk, what do you think he is doing?" Cong Shuya stared at a mural and asked me, I turned my head, the mural depicted Dao Yan carrying the Nine Souls in his hand, standing very arrogantly beside an emperor, but that emperor was very respectful to him. The background of the whole painting turned out to be the mountain we are on.
"Is this paint off? You see how it's so weird. Cong Shuya pointed to one of the emperor's hands, I didn't care before that I thought the emperor was holding a piece of jade in his hand, but after looking closely, I realized that the emperor's hand was actually the color of a jade corpse.
I reached out and touched it, and the whole painting was very flat, there was no sign of damage, and it was impossible to lose color, so the reason was that the original painter depicted it in this way.
Brother Qiang took the trouble to say this and that to Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu was already very bored, turned his head to see that we were studying the murals, walked over and touched it, interjected and said, "This is not a painting of the Ming Dynasty, this is a modern one." ”
"Tell me, how do you know? This painting was painted by your second uncle's aunt and grandmother?"
Xiao Jiu touched it again and said with great certainty, "These things are painted with modern paints, which are those used in oil painting." Xiao Jiu said that he had studied oil painting when he was a child, and he was sure that it was not something from the Ming Dynasty.
"Whose fight is this?" Brother Qiang suddenly asked us all confused, not many years after Concubine Quan's death, the most likely one is Yongle Emperor Zhu Di, but this is not absolutely certain.
"It should be Zhu Di's, but his son doesn't seem to have been the emperor for long. His son's may not be the same. "Although Cong Shuya doesn't know much, she is from a family of tomb robbers after all, and she knows a lot more than we know.
I looked at the mural repeatedly, but I couldn't see why I said, "It doesn't matter who paints it, who loves whom." It has little to do with our fight. As for who is really important, we are not related to him. ”
But the next mural turned out to be a picture of hell, and the terrifying pictures are simply indescribable and tragic.
Brother Qiang dragged me, pointed to a place not far in front of me, and said, "Why do I think there is someone there." "I shone my flashlight and didn't see anything. Brother Qiang touched his head embarrassedly, but the moment I turned my head, I found a corner and revealed a corner of my clothes.
Brother Qiang naturally saw it, and said to me softly, "I'll go over and take a look." ”