Chapter 517: The Ancient Monument of the Snake Worshippers
Looking at the entire mural, Song Xing already had some kind of guess in his heart about the snake worshipper stele.
In ancient times, perhaps among the snake worshippers, there were two kinds of god worship, the Quetzalcoatl God and the mysterious ancient god behind the green tomb.
This has also led to the fact that the snake worshippers are actually divided into different camps.
And the secret that Quetzalcoatl revealed through the snake girl is clearly used to deal with the ancient gods behind the green tomb.
Song Xing looked at the huge mural in front of him, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this was the snake worshipper who had put it here to warn future generations, so that future generations would know the secret on the stone tablet, and never hit the idea of the stone tablet.
"Master Song, shall we go down?"
Seeing the content on the mural, Wang Fatzi and the others were also a little frightened.
The frescoes you see along the way are all telling the horror of the stone stele, and the closer you get to the temple, the more real the solemn and terrifying feeling becomes, as if in the temple, there is really a terrifying monster suppressed.
Song Xing smiled: "Don't you want to know the secret that can scare people to death at a glance?" ”
Wang Fatzi's smile was a little reluctant: "Although I am bold, I have never been curious. ”
Hu Bayi was not as timid as Wang Fatzi, but he also did not show his curiosity about the temple, after all, in this 10,000-meter-deep underground, he had seen too many strange behaviors along the way.
is like the Devonian relic before, if it weren't for Song Xing's vigilance, the group would have been planted there directly.
The instincts honed over the years of life and death made him feel that the greatest horror under this underground might be under this temple.
"In that case, then you should stay outside."
At this point, it is imperative to go underground in the temple, and he came to the ruins of the snake worshippers to find the ancient gods, in order to seize the divine power or curse power of the ancient gods, and integrate them into his body to eliminate the imprint brought by the Lishan girl.
If he can't accomplish this in this world, then when he leaves this world, what awaits him may be endless horror.
So, he didn't have a choice.
Seeing that Song Xing's mind had been decided, Wang Fatzi hurriedly changed his words and said: "Master Song, you also underestimate my fat man, let Commander Hu and Staff Officer Yang stay here, and Lao Sun and I will accompany you on a trip." ”
He thought that there might be an endless crisis below, so he brought Professor Sun, who had always been unpleasant, with him, wanting to leave the vitality to Hu and Yang.
Hu Bayi naturally knew Wang Fatzi's kindness, but he didn't receive his kindness, "Commander Wang, what are you talking about, are we greedy for life and afraid of death?" If Song Ye wants to go down, then naturally they will go down together. ”
He thought very clearly, with Song Xing's force, if he said who was most likely to get out alive in this 10,000-meter abyss, it was him, and if he wanted to get out of the abyss alive at this moment, he could only rely on Song Xing.
The temple is like a hole, and the passage inside is blocked by heavy boulders, which seems to prevent people from outside from entering, and it seems to prevent the contents from coming out.
The Nine Deaths Tomb Armor easily carved an entrance into the rock, and the group passed through several layers of rock walls through the gap and entered a stone hall, and the passage continued to extend downward on the opposite side of the stone hall.
What everyone saw on the stone wall was a relief of a snake worshipper with a strange shape, and countless human figures in the relief were lined up in a procession, moving sideways, and the face was facing the same trend as the passage.
On the ground, there are many clay pots, covered with black rock sand, which burst at the touch of a button, revealing the dried corpses sitting in them, as well as a large number of gold and jade vessels, many of which are decorated with ancient ornaments such as birds, turtles, cicadas, and fish.
Walk through the stone hall into the passage, and in the depths there is a large hall similar to the previous one, and then go down a hundred steps through the passage, climb over a few black rocks blocking the way, and enter the third level of the main hall under the entrance of the temple.
The terrain is vertically subsided, it is the deepest empty magma chamber in the belly of the mountain, among which a stone beam of more than 100 meters long can pass through, the end is flat and the huge rock plate stands on the wall, it is rectangular, the width and height are about tens of meters, the stone face is lush, the stone grain is mottled, it is full of cracks of different shades, and there are strange beasts carved around.
Song Xing took a deep breath and realized that the huge stone tablet that appeared in front of him was the one shown in the snake worshipper murals, which could scare the living to death!
At this moment, no matter whether the rumors were true or not, even Song Xing didn't dare to look directly at the stone monument in front of him easily, just looked at the vicinity of the stone monument with his spare eyes.
The stele is a huge stone slab carved with dragon seals, each word has the size of a rice bucket, resembling the traces of insects and fishes, and it is also different from the stele carried by the steles in later generations.
It is carved from a flat boulder underground, and although it is decorated with animal reliefs around it, the original shape of the rock slab as a whole has not been trimmed, and it looks thick and clumsy.
Because the inscription is carved so deeply, it looks like a dense depression from a distance, and time and dust have not worn them away, and from their perspective, there is a suffocating sense of oppression.
"Since the mural says the secret on the stele, you will die if you look at it, for the sake of conservatism, let's not stare at the stele first." Song Xing reminded him.
In fact, there is no need for him to say that among the few people at this moment, even Professor Sun, who wants to know the secrets of the ancient monument the most, did not dare to look at the stele, for fear that one would accidentally see the secret on the stele and go directly to God.
Song Xing pressed his divine consciousness in his body, and even the five ghosts took it back, not daring to peek at the whole picture of the stone tablet from any angle.
The ancient gods sacrificed by the snake worshippers were different from any of the Yanhuang gods he knew, perhaps even more ancient, even creatures that existed when the earth first opened, or some great existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, in short, all kinds of weirdness, not careless at all.
The artificial light source that was originally suspended above his head was also infinitely compressed by him, forming an extremely small light source, and after instructing Hu Bayi and the others not to look up, he restrained all his distractions, slowly raised his head, and let the light source concentrate on a small piece of the huge stone tablet.
To be precise, it is the position of the first word in the upper left corner of the stele.
Judging from the mural, the secret that the snake worshippers heard from the mouth of the snake girl was held by several snake worshippers respectively, which means that only knowing a part of this secret will not lead to death.
That's why Song Xingcai had the courage to peek at the first text on the stele.
Song Xing looked at the stone tablet of the snake worshippers with a hanging heart, and after a while, he didn't notice anything abnormal, and it seemed that it was expected, so he asked a few other people to look up as well.
According to Professor Sun's research on the dragon seal of the Xia Dynasty, the secret of the snake worshippers is actually very simple, which is the permutation and combination of nine ancient seal characters.
At this moment, what they saw was the first character of the nine ancient seals, and it did not trigger the secret of instant death on the stone tablet.
But down the beam, the first column on the stele is full of the same ancient seal, obviously these nine words are on the stele, carved countless lines, all over the stele, as long as it is around the stele, open your eyes, you can see the complete nine-character ancient seal from any angle.
Professor Sun was proficient in the dragon seal of the Xia Dynasty, and when he saw this ancient seal, it didn't take long for him to recognize that this character was actually a symbol representing numbers, which means zero in modern characters.
"Zero? Arabic numeral? Song Xing looked at Professor Sun, a little puzzled.
Professor Sun explained: "Arabic numerals are my synonym, which was naturally not available in ancient times, but they generally mean the same, they are some kind of symbols representing numbers. ”
"You mean, the secret that the descendants of the snake have been chasing all their lives, the secrets that can't be seen, remembered, or even thought about, are a set of numbers?" Song Xing felt a little incredible.
Professor Sun was also puzzled, but at the same time expressed confidence in his own knowledge, the first ancient seal he deciphered, absolutely zero meaning, in the snake worship ancient seal this is a symbol of nothingness.
In order to judge that he was correct, Professor Sun had the courage to illuminate the second handwriting for Song Xing, and after deciphering it, it was indeed a nine-character symbol.
"Zero nine. The ultimate secret that snake worshippers can kill all living beings is a set of numbers? ”
Song Xing also felt a little confused in his mind at this time, the end of the universe, could it be mathematics?
"Leave the stele first and see if there are any clues around."
The inexplicable feeling of depression on the stone tablet made Professor Sun and the others feel extremely uncomfortable, and Song Xing also saw this, so he retreated with everyone.
However, just as they retreated, a violent explosion suddenly sounded from the stone monument, and the stone monument, which was originally as large as a mountain, shook with a burst of mountains, and half of it collapsed, turning into countless broken rocks.
In the firelight, Professor Sun clearly saw that not far from the stele, a man wearing an ancient costume of the Warring States period and a bronze mask was wearing a bronze mask, and behind the mask only a pair of lifeless, dead-like eyes were staring straight at him.
Professor Sun's face changed, and he blurted out: "Green grave!" ”
(End of chapter)