Chapter 244 The Underground Palace Stone Gate
Wang An hurriedly dodged out of the cave.
The shaking of the mountain beneath his feet lasted no more than ten seconds before it stopped, some rocks tumbled down the mountain, a few trees fell, and there was no other dramatic effect.
He stood on the mountain for a while, and was about to enter the cave again after finding that the earthquake had not continued, when he suddenly saw a faint light in the valley not far away, which was very faint.
"What's that?"
Wang An disappeared from the mountain at once, his figure flashed a few times in the mountain, and soon came to the place where the light came from.
The light came out of the ground, and a crack appeared on the ground, no more than twenty centimeters wide, and the light was slightly green, more than ten meters deep underground, and then the glow, Wang An saw two white bones.
"This is, the catacombs?"
Wang An looked at the surrounding terrain and could faintly see several incomplete petroglyphs on a crumbling mountain rock next to him.
He went closer to take a closer look, because the stone was broken, so the picture was also incomplete, but he could generally see that some people were worshipping something, and there were some stairs facing up in the picture.
Wang An walked forward along the curved crack, and found that there seemed to be a faint passage under the crack, and he didn't know where it leads.
He walked along the crack for nearly two hundred meters, and the crack disappeared, and he looked up at a towering mountain in front of him.
"I'll take a closer look when it's dawn tomorrow." Although his current eyesight is not much different from day and night, he decided to wait until dawn.
He waited peacefully in the mountains all night. The rest of the people in the mountains were terrified, and they were all terrified.
"Damn, what's going on, is there an earthquake?"
"Don't make a fuss, there are occasional earthquakes in Beiyi Mountain on weekdays, and the frequency of earthquakes here is much higher than in other places."
"Really, this is normal?"
"Yes, normal."
"If your legs don't shake like a vibrating sieve, I'll almost believe it!"
As he spoke, a stone rolled down from the top of the mountain.
"Be careful, get out of the way!"
The other team was no better, and hurriedly found an open place to hide, but where to find an open place in the middle of the mountain forest? Fortunately, the earthquake was very short and not very strong.
"Whew, a false alarm."
"Why did this suddenly happen?"
"Beiyi Mountain is an earthquake-prone area."
"Well, you say, could this earthquake be caused by some human factor?"
"What do you mean by human factors?"
"Somebody blew something up with explosives and it caused an earthquake."
"But we didn't hear the explosion?"
"Maybe the explosion was underground, or it was hidden in a cave."
"Whatever the reason, be alert tonight."
Both teams didn't sleep that night, for fear of another earthquake.
As soon as it was dawn the next morning, Wang An was ready to start.
He wanted to go underground to take a look, but the cracks in the ground were very narrow, and they looked like they were only twenty or thirty centimeters.
Wang An picked up his true qi, slapped his palm hard, and with a bang, the ground sank into a big pit.
Then he sank more than a meter deep at once, and then used a pair of palms to open a way underground.
Under the blessing of true qi, Wang An easily broke through the hard ground with the palms of his two hands, shattering the underground rocks, the more downward, the wider the cracks in the ground, and after going down four or five meters, it could vaguely allow one person to pass through.
Wang An looked at the cracks on both sides, and there were some hard rocks.
As he descended, he reached a depth of more than ten meters before his feet touched the ground, and here he actually saw stone stairs. It's just these steps
The ladder is incomplete, or broken, or broken, and scattered.
Looking at these steps, Wang An thought of the petroglyphs he had seen on those crumbling mountain rocks last night.
Those who worship, the staircase that leads to the heights.
But now the staircase has sunk into the ground, and it has completely collapsed.
Where does this staircase lead? Wang An thought of the painting recorded in the man's diary, the glowing door.
"Will it lead to the fabled abode of the immortals?"
Underground, Wang An walked in the direction of the broken stone steps, and on both sides were mountains and rocks piled together, large and small, and suddenly Wang An stopped.
He saw two skeletons, but only a part of the body could be seen, and some of them were supposed to be crushed into the rocks, looking like they were buried in the ground.
Moving on, he found skeletons one after another, almost none of them were intact, they were all pressed in the rocks, and the clothes they were wearing were a little strange.
"Sacrifice, earthquake?" Wang An suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Did these people encounter an earthquake during some kind of sacrificial event, and they were crushed to death before they had time to escape? The garments they wore were probably sacrificial garments."
Wang An was looking for a way forward along the broken stone steps, and suddenly the road ahead was broken, and it was cut off by a rock with no edge in sight.
If the road is gone, then reopen the road, and there is no road underground.
Wang An took a breath, raised his palm, King Kong patted the case, and with all his palm, he landed on this boulder.
The strength rises from under the feet, driving the strength of the whole body to converge upward. True Qi gushes out from the sea of qi and travels all the way up the meridians.
They meet from the shoulders, come together, and go hand in hand, like fire meets fuel, exerting amazing power.
Slap your palm on the boulder.
King Kong Shooting,
The moment his palm came into contact with the stone, the part of the rock that came into contact with his palm immediately shattered, and his palm sank into the rock, and almost at the same time, dozens of cracks spread rapidly in all directions centered on the place where his hand had sunk, and cobwebs were generally covered with the entire rock.
The sound of clicking and cracking kept coming from the inside of the rock. With a bang, this side of the mountain rock directly shattered, and then collapsed.
Behind the rocks, a winding passage leads in an unknown direction, and some crumbling stone steps can be seen below. He walked all the way down the stone steps, and the further he went, the more the stone steps went down, as if leading to the depths of the earth.
"Could it be that the stone steps in the painting on the rock outside point to the ground, not to the top?"
On the ground, in the mountains and forests, the two teams of people did not rest well all night, shuttling through the jungle, and they were still searching separately.
"Boss, there shouldn't be another earthquake today, right?"
"It's hard to say."
"Then let's withdraw, although this money is given a lot, we have to have a life to spend it!"
"The money is in my hand, how can I spit out the meat in my mouth, and besides, how coincidental is it, there was an earthquake just last night, and it came again today?"
"That's hard to say."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a muffled boom, and the ground under the feet of several people shook for a while.
"Hold the grass, isn't it! It's really coming!"
"Crow's beak!"
Another team in the mountains had climbed high on a mountain ridge and stood high to see far away.
"Captain, it's really you, there was an earthquake just last night, and today you led us to climb to the top of the mountain, and we won't have a place to run in case of an earthquake."
"Stand tall and see far."
"Well, I think standing tall is dying fast!"
"Crow's mouth, what are you talking about?!" A teammate on the side immediately scolded.
"Phew, Bah, Bah, I was wrong!"
As soon as he said this, the mountain shook.
"Hold the grass, isn't it?"
The men hurriedly lay on the ground, but after a few seconds they regained their composure.
"Captain, I think so......
"You're not allowed to say a word from now on, do you hear?"
Uh-huh!
Underground, Wang An went all the way forward, all the way down, the air here was a little dull, and there were no cracks at all on the top of his head, Wang An roughly estimated that he was now close to twenty meters underground.
If there were another earthquake now, if there was a collapse on both sides, he would be buried inside.
Wang An stopped, and a relatively empty place appeared in front of him, because there were several inclined stone pillars in the ground to support the surroundings, and the stairs under his feet began to become continuous.
Within three or two steps of the stone steps, you can see several corpses. This feels more like a way to a tomb somewhere.
After walking some distance further, an unfathomable ravine lay in front of him, seven or eight meters wide, diagonally opposite, and below the stone wall were two doors.
The two doors looked exactly like those in the diary.
"Really?!"
Originally, Wang An's purpose in coming to this Beiyi Mountain was to lure out the people behind the last incident in the capital, that is, to take a turn and make some movements, as bait, but he didn't expect to find this kind of thing in this mountain.
Wang An's figure swept through the unfathomable ravine in a flash, and came to the front of these two doors.
In front of the gate was a large altar, which was also covered with cracks, and there were some white bones of animals, which seemed to be used for sacrifice.
Wang An walked through the altar and came to the front of the gate, which was covered with some strange runes. There is also a toppled stone tablet on the side, on which some ancient characters are recorded.
"What's behind this?"
Wang An stretched out his hand and tried it, the stone gate was very heavy, but it was not unbreakable.
He looked at the two doors and did not use his own strength to break open the stone doors. He used his mobile phone to take pictures of the stone gate, stone stele, and altar, and then looked around.
He turned and came to the bottomless ravine, and looked down.
The endless abyss, the darkness of the rash, seemed to open a wide jaw, trying to swallow everything that came close.
Wang An turned to look at the two doors again, and then stepped across the ravine, and left along the way he came, but when he returned, he moved several rocks and resealed the road to the stone gate.
When he came out of the ground, he shook the ground with another palm, completely sealing the way in.
He wasn't sure what was behind the two stone doors, maybe it was an immortal, maybe it was something bad, he always felt that the latter was more likely.
"It's almost time to go back."
Wang An secretly found two teams on the way back and quietly added photos to them.
While the two teams were still searching hard in the mountains, Wang An had already embarked on the way back.
When he went back, he was quiet, he set out from Beiyi Mountain in the morning, returned to the mountain village that night, and got up early in the morning just in time for breakfast, and the speed was so fast.
Seeing Wang An come back, Xu Qi told him about the progress of the investigation.
"All I can find now are some small shrimps, these people are very careful, and the clues are broken when they reach one place."
"This can be regarded as a catch, you can only catch big fish by putting a long line, and I have another bait here." Wang An told Xu Qi about his discovery at the foot of Beiyi Mountain. Xu Qi was directly stunned after hearing this.
"How does this, what the gentleman said sound so similar to the stone gate of the Burial Immortal Valley?!" He couldn't help but exclaim.
At the end of the depths of the Burial Immortal Valley is also a stone door, and the stone door has been opened, but no one knows what is inside.
"Maybe there is some kind of connection between them, after all, they are all in the land of Xiqiang, and I have brought back the photos, some ancient characters and symbols on them
, you find an expert to break it."
"Okay."
"This bait should attract a lot of people."
"Didn't the gentleman go in and have a look?" Xu Qi asked curiously.
"I thought about it, but I held back."
"Why, maybe there really are immortals in it?"
"Immortals, what are immortals, and what if you see them? I have my own path now, which suits me best. And I have a faint hunch that there may be something bad in there, how is Lei Hai doing these days?"
"It's good, it's getting better every day." Xu Qi said, this is what makes him happiest. The wound of his friend has been a knot in his heart all these years.
The day after Wang An returned, Xu Qi left the mountain village and went to the capital. During the time that Wang An left, while secretly inquiring about the news, he took care of Lei Hai in the mountain village, and Lu Xiangyi in the capital kept watching.
"What, the stone gate underground?" Listening to Xu Qi's relay, Lu Xiangyi was also stunned.
"This, this shouldn't have something to do with the Burial Immortal Valley, right?"
"Perhaps, I'll have to find someone to decipher the words and symbols on the photos that my husband brought back."
"What do you think will be behind the stone gate?"
"I don't know, Mr. didn't go in, he said there might be something bad behind it."
"Maybe it's just an ancient tomb?"
"Perhaps."
On the same day, Xu Qi contacted an expert in related fields for advice.
"So, where did you get these pictures?" The expert was very surprised when he saw the photos Xu Qi had shown him.
"This is Tangut, or Tangut." The expert pointed to the stele and said.
"As for these two doors, the symbols on them look like things from the pre-Qin period, and I have to study what they are."